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4. ” Coercion Cannot Change People’s Hearts “
Ms. Chen Yali, 32, a college graduate, suffered from brutal torture and humiliation.
In September 2000, Shi Yingbai, who was in charge of the persecution against
Falun Gong locally, chose to make an example of Chen and force her into giving
up her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. They applied huge pressure
to her in various obscene ways such as using her relatives to pressure her,
isolating her, and trying to brainwash her with the help of collaborators [former
Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to brainwashing and torture]
24 hours a day. They kept on reading her materials compiled to defame Dafa,
and did not allow Chen to take one step out of her room. She was watched even
while using the bathroom. Chen was not allowed to contact other Dafa practitioners
for a long time.
Dafa practitioners’ hands were cuffed from behind, and then they were hung
up from the handcuffs. Determined Dafa practitioners were detained in mini-cells.
Police officers claimed: “If you are not ‘transformed,’ you will be detained
here forever.”
Under such huge mental and physical pressure, Chen Yali wrote a “guarantee
letter.” But in her heart she felt so sorry for having done that, and asked
Shi Yingbai and Zhangbin to return the guarantee letter–but at that time Shi
and Zhang refused to do so. In January 2001, Chen Yali went on a huger strike
to appeal. At first Shi simply ignored her. On the eighth day of her hunger
strike, brigade leader Lin Shunying tricked Chen into going to the hospital
by telling Chen that Shi wanted to talk to her. On the 11th day of her hunger
strike, Chen Yali fainted and fell to the ground, injuring the corner of her
eye. Her pulse and blood pressure were very weak. Because of her determination,
the guarantee letter was returned to Chen and she tore it to pieces. After coming
back to the brigade from the hospital, Chen talked with and wrote letters to
the camp head and the brigade head to ask them to return her Dafa books, but
they ignored her requests. With no better choice, Chen Yali started another
hunger strike. Dafa practitioners in the same group as Chen also asked for the
return of their Dafa books. By the 8th day of Chen’s hunger strike, she was
emaciated and dying. Dafa practitioners in the Old-Group 3 realized that all
Dafa practitioners should be one body. When one Dafa practitioner is persecuted,
the others cannot just sit by idly. The persecution of one Dafa practitioner
is targeted at all of us. So on March 8, 2003, 14 Dafa practitioners at the
Old-Group 3 went on a hunger strike together to support Chen Yali and to resist
the evil together.
On March 9, 2001, Shi Yingbai ordered all policemen in the camp to surround
the Old-Group 3. Police officer Wu Jinying tried to pull Chen Yali from the
room, but Chen resisted with all her strength. Another policeman twisted her
arms behind her back and forced her out of the room. While struggling, Chen
fell down to the ground and was carried away to the hospital by several policemen.
Shi Yingbai cursed Dafa and lied, saying that Chen intended to commit suicide.
One Dafa practitioner stood up to the police officer’s wrongdoing. She was cursed
and dragged from the room, slapped in the face, and had her head slammed into
the wall by her hair. It caused dizziness and a big lump on her head. She was
then sent to a mini-cell. Zhao Yayun was tortured for saying “Falun Dafa
is Good!”, and then locked up in a mini-cell with her mouth taped. She
was tortured again and then shackled to a steel chair. Liu Dongyun and Pan Xuanhua
were punched for trying to stop the policemen from beating people. All 14 Dafa
practitioners in the Old-Group 3 were locked up in mini-cells for one month.
After being sent to the hospital, Chen Yali’s health declined daily; she became
thinner and thinner. Ignoring her weak condition, the Wanjia Hospital force-fed
her. But Chen resisted and did not give up. On the 22nd day of Chen Yali’s hunger
strike, Shi Yingbai talked to her, and apologized by kneeling down in front
of her. Chen Yali defended the dignity of Dafa practitioners with her life.
On October 29, 2001, Chen Yali was released. She insisted on getting back her
Dafa books before she left, but was forcibly removed from the camp by police
officers.
5. Resisting Evil with Determination
On June 18, 2001, a meeting of Term Extension and Reduction was held at the
Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. Lu Zhenshan, the Camp head, said at the meeting: “If
you are transformed, then, you are transformed; if you are not yet transformed,
you will be, by force.” So another insane series of organized abuse of
Dafa practitioners began. There were about 300 police officers on site, and
some of them were helmeted anti-riot police. They carried electric batons and
handcuffs, Sam Browne belts at their waists, and stood all around Dafa practitioners.
The meeting place was very quiet and intimidating. 20 Dafa practitioners, each
with their hands cuffed behind their backs and held by one policeman and one
policewoman at either side, were forced to stand in front of a platform, where
they were declared to have their terms extended for one year. Others’ terms
were extended either three months or half a year. These extensions were decided
by the Camp, without any other legal procedures required. Shi Yingbai cursed
Dafa and Dafa’s founder. Shi incorrectly pronounced Xu Lihua’s name. Xu gave
the correct pronunciation saying: ” My name is Xu Lihua, Falun Dafa is
the righteous Fa.” She was immediately beaten up by police officer Li Ming,
dragged from the second floor to the first floor by her feet, and was beaten
until she had bruises all over her face. The soft tissue under her breasts was
injured, and she could not sleep because of the pain. In the later part of the
meeting, the atmosphere was even more tense. Anti-riot police walked back and
forth while collaborators defamed Dafa on the stage. Yang Xiuli immediately
stood up to stop them. Chen Yali, Gao Shuyan, Zuo Xiuyun, Wang Fang, Zhao Yayun
also stood up and said: “Falun Dafa is righteous!” They were beaten.
Gao Shuyan was knocked down by policemen and fainted. After the meeting, 17
Dafa practitioners, including 8 from the Old-Group 3 were detained in mini-cells,
and were forced to stand up for a long time. A new round of forced “transformation”
started.
Beginning June 19, 2001, 15 Dafa practitioners were brutally beaten up one
by one by male and female police officers. Zuo Xiuyun was unable to breathe
after the beating. Chen Yali, Zhao Yayun, and Wang Fang were all hit in the
heart area with electric batons. They were hung up with both hands tied behind
their backs with both feet off the floor. No shoes were allowed. As time went
on, the rope became tighter and tighter, and they were raised up higher and
higher. The bitter heart-wrenching pain in their arms was unbearable. No sleeping,
no talking, no using the bathroom was allowed. Some urinated in their trousers.
When Zhu Chunrong spoke out for Falun Gong, Wu Baoyun immediately started slapping
her hard in the face with a shoe until her nose and face were bleeding. Then
Zhu’s mouth was taped. Police officers and the thugs hit Dafa practitioners’
chests around the area of the heart, on their heads, and other parts of their
bodies with electric batons. Li Ming beat up Dafa practitioner Pan Xuanhua several
times, leaving Pan with loose teeth and vomiting blood. Li Ming pushed against
Pan’s back with all his strength, which caused Pan to cry out from the pain;
then Li hit Pan with an electric baton. Seeing that she was still determined,
he hung Pan up on a bamboo rod. Pan’s hands were tied so tightly and for so
long that they turned dark blue in color. Some of the Dafa practitioners sweated
heavily because of the torture. Some vomited continuously, some experienced
swelling all over their bodies and some of them had arms that went numb.
Yang Xiuli asked to use the bathroom several times but was not allowed to,
then urinated on the ground because she lost control. Enraged, Quan Minghao
and several other thugs pressed her to the ground to wipe up the urine with
her body. Still not satisfied, Wu Baoyun hit Yang Xiuli’s face, head and body
randomly with a mop soaked with urine. The inhumane Li Ming pinched Yang between
the legs, and then grabbing Yang by the hair, banged her head on a radiator.
The painful crying and the hatchet men’s cursing and sneering filled the cell.
It was truly a hell on earth. Shi Yingbai, and the head of the police, Wu Jinying
both came to the cell to instigate those thugs. Liu Lun said ferociously: “No
one will care even if we kill you. Even those male criminals were scared of
us, let alone you people!”
Seeing that Chen Yali still did not renounce her faith, they used the most
vicious methods to torture her. Li Ming tortured her in various ways: he pinched
and stretched Chen’s body, then pressed Chen to a wall to crush her, then dug
into her ribs one by one with his fingers, then pinched her armpits and ribs
forcefully. Chen struggled painfully. Li Ming brutally pinched her nipples.
Chen Yali tried to stop him with a stern rebuke, but Li became more enraged
and slapped her face. Chen resisted twice, but was slapped on the face twice
until she quivered. Hours later, Shi Yingbai came to the mini-cell, Chen told
him: “I have been hung up for 20 hours already. You are breaking the law,
put me down!” Shi was unconcerned.
Quan Minghao stated many times: “If you do not write a guarantee right
now, you will be sent to the Intensive Training Group and be supervised by male
guards and male criminals.” Could the tragedy that happened to the 18 female
Dafa practitioners in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp who were thrown into the
male cells be happening again? The forced transformation happened not only in
the mini-cells, but also in big groups. On June 19, 2001, Sun Xiuqin, the head
guard of the Old-Group 3 said: “You all should be well behaved. Don’t let
yourself be sent to the Intensive Training Group.” On June 20, the guards
brought some ‘guarantee papers’ for us to sign. Some Dafa practitioners refused,
and were sent to the mini-cells to be hung up in the “plane style.”
That’s when an atrocity occurred in which Li Xiuqin, Zhang Yulan, and Zhao Yayun
died from brutal torture. This tragedy shocked both Chinese and those abroad.
Four female Dafa practitioners were sent to the male group and were supervised
by policemen and male criminals. Another 8 Dafa practitioners lay there almost
dead and in a mentally confused state suffering from incontinence.
On June 22, the Wanjia camp knew that investigators from the upper Ministry
would come. Afraid that their crimes would be exposed, several doctors, headed
by Song Shaohui and criminals restrained 8 Dafa practitioners on their beds
and injected us with a kind of sedative that caused us to sleep 24 hours a day.
On June 26, 2001, while we were still in a state of confusion with stiff and
numb bodies because of the injection, we were moved back into the mini-cells.
They blocked the passage of any information. They strip searched us and took
away our money. Even buying daily items had to be approved through multiple
levels. Sometimes the money we deposited at the brigade was taken as theirs.
We were not allowed to go outdoors, or be visited by our family members. So
nobody knew where we were or if we were dead or alive. That was in the middle
of summer; the mini-cells were extremely hot, damp and dark, most of us grew
pustules. We appealed many times but got no response. Several Dafa practitioners
went on a hunger strike, but they still ignored us. Among the hunger strikers,
Zhang Guirong went on one for 55 days, and was force-fed by inserted tubes over
100 times. Since the mini-cells were tightly sealed, it was hard for us to breathe.
Pan Xuanhua was so deprived of air that she fainted. To evade the legal sanction
and hide their crimes, instead of punishing the murderers, the Wanjia Forced
Labor Camp used various ways to try to frame us, to confuse the situation, and
coerced us to lie according to their intentions.
On June 26, 2001, a wicked police officer named Liu Lun said: “Are you
still not talking? Do you need me to hang you up with a rope to help you to
recall?” In mid September, Gao Shuyan saw a form entitled “Record
of Gao Shuyan ” at police officer Zhou Jun’s place. One sentence read “If
I fail this time in hanging myself, I will bang my head on the radiator.”
This shows how the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp had framed Dafa practitioners by
lying in order to shirk responsibilities and to defame Dafa. When investigating
the “6.20 “(June 20) tragedy, the special group did not record any
facts about our persecution. They were just cold-hearted, servile followers
of Jiang’s regime who followed the orders of “No one is held responsible
if Falun Gong practitioners are beaten to death, just say they committed suicide.
No investigation is needed, just have them cremated.” They used releasing
us as bait, to coerce us into repeating the lies fabricated by them.
Yu Xiaoyu, who came to investigate the case said: “If you say what we
tell you to say, you will be released. Otherwise, we may release you today and
arrest you again tomorrow.”
Hao Yunzhu was asked to sign a blank piece of paper, but when she went to check
what the police had written on the paper, a police officer snatched the paper
away. On August 28, 2001, the police ordered a TV station and the Wanjia Forced
Labor Camp to make videos of us, trying to create a second “Tiananmen Immolation
Event”. We resisted together. Hao Yunzhu was forcefully taken away by police
officer Li Xiuyun and two criminals, which caused Hao to faint, but they still
took her video forcibly in a mini-cell. In addition to physical torture, they
intensified the mental tortures by using long terms of detention and locking
us up in mini-cells. Chen Yali, Wang Fang, and Han Shaoqin were called in for
a talk and nobody knew where they were taken. Later we found out that Chen Yali
was forced to live with others for 45 days, Wang Fang and Han Shaoqin were sent
to a drug rehabilitation center.
The 13 survivors of the “6.20” (June 20, 2001) tragedy are: Pan Xuanhua,
Zhang Yuhua, Xu Lihua, Wang Fang, Yang Xiuli, Chen Yali, Zuo Xiuyun, Gao Shuyan,
Shao Ying, Sun Jie, Han Shaoqin, Hao Yunzhu. Among them, 11 of their terms were
extended illegally for up to one year. In the above-mentioned mini-cell detainment,
the longest time of detainment of Dafa practitioners was 4 months. We were released
one by one until the end of October. But on the fourth day (November 4, 2001)
after returning home, Zuo Xiuyun was again abducted by the Songjiang Police
Station of Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. The fact that we were released
from the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp was the result of help from Dafa practitioners
and kind-hearted people around the world. The police released us under the pressure.
We are still all in dangerous situations. Zuo Xiuyun’s case is an example. The
survivors of the “6.20” atrocity and all Dafa practitioners in China
want to use this opportunity to show our deep gratitude to all the people who
have upheld justice.
When we left Wanjia, there were still over 300 Falun Gong practitioners illegally
detained there. What is more worrisome is that Dafa practitioners who were detained
in the mini-cells are still being tortured and their lives are in great danger.
The above facts are just a fraction of all that Dafa practitioners have suffered
in China.
Here, all Dafa practitioners in China earnestly hope that the “World Organization
to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong” can uphold justice by helping
the courts to punish the criminals according to the law. We also hope that all
the governments, international organizations, and all kind-hearted people in
the world will help us and stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners
in China.
Home phone number of Shi Yingbai, the former deputy head of the Wanjia Forced
Labor Camp, 86-451-2737856
[clearwisdom.net]
Posting date: 3/May/2003
Original article date: 2/May/2003
Category: News from China
