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Falun Gong Practitioners Brutally Persecuted at Beijing's Division of Dispatchment of People Sentenced to Forced Labor Camps
Li Aimin, the present Associate Director of Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor
Camp is in charge of discipline. He has independently plotted many atrocious
acts of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. Before coming to Tuanhe in
November of 2001, he was the associate director of Beijing's Division of
Dispatchment of People Sentenced to Forced Labor Camps.
[Background: Beijing's Division of Dispatchment of People Sentenced to Forced
Labor Camps is a place that gathers people sentenced to forced labor
"re-education" (including Falun Gong practitioners) from various places for
temporary detention, ranging from half a month to two months. The purpose is to
give detainees inhuman, so-called "education of camp discipline." Then, the
males will be transferred to Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp and the females to
Tiantanghe Forced Labor Camp. The division was established in June 2000. It
consists of four squadrons, the first three squadrons are for male detainees and
the fourth squadron is for female detainees. There are four squads in a squadron
and more than 30 people in a squad. In the summer of 2001, on the right hand
side of the playground (at the right bottom of the sketch map) three buildings
were constructed as housing for the first, second and third squadrons. Building1
and 2 have inner and outer iron gates and the fourth squadron was located on the
right hand side of the Iron Gate # 2. In December 2001, the Division moved into
the new buildings.]
Especially between June 2000 and June 2001, the whole division while under
the direction of Li Aimin became a special place for brutal persecution of Falun
Gong practitioners.
As soon as practitioners who were sent from the detention centers entered
Iron Gate #1, the iron gate immediately closed automatically. About twenty
policemen standing on each side formed two lines, each with an electric baton in
hand, sandwiching practitioners between them. Then, they shouted out orders.
"Stand, walk without your head being cocked, lower your head so you can see your
toes, and put your hands before your belly. Now squat on your heels, cross the
fingers of both hands and hold your head with two hands at the back of your
head, with your two elbows inside both legs. Raising your head is absolutely
prohibited." If anyone dared to disobey, the policemen would jump on him and
rampantly shock him with the electric batons and kick him. Once when a female
practitioner didn't lower her head, a fierce and malicious policewoman rushed
towards her and kicked her breast causing her to fall down. Then, the
policewoman grabbed the practitioner's hair and dragged her on the ground for
more than ten meters. The policewoman had torn a handful of hair out of the
practitioner's scalp, and at the same time decided to beat her brutally. There
was a ruffian called Li Changsuo, who used very malicious means. For any
practitioner who didn't lower his head, he would suddenly deliver a "chop" to
the practitioner's neck with both his palms, causing the practitioner to lose
consciousness and fall down to the ground.
Another form of persecution was to try to force a practitioner to write a
"letter of guarantee" promising to give up the practice of Dafa. Every
practitioner must write it. For any practitioner who refused, they immediately
beat, kicked, and shocked him or her with electric batons in an unbridled way.
If this didn't work, they would tie the practitioner on a bed or chair and shock
him or her with electric batons, and try to hold his or her hand to write a
"letter of guarantee."
In addition, everyone must wear red prison uniforms and shout out "reporting"
many times before he or she could enter the squad. Seeing the terror in the
division, all non-practitioners who had newly arrived trembled with fear. Some
of them were so frightened that they wet their pants and were paralyzed with
fear. You could hear everywhere the sounds of crackling electric batons burning
people's skin, stern voices cursing, victim's screams of pain, and sometimes the
shouting of "reporting" for a hundred times as a punishment for those who did
not shout out "reporting" aloud. Each policeman had an electric baton in hand
and could do whatever he liked. All that was going on around here was just
violence.
What is described above is only the situation on the first day when one
enters the division. The division is encircled with high walls, on which there
is electrified wire netting. The division's iron gates are always shut, so that
no one from outside would know of its existence. Right before foreign reporters
visited Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp between March and April of 2001, all people
imprisoned there were ordered from the division through the squad that they were
absolutely forbidden to disclose to any reporter the existence of the division. (To be continued)
We ask that all practitioners who have escaped from Tuanhe and Tiantanghe
Forced Labor Camps step forward. Pick up your pens to make known to the world
your experience of persecution. Reveal to the public the truly evil faces of
Beijing's Division of Dispatchment of People Sentenced to Forced Labor Camps,
Beijing's Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp, Beijing's Xin'an Forced Labor Camp for Women
(transferred into Beijing's Tiantanghe Forced Labor Camp), and Beijing's
Tiantanghe Training Center for the Legal System. Expose their monstrous lies
that deceive the world's opinion. All of those lawbreaking policemen will be
punished according to law.
Posting date: 1/29/2003 |