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"Clarify the truth thoroughly, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, save all beings, and safeguard the Fa with determination" (Dafa is Indestructible) The Torture I Experienced in a Labor Camp Wu Mingzhong, Practitioner in China (Clearwisdom Net)
I was sentenced to two years of "reeducation through labor" because
of my firm belief in Falun Dafa. I would like to expose the following facts to
all the kind people around the world, so that everyone will know more about the
brutal persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.
During July and August of 2000, the labor camp sent a group of people to be
trained on how to get Falun Dafa practitioners to give up their beliefs. The
"technique" they learned was to use a group of prisoners to torture
practitioners. Usually two prisoners "watch" one practitioner, and
"watching" actually means humiliating, brutally beating, and
torturing.
On August 15, 2000, the Dayan Labor Camp in Ziyang city, Sichuan Province
adopted this method to torture practitioners. At 8 AM, the guards forced
practitioners to run barefoot. The concrete ground later became scorching hot
under the sun, but some practitioners were still forced to run until it was
dark. The guards tried to force us to submit to them and denounce Dafa by
denying us food and rest, but we refused. This only infuriated them, and they
intensified the torture. When the running ended, we were forced to hold the same
standing position. After that, the prisoners forced us to run while carrying
heavy objects and performing heavy manual labor.
Later, the guards forced us to run again. Being extremely fatigued after an
entire day of heavy work, we could not run as fast as they wanted, so they
brutally beat us. When I collapsed to the ground from exhaustion, they rushed
over to beat me, forcing me to keep running. This continued until about 10
o'clock in the evening . After that, we were forced to stand outside holding the
same position again, to be bitten by the mosquitoes. My understanding of the
tribulation at that time was not deep, and I took the suffering without thinking
about it. I thought that our compassion and forbearance would awaken their
conscience, but instead they took it as meekness and incited prisoners to
torture us. The prisoners who tortured us the most viciously had their sentences
reduced.
During that night the labor camp got a warning. A powerful thunderstorm raged
throughout the night, destroying many TV's and other electronic devices, but
these vile people had no regret and continued doing vicious things. The guards
woke us up very early in the morning and pushed us outside into the
thunderstorm. They then forced us to stand still in corners facing urine
buckets, from morning until dusk, with only a short meal break. The guards even
beat us while we were standing. When the rain stopped, we were forced to run
again. When a practitioner fell down, the guards would punch and kick him.
Several times the guards pulled me into a restroom and beat me up. At 2 AM, the
guards allowed us to sleep but woke us up two hours later. At 4 AM we were
forced to run again, and another round of torture began.
On the third day, the guards devised another way to torture us, forcing us to
run while pushing a cart full of clay up and down a hill. Meanwhile, prisoners
were ordered to whip us, but we still did not give in to them. In the afternoon,
I collapsed and did not want to comply with them any longer. I said to myself
that even if I was tortured to death, I would not give up my righteous belief in
Falun Dafa. I began a hunger strike, and they force-fed me. They even forced me
to swallow my own vomit and hooked me up to an intravenous drip.
The guards saw that torture could not force me to submit, so they tried a
different route. Starting on August 20, the guards continuously tried to brainwash me,
reading books slandering Falun Dafa to me. Their plot failed, and on August 24,
the guards started to violently beat me again as before, shocking me with
electric batons and whipping me with sticks.
At this time I could not take the suffering anymore. I wanted to deceive them
by pretending I was "reformed" and I accepted their request. I showed my
"inability to deal with things using righteous thoughts amidst painful
trials" ("Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)"). I used ordinary people's notions and feelings to face the
tribulation, letting the evil take advantage of my weakness. I accepted the
wrong understanding of the Fa. Only when I studied the Fa after being released
did I realize my severe mistake. I do not want to say more about the mistake I
made and how regretful I am. All I want to do is get back into the Fa
rectification, reveal the evil deeds of Jiang Zemin's group in persecuting Falun
Dafa, make up for the damage I caused to Dafa, and clarify the truth of Falun Dafa
to people no matter what it will take.
Posting date: 7/24/2001 |