Shocked with Cattle Prods; Women Tied Spread-eagle, Raped with Mops and Toilet
Brushes
— (FDI) “There Eyewitness “Re-education” Since In Among They After Other Women The 60-year-old 27-year-old Three According Hundreds
“Weifang
officials told Ms. Chen that they had been told by the central government
that 'no measures are too excessive' to wipe out Falun Gong.
The beatings continued and would stop only when Ms. Chen changed her
thinking”
Excerpt from Ian Johnson's Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street
Journal article “A Deadly Exercise”
— In a June 2003 TV program broadcast over state-run media in Dalian City, a
Dalian Forced-labor Camp official, joined by a group of labor camp “educators,”
attests to the aim of “educating” and treating Falun Gong practitioners with “compassion.”
is absolutely no such thing as persecution here,” they tell the TV audience.
accounts from the Dalian Forced-labor Camp, however, detail a different, darker
reality of Jiang Zemin's often brutal, nation-wide campaign to eradicate
Falun Gong by any means necessary.
Torture; Confirmed Deaths amidst the Violence
1999, terror and violence have permeated the Dalian Forced-Labor Camp, as authorities
implement orders to “transform” Falun Gong practitioners.
a report received by the Falun Dafa Information Center in December 2003, eyewitnesses
provided details of 47 cases of torture that occurred from 2000 to May 2003,
and confirmed 6 deaths from torture. The report describes the number of cases
it details as “just the tip of the iceberg.”
the cases are the events that unfolded on the afternoon of March 19, 2001, when
the Vice-President of the labor camp, Zhang Baolin, directed a group of labor
camp personnel in torturing Falun Gong practitioners.
first locked the practitioners in a room and then, one by one, took them to
another room to try to force them to sign a letter renouncing Falun Gong. Those
who refused to do so were shocked with cattle prods and beaten with batons.
Outside, loudspeakers boomed threats against Falun Gong practitioners throughout
the camp. The report says the electric buzz of the cattle prods, the shouting
of the torturers, the screaming of the practitioners combined with the threats
belted out from the loudspeakers covered the camp with a sense of fear and terror.
torturing the practitioners, many were placed in the hallway. They had wounds
all over their bodies. Some of them were shaking or groaning in pain.
cases mentioned in the report include:
Mr. Chu Hui was tortured with beatings and cattle prod shocks from 9pm to
8am the next morning. The torturers used the cattle prods all over his body,
including inserting them into his anus. Chu passed out several times during
the torture.
Cong Wei was stripped naked with his hands tied behind his back, and then
pushed to the ground. An officer placed a chair over him and sat on the chair
with a cattle prod in each hand. Two other officers holding cattle prods in
both of their hands flanked the first officer. Using all 6 cattle prods, the
officers proceeded to shock Cong on sensitive parts of the body. Cong's
body convulsed violently throughout the torture.
Liu Yonglai was tortured in a similar manner to Cong Wei; stripped of his
clothes, gagged with a cloth and thrown to the ground while officers shocked
him with 4-5 cattle prods. They doused Liu with water to intensify the electric
currents, and especially targeted sensitive areas of the body, such as the
genitalia, neck, mouth, etc. The smell of burning flesh filled the room and
both sides of Liu's mouth sustained tear wounds.
Chen Jiafu, a man in his fifties, died from torture in 2001 — one of 6 confirmed
deaths in the labor camp.
Tied Spread-eagle; Raped with Mops, Toilet Brushes
report also provided details of eight women who suffered savage forms of sexual
assault as labor camp authorities sought to “re-educate” them.
Ms. Fu Shuying was tied up spread-eagle, while a torturer violently inserted
a long rod into her vagina causing severe inflammations and infections.
Ms. Chen Hui and 30-year-old Ms. Sun Yan were also tied up in a spread-eagle
position as torturers repeatedly thrust long rods into their vaginas causing
bleeding.
other women suffered similar tortures with chili pepper sauce shoved into their
vaginas causing extreme pain, while in three additional cases toilet and shoe
brushes were used causing severe vaginal bleeding.
to the report, the torturers frequently tell the practitioners “we represent
the government in transforming you” or “it means nothing if you die here.”
of reports from Falun Gong practitioners in China quote police and labor camp
officials saying they are under orders that “no method is too extreme” to force
Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs, and those who are killed
amidst the torture “should be reported as suicides.”
Posting date: 8/Jan/2004
Original article date: 7/Jan/2004
Category: News from China
