Details About the Murder of My Brother, Chen Aizhong, At Tangshan City's No. 1 Forced Labor Camp, Part I
By Chen Shulan -- Dafa practitioner and victim's sister
(Clearwisdom.net) I am Chen Shulan, female, currently 35 years old, born
in Canfangying Village of Beixinbao Township in Huailai County, Hebei Province.
Six of my family members are firm Dafa practitioners: my father Chen Yunchuan
(63 years old), mother Wang Lianying (60 years old), younger senior brother Chen
Aizhong (34 years old), younger junior brother Chen Aili (34 years old), younger
sister Chen Hongnian (31 years old), and my 10 year old daughter.
Since July 22, 1999, our whole family has gone to Beijing to appeal many
times. We suffered cruel torture and harsh fines for peacefully appealing at
Tiananmen Square, and have been illegally detained several times. The total
amount of money and personal property extorted by the local government from our
family is as much as 24,000 Yuan in total. [About US$3,000, about 10 year
average annual income in rural China] Currently, my father and younger
junior brother have been illegally sentenced to 2 years in Datangwan Prison of
Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. My younger sister is illegally detained in
Gaoyang Labor Camp in Baoding City, Hebei Province. My mother has been missing
since she went to Beijing to rectify the Fa on New Year's Eve, 2001. Now, I am
also forced to leave home [to avoid illegal detention]. My younger senior
brother Chen Aizhong was illegally sentenced to 3 year forced labor camp and
sent to Tangshan No. 1 Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province on September 12,
2001. Eight days later, on the afternoon of September 20, 2001, he was tortured
to death in the labor camp.
Aizhong started to practice Dafa in 1998. He participated in the appeal on
April 25, 1999. We went to Beijing on July 20, 1999 to appeal again, but were
stopped by the local government on our way, and were detained for 3 days in
Huailai County Detention Center. We suffered harsh tortures after being taken
back by the Beixinbao Township local government. We were forced to pay a fine of
500 Yuan for each person before being released.
On October 13, 1999, when Aizhong came to my home to visit (I was living in
Changping County which belongs to Beijing), he was forcefully taken back by the
personnel from Beixinbao Township local government and the police station. They
also stole 9,000 Yuan from my home at the same time. After being detained for 2
months in Huailai Detention Center, Chen Aizhong was found not guilty and
released.
On December 28, 1999, Aizhong and other family members went to Beijing to
appeal together, and all were arrested again and suffered all kinds of tortures.
After being taken back by the local government, we were punished with a 15-day
detention at first, then the term was changed to a long-term detention. This
time, we were illegally detained for as long as 10 months. We were
unconditionally released after the whole family started to protest and Aizhong
went on a hunger strike for 9 days.
On October 27, 2000, the whole family once again went to Beijing to appeal.
In order to get rid of the people sent by the local government to monitor us, we
took an indirect path and walked. On the way to Beijing, we climbed mountains
and crossed rivers; we ate in the wind and slept in the dew. The trip was about
100 kilometers [about 63 miles] long and it took us nearly 3 days to get
to Tiananmen Square. After we were arrested, Aizhong was taken to Xuanwu
District Detention Center in Beijing. For not revealing his name and address, he
was harshly tortured and suffered all kinds of abuses. Later, he was recognized
by the local government and was taken back to Huailai County Detention Center.
The practitioners detained there continued to protest and went on a hunger
strike. At that time, the temperature dropped below 0 0C [below 32
0F]. The wicked head of the county police department, Xu Weiguo,
gave orders that practitioners not be given quilts or blankets and made them
sleep on the concrete floor. He also told the practitioners, "Who cares if
you eat or not. If any of you die, you just die in vain." Aizhong was sent
home by the wicked police when he was in critical condition after 19 days of
hunger strike.
On November 21, 2000, four of us brothers and sisters went to visit a friend
in one car and were arrested on the way. My younger senior brother and younger
sister were sent to a detention center. Not being willing to be taken away by
the evil, my younger sister jumped out of the speeding police car and was
seriously injured. Half of her body was paralyzed. After my younger senior
brother was sent to the detention center, he was tied to a cross and suffered
all kinds of torture and abuse. The wounds on his body were so horrifying that
the police temporarily hid him in a basement outside the detention center,
because they were afraid they would not be able to explain the wounds when
higher-level officers inspected the detention center. At night, an inmate leader
once again tied Aizhong to a board on the floor and poured water on his face
with a basin. The inmate kept pouring water on Aizhong's body until he was
released the next day. At 6:00 p.m. in the evening, since the injuries to
Aizhong and my younger sister were so severe that they could not take care of
themselves, the wicked police at the detention center sent them home.
On 2001 New Year's Eve, our whole family once again went to Beijing to
rectify the Fa. Aizhong was illegally detained in Dongbeiwang police station in
Beijing. For not revealing his name and address, he was beaten and shocked with
electric batons. He was stripped to the skin and handcuffed to a tree in
freezing weather for over 1 hour. The snow under his feet was melted into a
pool. He was then sent to the detention center of Haidian District Police
Department in Beijing. The inmates there inhumanly tortured him by breaking the
skin of all his ten fingers using the toothbrush handles; they called this
torture "opening a lock" (first someone holds his two finger tips,
then they insert a toothbrush handle between two fingers and forcefully and
continuously twist it). Then they buried him under snow, which caused his two
legs to lose feeling so that he could not walk. In Haidian District Detention
Center, he went on a hunger strike for 9 days before being taken back by the
local government and sent to Huailai Detention Center. He was illegally
sentenced for 2 years of forced labor, and sent to Zhangjiakou Forced Labor
Camp. The labor camp refused to take him (because of his health condition), so
he was driven back to Huailai Detention Center. Later, he was re-sentenced to 3
years of forced labor and sent to Tangshan No. 1 Forced Labor Camp on September
12, 2001.
After 1 p.m. on September 21, 2001, Yang from Huailai County "610
Office," [a bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to
persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in
the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches] Beixinbao
Township Mayor Yao XX and the police station political instructor Wang together
came to my home in Changping County. Yao said, "Tangshan Labor Camp has
been calling the '610 office' of Huailai County for 3 days, saying your younger
brother is seriously ill. Do you want to go for a visit?" I said
"Yes," thinking something has got to be wrong since normally neither
labor camps nor detention centers would allow practitioners' family members to
visit, but today they came to my door to invite me. On the way to the labor
camp, Yao repeatedly told me that my younger senior brother's (Chen Aizhong)
health was not good, and he had renal failure and hematuria [blood in urine].
We arrived at Tangshan No. 1 Labor Camp before 4 p.m, and they immediately held
a meeting with the labor camp leaders as I waited downstairs. At 6 p.m, they
brought me into a conference room. The deputy director of the labor camp who is
in charge of persecuting Falun Gong said, "Your younger brother was not in
good health when he came. He had been on hunger strike for two days when he was
in Huailai Detention Center, and he continued with the hunger strike after he
came here, so we force-fed him. He did not cooperate with the force-feeding so
we gave him a saline infusion. However, the infusion could not support him very
long, and he was sent to Tangshan People's Hospital on the afternoon of
September 19. Chen Aizhong vomited on the way, and he became better on the
morning of September 20. But his condition deteriorated and he died
in the afternoon. At that time, we cleaned his body and changed his
clothes." I could not believe the death of my younger brother, and told
them, "My younger brother once refused to eat and drink for 19 days in
Huailai Detention Center, and refused the tube force-feeding and infusion in the
same way. After he was sent back home, he quickly recovered. He has always been
in very good health."
I thought that I must expose the evil, letting people all over the world be
aware of their evilness. The deputy director asked me, "Do you have any
request?" I raised three requests: first, I want to take a photo of my
younger brother's body; second, to have a judicial medical examiner exam his
body; and third, to have a detailed report on what happened to him during his
stay at the detention center. The deputy director quickly agreed. After 8 p.m,
the deputy director first let me see my younger brother's remain. We went to the
mortuary, where I took a last look at my younger senior brother lying in a
freezer. My younger brother's body had obviously been cleaned up. He wore a
black hat, new clothes, his face was clean and pale, there was a trace of blood
on his lips, his two ears were swollen and looked purple and black, and his
right ear opening had blood upon touching it. I opened the zipper of his clean
upper clothes, and saw a 10 centimeters [about 4 inches] long wound on
his left chest. I asked them to explain the wound. The deputy director
immediately said that it was a cut made in the hospital during a rescue attempt.
Then I saw there was a large area of bruise with blood from his two shoulders to
his back and asked how that was caused. The deputy director said, "It was
there before." I said, "I do not think so, I know my younger brother
better than anyone else. There was nothing on his body; this must have been
caused by the beating." I did not have time to look at other areas, as they
eagerly requested me to leave. I requested to take a photo at that time, but the
deputy director told me to wait until the next day. I suspected that they would
do some cover up on my younger brother's body, so I asked to stay. They held,
dragged, talked and deceived me all the way out. I heard someone behind
whispering to the workers of the mortuary. I turned my head around but he
immediately hid away. I wanted to expose them and asked, "What are you
talking about?" The wicked people became nervous, and a policeman with the
badge number 1350147 pushed me out of the mortuary door in a hurry, and closed
and locked the door immediately. I told Yang XX and Yao XX from Huailai County,
that I would write a statement about the wounds on my younger brother's body and
the blood from his ear in front of all the wicked people, so that they could not
deny them after they finished processing the body tomorrow. They did not agree
and sent me to the hostel. All the wicked people went to dinner together,
leaving policemen Zhang XX (badge number 1350020) and Yu X (badge number
1350064) to watch me. After a while, the policeman with badge number 1350147
delivered dinner to me. He told me, "Your brother's health was normal when
he came. The labor camp would not take any sick people." This obviously
contradicted the deputy director's claim that my younger brother was not in good
health when he came because he had been on hunger strike for two days when he
was in Huailai Detention Center. Since this policeman had not taken part in that
secret meeting, he unintentionally told the truth. After those wicked people
from Huailai County came back with enough food and alcohol, they came to my
room. Yang XX said a few true words after drinking the alcohol, "Your
younger brother did a hunger strike here, and he did not cooperate when they
force-fed him. He snapped the feeding tube. The bruises on his body were caused
during the force-feeding." He was describing with his hand gestures. I was
shocked but he immediately became aware that he'd said too much and changed his
words, "That was just my imagination."
Around 10 a.m. on the second morning, the evil villains and I came to the
meeting room of the labor camp. Before the deputy director of the labor camp
started to talk, Yang XX from Huailai County "610 office" cut him
short and said, "It's illegal to take pictures of the corpse." The
major team leader of the labor camp followed, and also said it was illegal to
take pictures of the corpse and that I should handle my brother's death more
cooperatively, etc. Yang XX threatened me, "If you don't listen to me, we
won't drive you back home." I said I could go back myself. I requested an
examination done by a judicial medical expert. He said, "You must pay for
all the expenses for hiring the judicial medical expert if it turns out that the
death was caused by illness." The deputy director also said, "In order
to save Chen Aizhong, the labor camp spent more than 10,000 Yuan. This should
all be borne by your family." I said, "My brother's death was caused
by Jiang Zemin's persecution -- he ordered that 'It's nothing if [a Falun
Gong practitioner was] beaten to death, and the murder would be considered
suicide.'" I asked the deputy director, "Didn't you promise me
yesterday I could take pictures of my brother? How come it is illegal
today?" They tried to deceive me and said, "You should sign the
agreement letter first, then we can talk about your requests." I look at
the agreement letter; it roughly stated: "Chen Aizhong died due to illness:
weakness in respiratory system and renal failure. It was a natural death. All
expenses should be borne by the family member. However, considering the family's
financial difficulty, the labor camp will pay the cost for the family." I
said, "What is on the agreement letter is incorrect. My brother was fine
when he came to your place. In just eight days, you have tortured him to death.
You should be responsible for all the expenses. I refuse to sign this." The
deputy director said, "If you sign this, we will agree to all of your
requests. We came up with this agreement after we deliberated it over and over
many times." This very last sentence of his talking revealed the fact that
they had fabricated the agreement. The evils were still quibbling about
it. I further debunked their conspiracy, and exposed the truth of the
"self-immolation" incident in Tiananmen Square. I said loudly,
"Falun Dafa is Good. Falun Dafa is a righteous Fa!" All the evil
people looked at me blankly and speechless.
I insisted on my request to take pictures and that only after I saw the
pictures would I talk about signing the letter. The deputy director said,
"I'm leaving ." At this moment, Yang XX from Huailai County "610
office" made all other people leave the room and said to me, "It
doesn't matter whether you sign or not, we will handle your brother's case in
the same matter. I know the reason you want the pictures. It is because you want
to post them on Minghui Net (its English version is Clearwisdom.net) and
let people in the whole world know about [your brother's death]." I
quickly copied down the agreement letter. He started getting afraid and called
the evil people in the labor camp in again, and said to me in front of them,
"Take out what you have copied." I said fearlessly, "Which one of
you dares to take away a single piece of paper from me?" Right away, the
deputy director said, "What you have copied is invalid." I asked the
deputy director who bought the new clothes my brother was wearing. He said the
team leader of the labor camp, Wang Yulin, paid for them out of his own pocket.
A policeman had told me before that team leader Wang Yulin knew most clearly
about the process of my brother being murdered. Maybe he bought the clothes for
my brother because he had a guilty conscience after doing evil deeds.
After the evil villains had their lunch, one after another, they talked and
tried to deceive me again in the afternoon. They tried different ways to make me
sign the agreement letter. I firmly resisted. At 8 p.m, I left the meeting room
and went to the hostel. When I was passing the main entrance of the labor camp,
I saw that officials of the labor camp and the County Judicial Bureau were all
there. The Bureau Head whispered to two policewomen who were in charge of
monitoring me.
Around 7 a.m. on the third morning, the policeman with badge No. 1350147
called out twice to another policeman with badge No. 1350020. After 7 a.m, Yao
XX from Huailai County came and said to me, "Let's go to the labor
camp." After I stepped out of the hostel, I didn't find any car from the
labor camp, I knew they must have been deceiving me. After I got in the car, I
said, "I want to go home." The evils laughed loudly, "We were
waiting for you to say those words."
When we arrived at Changping County, Yang from Huailai County asked me
"Where is the Changping County government office? I need to find a
classmate." I led him there. After we arrived at the yard of the government
office, he went upstairs with a briefcase. I felt something was not right and I
said to Yao XX, "This place is not far from my home. I can go home
myself." He didn't allow me to get out of the car. I asked him to drive me
home, but he said I had to wait until Yang returned. I asked him to call Yang
and hurry him up; he was afraid that I saw through the scheme and said he would
go upstairs to take a look. He didn't return for a long time. At this moment,
Manager Huang of Changping Metal Company (my husband's company) and Secretary
Wang of the Goods and Material Bureau walked into the yard. I had just gotten
out of the car. Secretary Wang shouted at me angrily: "Why did you come to
make trouble again?" I said, "I didn't make any trouble. The evils
tortured my brother to death. They wanted me to sign an agreement letter saying
that my brother died of illness. I refused to sign, so they dragged me
here." Wang XX from Huailai County immediately said, "She didn't make
trouble. We took her away, and now we brought her back." Secretary Wang of
the Goods and Material Bureau asked me, "Where are they?" I said,
"Upstairs in '610 office.'" I waited again for a long time, and still
didn't see anybody. I ran up to the sixth floor, and went into the "610
office." When I entered the room, I saw a staff member typing a false
report on the process of how my brother was persecuted in Tangshan City. When
the two evils from Huailai County saw me, they were shocked, and asked me how
did I come up? The police officer from Changping police station hurried me out,
and told me to wait in the room outside. I realized the evil was afraid that I
would expose this incident and let people around the world know. They intended
to send me to a forced labor camp through the Changping County government in
order to accomplish their vicious purpose. However, for lack of legal basis, all
together, relevant staffs from Changping County Police Department, Metal
Company, the Goods and Material Bureau, and the evil villains from Huailai
County finally sent me home. Later, the vice manager of Changping Metal company
threatened me again, "You should not post your brother's case on the
Internet. If we find out you posted it on the Internet, we will definitely
arrest you." It's obvious that they were extremely afraid. From September
21 to 23, during the process of handling the incident, I didn't eat and drink, I
protested with a hunger strike and didn't cooperate with the evils.
I heard that my brother's body was cremated on the afternoon of September 23
without our family members' approval, signature, or any other legal procedures.
The evil people from Huailai County took the ash box back and it is unknown to
us where it is located.
Tangshan City's No. 1 Forced Labor Camp tortured a healthy Dafa practitioner
to death in only eight days. In order to deceive the public and create
illusions, they conspired with vicious villains from Huailai County to cover up
the truth, and were fearful that people around the world would know the truth.
Countless Dafa practitioners have sacrificed their blood and life to awaken
people, let the people not be deceived by Jiang Zemin's regime. The day of the
Fa rectifying the human world is coming soon.
***
List of the Evil Criminals:
Tangshan City Forced Labor Camp: Deputy Director
Major Team Leader, Badge No. 1350021
Evil police, Zhang XX, Badge No. 1350020; Yu X, Badge No. 1350064; a
policeman, Badge No. 1350147
Team Leader, Wang Yulin
Section Chief, Li Weidong
Huailai County "610 Office," Yang XX
Beixinbao Township Mayor, Yao XX
Beixinbao Township Police Station, Political Instructor, Wang XX
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