(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner, Mr. Tan Chengqiang from
Hongcheng Village, Handian Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province died
from being persecuted and tortured. His oldest son, Tan Enlong, his second son,
Tan Enfei, daughter, Tan Yuxiu, and wife, Guo Jinglan, must now depend on each
other. They support themselves by farming a small 1.65 acre plot of land. The five members of Mr. Tan Chengqiang's family: Mr. Tan Chengqiang, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Handian Town, Shuangcheng
City, Heilongjiang Province, died wrongfully from persecution on July 19, 2003. All five members of Mr. Tan Chengqiang's family happily started practicing
Falun Dafa in 1995. In August 1999, Mr. Tan Chengqiang was detained for fifteen
days because he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. In October
that same year, he was sentenced to two years at the Yimianpo Forced Labor Camp
for going to Beijing to appeal again. On May 18, 2003, he was reported by the
village head, Wang Hongsheng, and villager Liu Hongguo, while he was clarifying
the truth of Falun Dafa to the local people. At 4:00 a.m. on May 21, he was
arrested and taken to the Second Detention Center. During the detention, Mr. Tan
Chengqiang went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The police in the
detention center forcibly fed him several times, twice a day. One day, a drunken
doctor came to force feed Mr. Tan Chengqiang, and the doctor improperly inserted
the feeding tube, putting it into Mr. Tan's lung. Instantly, Mr. Tan Chengqiang
started to spit up massive amounts of blood. A person grabbed a basin and
collected half of a basin of blood. Mr. Tan immediately lost consciousness. The
doctor said, "He is pretending." The doctor asked other people to pour
cold water over Mr. Tan to wake him up. At that time, Mr. Tan was struggling for
his life. Even in that condition, the doctor forcibly fed him an additional
seven or eight times. It was only when he was on his Death Bed">Death Bed that they sent
him to the hospital. He was diagnosed with water accumulation and deterioration
of his lungs. This was completely the responsibility of the police. The hospital
could not treat Mr. Tan's life-threatening condition. Fearing the responsibility
for his death, on June 20, 2003, the staff at the Shuangcheng Detention Center
ordered Mr. Tan's family to take him home. When Mr. Tan was taken home, he was
already as thin as a stick and his cheeks were dark purple. In the month he
stayed home, he coughed up blood all day long for several days. Finally, he died
on the evening of July 19, 2003. He left behind his wife and three children. October 10, 2004
Tan Enlong, 16, attends Zhaolin High School, a model high school in Shuangcheng
City.
Tan Enfei, 13, is a student at the Hongcheng Elementary School.
Tan Yuxiu, 19, quit school due to the poor economic situation of her family, and
now stays home to help her mother.
Ms. Guo Jinglan, 39, is a farmer.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/10/10/86280.html