Falun Dafa Practitioner Ling Yun in Mainland China
Mr. Song Changguang
was 26 years old and lived at Shuangcheng Village, Biangang Township, Dehui City.
He was in his senior year at Changchun Post and Telecommunications Institute,
majoring in Telecommunications, and was about to graduate. He was arrested in
late 2000 for displaying a banner at Tiananmen Square. During his imprisonment
in the detention center, the police tortured him by putting a toothbrush in between
his fingers and squeezing his fingers together while turning the toothbrush around.
They used this excruciating abuse to force him reveal his address, then sent him
to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp.
After May 2001, because of the extremely
poor hygienic conditions in the labor camp, such as overcrowding, lack of daylight
all year, and foul air, scabies began to spread extensively. Many practitioners
were affected, with severe pain and itching. They suffered sleepless nights, their
whole body festering with scabies, with bloody scars sticking to the clothes and
with hardly any healthy skin left. Even so, the labor camp did not quarantine
anyone. They let it spread and ignored it. In addition, the guards commonly used
the "slapping scabies" torture, consisting of using a hardwood plank
or pieces of plastic to strike the scabies sores. As a result, blood and pus burst
out. It was too horrifying to watch. A drug addict said at that moment, "Beating
is not called beating, it is called ‘curing the scabies.’" In the No. 4 Division
classroom, a wooden square club over ten centimeters thick was used as a tool
for "slapping scabies." The club was saturated with blood, which was
used to repeatedly strike the scabies.
Until July and August 2001, scabies
had afflicted many practitioners. The scabies caused several to become emaciated
and some even were near death. Song Changguang was one of the most severely affected
by scabies in the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp. His scabies spread all over his body,
the damaged skin reaching as high as 60%. In the beginning his body was covered
with blisters, but after the guards brutally subjected him to the "slapping
scabies" torture, the affected area expanded and became more severe. His
skin had become purulent, particularly his buttocks. Almost the entire skin surface
was covered with scabies, and he had several large blisters. Once the blisters
formed, the guards slapped the scabies to cause excruciating pain. The long-term
condition made his skin abnormal and his sweat glands atrophied. The skin on his
upper body was wrinkled and as dry as paper. It felt unbearably dry and itchy.
The redness and swelling, symptoms of systemic poisoning and long-lasting fever
often made him lapse into a coma. The guards never paid attention and just acted
as if he were sleeping. Due to long-term malnutrition and severe anemia, his immune
system was deteriorating and the chronic inflammation eroded his lymph system.
He developed lymph hyperplasia throughout his body. The lymph node on his chin
was swollen like a duck’s egg and eventually it emitted green purulence. All the
labor camp authorities did was insert a bandage into the hole as treatment, to
stop the purulence flow, completely disregarding the patient’s critical condition.
In
the meantime, the guards did not relax the so-called "attack" and continuously
forced him to sit on the bed board for a long time, while forcing him to do labor.
Sitting on the bed board made his clothes stick to his flesh. Due to the severe
rotting condition on his feet and legs, he was often seen limping with difficulty.
Because his scabies-covered hands were rotting, his palms displayed many small
holes the scars had left. His thumb-nails were almost rotten and disintegrated
and he could not touch water at all. In spite of this, the guards forced him to
use dirty rags to scrub the floor. In the fall when corn was harvested, the vicious
guards even forced him to pick corn. They also ordered him to make the beds for
the cell every morning, while in the evening he could only sleep on his side because
the bed was crowded with inmates.
After over a year of torture, Mr. Song,
who was once 5.9 feet tall and healthy, had become skin and bones. His bony joints
were sticking out and the skin on his lower body was full of scabies with purple
decayed flesh that was open and bleeding. Later, because he was depleted of blood
for such a long time, he was extremely anemic. His face was pale. The wounds no
longer oozed blood, but began discharging tissue fluid. Since April 4, 2002, when
the so-called "attack" began, the guards from No. 4 Division of Chaoyanggou
took the extremely weak Mr. Song to the instructor’s classroom for brainwashing.
The Division Head Fu Guohua supervised while Vice Head Fan Shenlu "attacked"
in person accompanied by "small head" guard Wang and "abnormal
evil" guard Zhao. They used two high voltage electric batons in addition
to police batons. They used the batons to hit his feet and the electric batons
to shock his face and neck. When he was sent back to the cell, his feet were too
swollen to walk.
This devastating torture made his body and mind extremely
weak. New wounds were opened before the old ones had recovered. His legs were
extensively decayed. There were scabies 6.7 cm long and 0.5 cm deep; up to a hundred
big and small breakages. There were dozens of indentations visible on his body.
Those felt rough and hard on the skin and were swollen. He finally suffered heart
and lung failure and he was near death.
On July 22, 2002, policeman Fu Guohua
noticed that Song Changguang was in critical condition and hurried to find director
Zhang from the Labor Re-education Division of Justice Department. He requested
that they sign the labor camp release form without following any due procedure
to release him in a hurry.
After returning home, Song Changguang did not
recover. He died on November 12, 2002. Jiang’s group is responsible for the loss
of another innocent life.
Posting date: 27/June/2004
Original article
date: 26/June/2004
Category: News from China
