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"This Is How the Masanjia Labor Camp 'Educates, Reforms, and Saves' Practitioners" --Testimony of a Female Falun Gong Practitioner A practitioner in China
[Minghui Net] I am a Dafa practitioner in Liaoning Province. I began
practicing Falun Gong in February 1999. Before I started cultivation, I was a
person who pursued fame and self-interest. After I obtained the Fa, I understood
how to conduct myself to become a good person and an even better person. I took
everything lightly. Dafa purified my body and mind. I thank my Teacher, thank
him for his compassion, and the salvation he has offered to us.
On July 22, 1999, Jiang Zemin's regime banned Falun Gong as an illegal
organization. I did not understand why they used the name of the nation and
pushed good people to the opposite side of the government. Falun Gong is a piece
of pure land; it's the only pure land in the world. In September 1999, I went to
Beijing to legally appeal. I was illegally arrested and detained, and I was
accused of disturbing the social order. Isn't it granted by the constitution as
law that a citizen has the legal right to appeal?
In November 1999, I was sent to the Masanjia Labor Camp because I didn't want
to betray my conscience. I answered "Yes, I will continue practicing"
when I was asked, "Are you still going to practice or not?" I was then
illegally sentenced to forced labor for 1 year. This is the "Chinese legal
system." I was among the first group of 11 Dalian City practitioners sent
to labor camps. On the way to the Masanjia Labor Camp, the police told us if we
could not be "reformed," we would suffer big tribulations.
To effectively watch us, the labor camp grouped us in a place that is today's
Masanjia Labor Camp No. 2 Female Branch. As soon as the 11 of us from Dalian
City entered the front gate, we felt the eeriness of this place. We started to
feel terrified from the bottom of our hearts. We didn't know how they would
torture us. Just as expected, we were brutally beaten when we practiced the
exercises. All we wanted was to become healthy by practicing Falun Gong and
cultivating our xinxing (mind nature). The practice has saved the country
a lot of money on medical expenses. However, the government persecuted Falun
Gong, causing many families to be broken up and innocent people to lose their
lives. Where can we find the freedom of belief guaranteed by the Chinese
constitution?
While we were detained, other prisoners were ordered to watch us day and
night. They kept their eyes on us and didn't allow us to study the Fa or
practice the exercises. We were not even allowed to talk. If the officers found
practitioners doing the exercises or studying the Fa, the detention terms of
those prisoners would be prolonged. Therefore, prisoners were extremely
"dedicated" to watching us. They even kept the light in the cell on
all night long. Once found practicing the exercises, a practitioner would be
brutally beaten. Almost all practitioners were abused with difference degrees of
being cursed at, beaten and electrically shocked.
To demand a reasonable environment to practice the exercises, we started a
hunger strike. One practitioner was locked in the toilet for 1 night because of
attempting to practice the exercises. Some practitioners were forcibly fed after
going on a hunger strike. All Dafa practitioners in 4 teams were punished by
being forced to squat down. The head of the team forced practitioner Qi Yuling
to eat. All practitioners would be permitted to stand up only if she would start
to eat. This harsh situation went on for over half an hour. Qi Yuling was
tortured inhumanly. Tubes were inserted through her nose, which caused her to
lose her voice. She was brutally beaten and tortured many times because she
practiced the exercises. She became so skinny and bony. When they beat
practitioners, they normally did it behind closed doors. However, when the
practitioners returned, we could always find the wounds on their bodies.
Every day, we were forcibly brainwashed. We were forced to listen to tapes or
watch videotapes that slandered Dafa. While listening, practitioners were not
permitted to close their eyes, stare at one place or talk to each other; the
time for using the toilet was limited and under the monitoring of the prisoners.
We were mentally controlled like this every day; our rights to our beliefs were
deprived; our souls were being corrupted. Originally a kind and selfless person,
I started to become dull and apathetic. There is a saying in Chinese, "When
a lie is repeated a thousand times, it will become the truth." Misled by
the lies, I gradually believed in their words slandering Teacher. I lost the
ability to distinguish the true from the false. I lost the ability to think
independently and became their tool to mentally manipulate other practitioners.
Under their control, my head was stuffed with the lies with which I was
indoctrinated. I was completely brainwashed by them. Under their directions, I
went around and spread those evil sayings. I was released in April 2000. Only
after December 2000 did I began to recover and gradually return to a normal
state. It took 8 months to break away from those mental controls and dark
shadows. Again, I was able to follow "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance" and started to become a normal person who can think and judge
independently.
They forced the practitioners who refused to be "reformed" to read
books slandering Dafa. They also asked those "reformed" persons [the
people whose minds have gone astray due to Jiang Zemin regime's brainwashing and
torture] to read those vicious lies. Once a practitioner in our cell refused
to be "reformed," so the head of the team called me out and asked me
to read to her from a book that slandered Dafa. They told her, "Listen
carefully; you must know what she's reading. You will be questioned later."
They forcibly indoctrinated her with their false theory.
The heads of the teams were especially hypocritical to those
"reformed" persons. The purpose was to isolate the practitioners who
could not be "reformed." The "reformed" ones watched
practitioners closely and tightly, and tried to persuade them. Sometimes a few
"reformed" persons tried to "reform" a practitioner;
sometimes a few of them took turns battling a practitioner. If the practitioner
was still not "reformed," they started the physical punishment. They
did not allow practitioners to sleep, brutally beat them, electrically shocked
them or forced them to remain in one posture for a very long time. They would
not stop until the practitioner was "reformed."
A few days ago, Masanjia Labor Camp told the foreign reporters that there
were no male prisoners detained there. It's not true. We often saw the male
detainees of the No. 6 team going to work during our morning workout time. I
also saw male Falun Gong practitioners at the first meeting after I was detained
in the Masanjia Labor Camp.
During my half a year in the Masanjia Labor Camp, I eventually understood the
so-called policy of "Education, Reform and Saving." Practitioners were
"reformed" with "education" through
brainwashing -- "reformed" with beatings and electrical shocks, and
"saved" with brutality and abuses. We call for the attention of
all the people in the world. Please don't let them continue to persecute
innocent people. Restore the reputation of Falun Dafa. Restore the reputation of
Master Li.
Posting date: 6/9/2001
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