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Retired Teacher and Dafa Practitioner Liu Xiwen from Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province Passes Away After Prolonged Persecution
(Clearwisdom.net) After July 20, 1999, Dafa practitioner Liu Xiwen has
been the target of endless persecution from the Beilin District Education
Committee and Zhenxing Elementary School. Especially after he appealed in
Beijing in December 2000, the officials intensified their tactics. Mr. Liu Xiwen
passed away on May 20, 2002 [April 9 according to Chinese lunar calendar].
Prior to the time of his death, Liu Xiwen had been living in the streets for 14
months to avoid illegal arrest and his pension had been suspended for 18 months.
Mr. Liu Xiwen, 60, was a retired elementary school teacher. Before he began
cultivation in November 1997, 4/5 of his stomach had to be surgically removed.
He was also afflicted with high blood pressure, heart disease, had suffered a
stroke and other diseases. After practicing Falun Gong, he recovered completely. On July 22, 1999, the police officers from the local police ransacked Liu
Xiwen's home and tried to force him to write a "guarantee statement" to give
practicing Falun Gong and never to go to Beijing to appeal, but Liu refused. The
police department then fined him 400 Yuan, nearly a month's salary for an
average urban worker in China. In December 2000, the police brutally beat Liu
Xiwen in Tiananmen Square in Beijing for appealing for Falun Gong. In Daxing
Police Station of Beijing Liu Xiwen was brutally beaten a second time and sent
to a local detention center. Ma De, the former Party Committee Secretary of
Suihua City, had implemented a policy of not releasing practitioners who refused
to write the "guarantee statements, regardless of their health conditions. He
also habitually sent practitioners to forced labor camps. Liu Xiwen's school
tried to bail him out, but Yang Zhenbo, the director of Education Committee
became furious after learning the news and prohibited anyone at school to visit
Liu Xiwen or to bail him out, listing him as someone to be singled out for harsh
persecution. Under these circumstances, Liu Xiwen wrote a guarantee statement
against his will and was not released until he paid more than 5,000 Yuan to
persons from the "610 Office." [The "610 Office" is an agency specifically
created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of
administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.]
Without any proper legal procedure, Beilin District Education Committee then
withheld Liu Xiwen's entire pension. Liu received nothing from his pension until
the Chinese New Year of 2000, when the officials gave Liu Xiwen 2,000 Yuan for
living expenses. Yang Zhenbo and Yu Hongchen, director and party secretary of Beilin District
Education Board, respectively, asserted pressure on the Zhenxing Elementary
School and often harassed Liu Xiwen. These two unconscionable people also made
life miserable for Liu's entire household for a long time for the sake of
currying favor with their superiors. Yang Zhenbo also applied pressure on the
Xinhua Elementary School, where Liu's younger daughter worked. Liu Zhenren,
Party Secretary of the Xinhua Elementary School, often attacked Falun Gong
during morning gatherings and applied pressure on Liu's daughter. One day in the
middle of the night, the school principal Ren Shulan, along with Yang Zhenbo and
others, went to Liu Xiwen daughter's home to harass her. On January 26, 2000 [Chinese lunar calendar, right before the Chinese New
Year], Yang Zhenbo and Li Yujie, the school principal of the Zhenxing
Elementary School, tricked Liu Xiwen into coming to school and tried to force
him to write the guarantee statement. In order to escape further persecution
from the education committee, Liu Xiwen and his wife couldn't even spend their
Chinese New Year at home. One day in April 2001, the school officials again went to Liu's home and
harassed him. When met with rejection, Yang Zhenbo sent more thugs and was again
rejected. Liu Xiwen left home that day to avoid further persecution, which
infuriated Yang Zhenbo. Yang Zhenbo brought over a dozen thugs from the local
police station, the "610 Office" and from the politics and security section of
the police department, and went to Liu's home and threatened his wife with
detention. Yang Zhenbo was afraid that Liu Xiwen would go to Beijing to appeal
and cause him to look bad, so he tried his best to find out Liu's whereabouts.
When he learned that Liu was at his second daughter's home out of town, he
publicly promised he would no longer harass Liu Xiwen and would give back his
entire pension. He even asked Liu's daughter to go to the education committee to
get the money. However, when Liu's daughter arrived, Yu Hongchen told her,
"You'll be fired if your father makes trouble again." He also said, "If your
father doesn't write the statement, then you can write it. We'll promote you to
school principal if you behave well." When she refused, the officials refused to
hand over Liu's pension. Later, when she was in the process of being considered
for promotion, Yu Hongchen said to her, "Since your father is still practicing
Falun Gong, you won't be promoted as long as Director Yang and I work at the
education committee." After Liu Xiwen left home, Yang Zhenbo and other officials tried to bring him
back but met with strong opposition from Liu's family. Liu's wife said, "My
husband has high blood pressure and heart disease. You can go search for him but
you must be held accountable for the consequences." Fearing to take
responsibility, they sent two officials to hound Liu's daughter, but they got
into an accident on the way. In April 2002, the officials in Suihua City conducted a large-scale roundup
of Falun Gong practitioners. Liu Xiwen, who was in Daqing City at the time, was
arrested and abused. By this point, Liu's health had deteriorated greatly due to
the prolonged persecution, and his daughter took him back to Suihua City on May
2nd. On May 20th, 2002, Liu Xiwen passed away. For the past three years, Liu Xiwen's family has suffered great persecution.
Officials from the residential office, work unit and police station took turns
harassing them constantly. On her way to work, Liu's second daughter was
kidnapped by officials from Daqing City People's Hospital and sent to a drug
rehabilitation center for forced brainwashing. Liu's youngest daughter has been
denied promotion repeatedly because of her father's beliefs. After Liu passed
away, Liu Xiwen's family asked for his pension for his wife's living expenses,
by the request was flatly denied. All of this happened because Liu Xiwen refused to give up his right to lead
his life according to "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." What does this say
about the ruling regime, that a good person must choose between these three
noble principles and his life? Note: Some of those involved in persecuting Mr. Liu to death have already
received karmic retribution. Ma De, the former Suihua City party secretary was
arrested for financial crimes. The former school principal Li Yujie of Zhenxing
Elementary School fell ill with chronic illnesses. School Party Secretary Li
Yuting and Assistant Principal Wang Li were injured in a car accident on their
way to Daqing City to find Liu Xiwen. Liu Zhenren, Party Secretary of the Xinhua
Elementary School, is suffering from diabetes, and his wife has fallen ill as
well. Posting date: 11/25/2002 |