(Clearwisdom.net) Around October 1st (National Day), 2004, the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners spread to every town and village in Inner Mongolia Province. Inner Mongolia Province is a place with large areas of desert, a poor economy and a lower standard of living than its surrounding areas. It is also one of the regions where practitioners are persecuted most severely.

The Political and Juridical Committee and the 610 Office in Ewenke Village (in the township of Bayantuohai) in the city of Hulunbeier followed higher officials' orders and established a brainwashing center in the local area. In order to achieve their goals, they asked for help from the heads of Hulunbeier City Political and Juridical Committee and the 610 Office. Two of the participants were Wang Dongyou and Tian Pu. In addition, they asked collaborators (former Falun Gong practitioners who have turned against Dafa as a result of brainwashing and torture) in the Hailaer District for assistance such as Liu Yaoguo in the City Procurator's Office, and Du Chunling in Yifu Elementary School. They also asked teachers in the local Party Schools to participate. In the class, they forced practitioners to listen to diatribes which defamed Falun Dafa and slandered Teacher, and they forced many practitioners to write the "Three Statements" announcing that they would give up the practice and denounce Dafa.

On October 6, they kidnapped Dafa practitioner Ma Liang. On the first day after arriving at the brainwashing center, Ma Liang went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal persecution. She also sent forth righteous thoughts all the time to destroy the persecutors' plans. Meanwhile, after the local Dafa practitioners heard about this, they all realized that the persecution of fellow practitioners equated to being persecuted themselves. Whether or not a practitioner has an omission, he or she should not be persecuted. They also realized that because of Ma Liang's arrest it was necessary to clarify the truth face to face with the local government and law enforcement departments.

Thus, with righteous thoughts the local practitioners decided to have five practitioners as representatives to clarify the truth to the local government and to request the release of Ma Liang. Meanwhile, other practitioners stayed at home and sent forth righteous thoughts to support the event. Early Monday morning on October 8, five practitioners went to the Ewenke Village government, Political and Juridical Committee, 610 Office, and local People's Congress, hoping to clarify the truth. However, the offices were closed. Dafa practitioners then went to the police department and talked with the person-in-charge. Practitioners talked about the persecution over the past five years, and requested that they release Ma Liang; otherwise, all of them would go to Beijing to appeal. Under pressure from the practitioners, they released Ma Liang on the same day (October 8). This illustrated to the practitioners that the Fa-rectification has proceeded to this step and it is a Dafa disciples' great mission to put down all human attachments, to eradicate dark minions and rotten demons, and to save sentient beings.

During this process of eliminating evil and rescuing practitioners, Ma Liang's family members were very supportive. During those three days, they had been to the brainwashing center many times to request the release of Ma Liang, and asked the persecutors for documents to expose their policy of forced transformation. They also told the officials they would be held responsible for all the consequences. One of the persecutors, Wang Dongyou, said furiously, "I have conducted many transformation classes, and it has never been like this." Several collaborators planned to come and help with the brainwashing; however, under the great righteous field, they did not show up.

Through the rescue of Ma Liang, practitioners understood further that we are one body. If someone else is persecuted, it is the same as we ourselves being persecuted. Joining together, Dafa practitioners are powerful as one body. With Teacher and with the Fa, no evil can last long. Moreover, what the dark minions and rotten demons are doing is their last strike. We need to have righteous thoughts, not human notions.

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