Fangqiang Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province Uses Various Methods in an Attempt to Force Practitioners to Give Up Their Belief in Falun Gong
(Clearwisdom.net)
Since July 20, 1999, the Jiang regime has slandered and persecuted Falun Dafa
and Dafa practitioners. One of their main tools is sending practitioners to
forced labor camps. We will expose in this article some of the methods utilized
by Fangqiang Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province in their attempt to force
practitioners to give up their belief in Falun Gong over these past two years.
1. Savage Torture
In the forced labor camp, the guards' bonuses, performance reviews and
promotions are closely related to how well they do in forcing practitioners to
give up Falun Gong. Therefore, the police view those determined practitioners
as a thorn in their side. It is all too often that the police make trouble for
the practitioners and beat them up. Once, a practitioner was so weak that he
was not able to carry as much wheat as others. On his way to the warehouse the
police beat him up with a baton and injured him. To conceal this act, the
police postponed his treatment and waited for the injury to heal by itself. In
addition, the police suppressed the practitioners' joint appeal letter and
forced some criminals to lie by saying that the police didn't beat that
practitioner. A practitioner in his 60's asked why the police tortured
practitioners with four batons at a time. As a reply, seven or eight policemen
at once held him on the ground and beat him with six batons for 20 minutes.
The police even burned him with a cigar and stomped on him with boots.
After a practitioner announced that his letter renouncing Dafa was null and
void, he was tortured with an electric baton for 5 hours.
2. Enslavement
To put pressure on practitioners, the police assign the most strenuous and
undesirable work to the practitioners. They don't make any exceptions, not
even for practitioners who are over 70. In the early morning cold, a
68-year-old practitioner was ordered to take off his shoes and socks, and
stand in cold water in order to clean up the ditch. The criminal inmates are
allowed to carry the garbage barrels on their shoulder, but practitioners were
ordered to hold the garbage barrel with their hands. Quite often the garbage
would spill out and get all over the practitioner.
3. Tight Supervision
To further limit practitioners' freedom, the forced labor camp officials
picked out some criminals who desperately wished to reduce their sentence.
They assigned two criminals to each practitioner. They have to do everything
together, in order to prohibit practitioners from speaking with each other,
studying the Fa or doing the exercises. To reduce their sentences, those
criminals actively monitor practitioners. They often abuse and beat the
practitioners. One practitioner openly did the exercises to protest the
persecution. When he was reasoning with the police, the criminal who monitored
him beat him up right in front of the police. His mouth was beaten to a bloody
pulp. Out of spite, sometimes the police even encourage or instigate the
criminals to beat the practitioners. Because a practitioner tried to stop
CCTV's slanderous "Focus Discussion" program from playing, the
cell's leader was instructed to organize all criminals in the cell to beat up
that practitioner during the evening break. Some criminals burned the
practitioner with cigarettes, and some hit him with stools. As a result, the
practitioner was injured in multiple places. Afterwards, the cell leader was
only punished in name. Several months later, the cell leader was rewarded with
a reduction of five months in his sentence.
4. Rotating Brainwashing Teams
Several policemen who specialize in brainwashing take turns on the
practitioners. Everyday practitioners are only allowed to rest for 1-2 hours.
When a practitioner was sleepy, exhausted and unable to concentrate, these
policemen would continually interrogate the practitioner to look for a gap in
his various reactions. After a few days or as long as several months, some
policemen were transferred away from the steadfast practitioners to avoid
being convinced by those practitioners.
5. Psychological Attacks
The police take different approaches to psychologically exploit
practitioners' weaknesses and wear down their willpower. Their eventual goal is
to obtain a Guarantee Letter, Regret Letter, and an Exposing Letter. For
example:
For over two years in the forced labor camps, practitioners have upheld the
standard and mighty virtue worthy of Dafa disciples. Many criminals have
understood Falun Dafa and now have the hope of a good future. With the progress
of Fa-rectification, the environment in the forced labor camps has improved. Now
the evil forces mainly focus on brainwashing practitioners who were newly sent
to the labor camps and trying to have those practitioners who turned against
Dafa thoroughly betray their conscience. However, all of their methods are aimed
at human attachments and weaknesses. If practitioners can fundamentally change
their ordinary people's minds, recognize the Fa, understand with reason and
carry out a practitioner's duty according to Fa-rectification, then the evil
cannot take advantage of us.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2002/4/27/29179.html
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