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Falun Dafa Practitioners in Liaoning Province: We Wish to Sue the Head Criminal, Jiang Zemin Dafa practitioners in China
November 23, 2002 (Clearwisdom.net) To the International Court and World Human Rights Organization(s): We Falun Dafa practitioners in Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China
are a group of hundreds of thousands of kind-hearted people who believe in
"Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." We want to tell you about the brutal
tortures we have suffered during the past three years, and point out that many
people have been cruelly murdered and tens of thousands have been brutally
tortured. We wish to sue the head criminal, Jiang Zemin, who has directed this
murderous persecution. The experience of each of us Dafa practitioners in Liaoning Province during
the past three years is ironclad evidence to what has happened and is still
happening. Every one of our Dafa practitioners is a powerful witness. After Teacher Li Hongzhi made Falun Dafa public in 1992, he often came to
Liaoning Province to lecture. He has been to Dalian City, Chaoyang City, Fushun
City, Jinzhou City, Benxi City, Lingyuan City, Yi County and other places.
Wherever Teacher arrived, many people began practicing Falun Dafa. All genuine
Dafa practitioner firmly followed Teacher's teachings, disciplining themselves
strictly according to the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance"
wherever they were, which had a positive effect on raising the morality of
society. Furthermore, after practicing Dafa, countless people afflicted with
illnesses became perfectly healthy without any medical treatment or medication.
These people not only saved the provincial government hundreds of millions of
Yuan in medical expenses, but the practice of Dafa also brought happiness to
their families. However, this great cultivation practice, which makes people
healthy, teaches people to be good and improves society's morality, has
unreasonably suffered attacks from lies and slanders. Even prior to July 20th, 1999, people at our practice sites were
constantly harassed. Regarding this issue, all Dafa practitioners in Liaoning
Province were merely exercising the legal rights endowed to every citizen by law
under the Chinese Constitution. We also abided by the principle of
"Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" by writing letters to government officials
at all levels and to top leaders of the nation, in hopes that this issue would
be appropriately solved and that our right to believe in "Truthfulness,
Compassion, Tolerance" would be returned to us. We never received an answer to
our many letters, yet the persecution continued to escalate. On July 20th, 1999, Jiang's group began the illegal arrest of
practice site assistants, followed by large-scale slander and attacks against
Falun Gong. At this time, practitioners in Liaoning Province, trusting in their
government, successively went to the local leaders and told them the facts about
Falun Gong. The local government authorities claimed they couldn't fix the
problem because the decision was made by the central government. With no other
choice and with a heavy heart, we went to Beijing and tried to clarify the facts
about Falun Dafa. We tried to expose the conspiracy of a few thugs through the
Appeals Office in Beijing. [A governmental agency established by the Chinese
constitution through which citizens can report their grievances or report if
their cases have been handled improperly by local officials.] The results of our sincerity and trust in the government were beatings,
arrest, detention, forced labor, and incarceration in mental institutions and
prisons. Without any legal grounds and without instituting proper legal
procedures, Jiang's group directly sent us to detention centers, labor camps and
jails, where we were brutally tortured. The guards beat and kicked us, and used
various means of torture, such as the "tiger bench" See illustration on
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html),
inserting bamboo slivers our fingernails, shocking us with electric batons,
forcing us to keep squatting, and bend over with our rear ends pointed up and
heads down, etc. They subjected us to sleep deprivation; they poured cold water on us and
cursed us through loudspeakers placed right next to our ears; they used pens to
write on our bodies; they tied us up. They forced us to stand in the scorching
sun during the summer, and did not give us enough food; and in the winter, they
stripped us naked and threw us in the snow. Sexual torture was even more
brutally unbearable. They stripped male practitioners and shocked their nipples
and genitals with electric batons; they even stuck the electric batons into the
practitioners' anuses and shocked them. For female practitioners, the thugs
stripped them and shocked their nipples with electric batons; they stuck the
electric batons into their vaginas. They also stabbed practitioners' fingers
with needles. The Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province is an
especially dark den of demons. Jiang's accomplices, Luo Gan and Liu Jing, went
to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in person and ordered the evil guards to force
Dafa practitioners to give up their faith. If they refused to give up practicing
Dafa, the thugs would brutally torture them. The thugs even promoted the means
of brutal torture used on Dafa practitioners to the entire province and even to
the whole nation, creating a sinister and horrific atmosphere in all detention
centers, custody centers, forced labor camps and jails in the province. The
sounds of electric batons shocking people and Dafa practitioners' screaming
while being tortured could be constantly heard. The smell of burnt flesh from
electric batons filled the whole building and Dafa practitioners were tortured
to the verge of death. The guards also forced the practitioners to do slave labor by working them 16
hours a day. Once, guards in the Masanjia Labor Camp forced Dafa practitioners
to work 36 hours without a break. This long-term physical and psychological
torture severely damaged Dafa practitioners' mental and physical health. In
order to cover up their crimes, Jiang's group strictly blocked all information,
and for a long time deprived firm Dafa practitioners of their right to family
visits. Often these practitioners' families did not even know if their
incarcerated loved ones were still alive. Spurred on by Jiang's inhumane policy, "cut them off financially, destroy
them mentally, annihilate them physically; beating to death is nothing and shall
be counted as suicide," the vicious police acted with even more cruelty,
insanity and without any restraint. Many Dafa practitioners were tortured to
death yet the murderers are still free. Jiang's villainous group also used the
system of "implication" by persecuting Dafa practitioners' families, which
forced many practitioners' spouses to divorce them. Countless families have been
broken up. These vicious police pry open the doors to Dafa practitioners' homes
at any time and break in; they ransack practitioners' homes at will; they steal
practitioners' money and possessions and arrest the practitioners. They are
nothing more than robbers and burglars. In order to fulfill their personal
interests, the vicious police fine Dafa practitioners without cause, extorting
huge sums of money. Some practitioners have been arrested many times and almost
all of their money has been stolen by the assessment of "fines." Some were even
forced to sell their homes. When the police arrest practitioners, they first
search the practitioners and steal all the money they have. During this
unprecedented persecution, even 80-year-old practitioners and under-aged
children have not been spared. Where is the respect for law? Where is the
respect for human dignity? Right now, within Liaoning Province, countless Dafa practitioners have been
forced to leave home and roam about to avoid further persecution. Countless more
practitioners are being detained in labor camps, detention centers, jails and
brainwashing centers, where they are brutally tortured both physically and
mentally. Many of them have lost their lives. Even practitioners who are still
able to stay at home are being constantly harassed, monitored and followed by
local police. Furthermore, their salaries have been cut off and they have been
unreasonably fired. Therefore, all Dafa practitioners in Liaoning Province, including those who
have left home, those who are being tortured in labor camps, or those who are
suffering persecution to different degrees wish to sue Jiang Zemin, so the
head criminal can receive due punishment, so the good will be protected, and
Jiang's attempt to destroy "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" will be brought
to an end. All Dafa practitioners in Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China,
sincerely request the International Court and/or the World Human Rights
Organization(s) to assist the righteous and punish the evil. Stop Jiang's
inhuman abuse of "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance" and let the world be filled with
peace and love! Posting date: 12/7/2002 |