State-sanctioned “Brainwashing” Employs Systematic
Torture on Falun Gong Practitioners to Force Them to Renounce Beliefs
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Thirty-two-year-old
Ms. Zhu Xia cries, laughs, and often bangs on doors and windows madly. She soils
her clothing uncontrollably, and has frequent hallucinations, tossing and turning
restlessly amidst unseen enemies.
At night Zhu often throws
her arms around her head defensively, screaming “Are you going to rape me?”
She
has removed her blankets to sleep in the cotton fibers of her matress and often
curses “those terrible men,” muttering she “can’t take it anymore.”
This
is not the young woman her family members described as “healthy and vibrant” before
the police took her away because she practices Falun Gong.
Like
hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of others in China, Zhu was detained
by Chinese authorities and sent to brainwashing classes in order to force her
to renounce Falun Gong.
She was held at the Pi County Brainwashing
Center in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province.
On April 2, 2004,
Pi Country authorities released Zhu. According to her family, Zhu’s mental and
physical well-being had been devastated, and she had suffered a complete mental
breakdown.
Zhu is no longer able to take care of herself, and
is under the care of her mother.
The exact details of what Zhu
went through in the Pi Country Brainwashing Center are unknown, although family
members say her mental state and behavior leave little doubt she suffered untold
torture and was repeatedly raped.
Thousands of eye-witnesses
and victims have documented severe and systematic tortures used on Falun Gong
practitioners in order to force them to renounce their beliefs. Such methods include
shocks with electric batons often in senstive areas such as the genitals, anus
and mouth, violent beatings with pipes, burning with hot irons, rape and gang
rape.
At the Dalian forced labor camp, numerous reports say
women detainees have been hung spread-eagle from the ceiling as sticks and pepper
oil are shoved into their vaginas – a torture technique known as “hip-splitting.”
(news)
The men are stripped naked and shocked with electric batons shortly after being
doused with water to intensify the electric currents.
Posting
date: 14/Aug/2004
Original article date: 13/Aug/2004
Category: News from
China
