Tactics Used In Brainwashing Center in Baiyin City
By Dafa practitioners in China
(Clearwisdom.net) The brainwashing center in Baiyin City, Gansu
Province opened in November 2002. The center is under the direct control of the
Baiyin City "610 Office."* The center has 24 personnel who came from
the city's Political and Judicial Committee, the Public Security Department, the
court, the prosecutor, the Party Training Institute, the Science Committee, the
Architectural Engineering Institute and others. The center is designated to
brainwash thse 140 Dafa practitioners whose names have been recorded on a
blacklist by the Baiyin City government. The Political and Judiciary Committee in Baiyin City leased the Wuchuan
Township Agriculture Bank office complex as the location for the brainwashing
center. They sealed the second floor of the building with steel fencing and
installed a metal door with a lock to open to the second floor entrance. The
windows of all the rooms on the second floor were fitted with metal bars. They
even built segregated restrooms to prevent Dafa practitioners from getting out
of the center. They posted various pictorial posters in the conference room that
defame and slander Dafa. They bought in a home theater system to show video CDs
that were full of lies. They set up a security office at the entrance of the
yard complex and put four security guards on duty in different shifts. The
security guards were from the Public Security Department of the City. The big
metal entrance door to the yard complex was normally closed at all times. The
city's Political and Judiciary Committee provided financial support, material
resources and personnel for the center. After all these preparations, they
threatened in a newspaper column that, within a short period of time, they would
thoroughly brainwash the 140+ firm Dafa practitioners from Baiyin City whose
names are on the blacklist. From November 2002 to August 2003, within this nine months period, this
center held three brainwashing sessions. The Baiyin Political and Judiciary
Committee and the "610 Office" ordered the "610 Offices"
from every district and township to abduct Dafa practitioners. They abducted
Dafa practitioners from their homes and from their work places and took them to
the center and transferred Dafa practitioners in labor camps to the center. The
"610 Office" ordered that the each employer of a Dafa practitioner or
each township government where Dafa practitioners live to provide two employees
as "companion personnel." These "companion personnel" live
with the Dafa practitioners in the same room, to monitor them 24 hours a day.
The employer or family must pay 1400 Yuan** as a "fee" for each
practitioner taken. The wages for the "companion personnel" are paid
by the employers or the township government. Most Often Used Methods by the Brainwash Center Workers to Persecute Dafa
Practitioners: 1. Forcing lies on Dafa practitioners The evildoers in this the center force practitioners to read materials that
defame Dafa and to view Video CDs that slander Dafa in attempts to brainwash
them. They force Dafa practitioners to memorize the content of defamatory
posters on the wall. If the Dafa practitioners refuse to co-operate, they
threaten that "they would use extreme measures. 2. Trying to deceive Dafa practitioners with the strategy of "Five
Hearts" (LOVE, KINDNESS, HONESTY, PATIENCE AND PERSISTENCE) that they
painstakingly established, but that fail to cover up the brutality of the
persecution. The true purpose of this strategy is to use their sham kindness to
cover up the brutal nature of the brainwashing. To deceive the kind hearted Dafa practitioners, they said that they would not
beat and curse Dafa practitioners and they would treat Dafa practitioners with
equality without any unfairness. They even said with the same sham kindness,
"The reason that we installed the fence on second floor and installed bars
on the windows is for the sake of your safety." Trying to force Mr. Zhang Rong (in his 40s) to give up his belief, the center
head Yan with two "companion personnel" took Zhang Rong outside of the
center for a "walk and rest." When Yan realized that Zhang Rong had
made up his mind to cultivate Dafa, he got angry. Departing from his normal
behavior, he locked the metal door to the second floor of the business building
during the daytime and did not allow the Dafa practitioners to eat their lunch.
Zhang Rong was a teacher at Xinzhuang Township Middle School, Hui'ning County. The head of the brainwashing center once slandered Master Li recklessly and
attacked Dafa. He forced many people to give up practicing cultivation in Dafa.
(Recently his father had surgery for stomach cancer. After the surgery, he had
intestine ulceration, and was on the verge of death). I once was on a hunger strike for eight days in this center. During those
eight days, the evildoers forced me to clean the brainwashing center yard.
Sometimes they forced me to carry a sprayer containing 20-30 lb of insecticide
spray to kill flies. The evil people had persuaded the leading personnel from Baiyin District's
Education Bureau, the leading personnel of the school, my aged father and others
who had given up cultivating Dafa to plead with me to stop my hunger strike. I
was not persuaded. Until the eighth day, seven to eight evil people forced me on
a bed and tied me to the bed with ropes. They had medical personnel from nearby
medical clinics force-feed me. The center head Yan slapped my face and cursed me
with dirty words. During the force-feeding, the inside of my inner lips were
punctured and bleeding, yet they were unable to force any food into me. They
then forced me to have an infusion. I was infused with three bottle of liquid.
Later I was forced to stop the hunger strike. I escaped from the evil den with
righteous thoughts. Ms. Wang Hui (in her 40s) is an employee of Baiyin Corporation's Employees'
Hospital. When she was sent to the 1st Provincial Labor Camp, she did
not pass the physical examination and the labor camp refused to detain her
there. She was also sent to the brainwashing center and was handcuffed upon her
arrival. The persecutors assigned four personnel to watch her. Wang Hui went on
a hunger strike for nine days, and the evildoers also fed her with brutal
forces. 3. Deception In order to have Dafa practitioner give up their belief, evildoing police
promised practitioners and their families that they can go back to work and
receive a full salary if they give up Falun Gong. In reality, their bargaining
chip, to promise full employment, is our basic right. 4. Brainwashing using "loved ones" In brainwashing center, the enforcers had family member and friends come in
to help brainwash the practitioners. They use parents, children, spouses,
colleagues and friends. Small numbers of people who were not solid in studying
and understanding the Fa failed to pass this test and deviated from the Fa. Most
practitioners were able to keep righteous thought and stayed as true
practitioners. 5. Intimidation with false charges Once the so-called "Five
Hearts" and "Love and Caring"(brainwashing tactics) failed to
transform practitioners, the fiends peeled off their masks and began to show
their real faces. They repeated the lies from the government media and accused
practitioners of all kinds of horrible crimes. 6. Brutal torture -- Tiger Bench For those who did not give up
Falun Gong at the end of the three-month-brainwashing sessions, the Tiger Bench
would be used to torture practitioners. The Tiger Bench is a cruel torture
method: a practitioner's arms are pulled back and up; both hands are cuffed to
two large steel rings; the legs are tied down to two steel rings on the bench;
the knees are pressed against a steel bar. The person sits on a small metal
plate no more than 4 cm (1.6 inches) wide. Practitioner Bai Yujun from Jingyuan
County was put on the tiger bench for two hours. Jiang Zhengguang from Huining
was tortured for 11 hours on the Tiger bench. One day, an evildoer saw practitioner Zhang Rong, a school teacher, send
forth righteous thoughts during the day. Zhang Junshan, a 56 year-old man who
used to be the economics administrator at Baiyin City' court, policeman Wu Kelin,
a 55 year- old man and Mr. Yang, a 35 year-old city Science Committee staffer,
rushed to teacher Zhang's room. They claimed that teacher Zhang openly practices
Falun Gong, and teacher Zhang would have to be punished. Undaunted by the
threats, Teacher Zhang continued sending forth righteous thoughts. At the end,
the perpetrators failed to do anything. Now policeman Wu Kelin is very ill
because he did too many bad deeds. As results, he often feels dizzy, sweaty and
weak. Zhang Junshan always looks ill and tired. 7. Threatened with solitary confinement, forced labor and jail terms In addition to physical tortures, the persecutors also used the threats of
solitary confinement, forced labor camps and jail sentences to intimidate
practitioners. In three brainwashing sessions, except for two practitioners who
were unconditionally released, 15 practitioners were forced to stop practicing
Dafa. One person was very determined at the beginning but gave in to the evil
after 18 days of solitary confinement and other persecution. Now, three practitioners are suffering in this detention center: Wang
Lianzhen from Sitan Township, Jingtai County; Wang Hui, a staffer from Baiyun's
company hospital; Zhang Rong, a teacher from the Xinzhuang Middle School in
Huining County. Please pay attention to the brutal persecution against human
rights in the Baiyin City Brainwashing Center. We encourage conscientious people
to stand up and condemn the crimes against Falun Gong practitioners at the hands
of Jiang's regime. *"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. **Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban
worker in China is 500 Yuan.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/9/7/56925.html
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