Three Fellow Practitioners Involved With Minghui Were Killed as a Result of the Persecution (Part I)
By a Chinese practitioner living in USA
(Clearwisdom.net) The creation and distribution of Minghui articles is a
collaboration of Dafa disciples in and out of China. The process of distribution
centers in China, collecting materials, sending information, printing materials
in mass quantities and exposing the persecution has produced many touching
stories. The Dafa disciples in Mainland China have given up everything,
including their lives, while in the harshest environment and under the most
difficult material constraints, they have quietly established, safeguarded, and
expanded Minghui's channels for receiving and distributing information. Please allow me to introduce these three fellow practitioners in China to
everyone in a new light. Wang Chan originally worked in Beijing, but had to leave his home due to
the persecution and returned to his hometown in Shandong. Not only did he work
with Minghui--he brought along Dafa disciples in different locations as well. In
a few short years, Wang Chan's footsteps could be traced to several provinces
and dozens of cities--becoming one of the most reliable Minghui coordinators in
China. The role of a coordinator was something that emerged naturally. The state
that he cultivated to led everyone to gravitate to him. Whether it was
establishing and safeguarding Minghui's information channels, distributing
Minghui articles and materials widely, or leading everyone in improving
diligently during Fa-rectification cultivation, Wang Chan's contributions were
enormous. Yuan Jiang was a Qinghua University alumnus who became the head of the
Gansu Province assistance center. After the persecution began in 1999, he led
the local practitioners of Gansu province to join in the Fa-rectification. He
became the local coordinator for Minghui and was a part of many important
projects. He made incalculable contributions in establishing the working
relationship between Minghui and local practitioners, organizing sources for
Minghui articles, establishing materials distribution centers, establishing and
safeguarding information channels for Minghui, as well as using good Minghui
articles discussing the Fa-principles to foster local practitioners' improvement
during cultivation. Li Zhongmin was a very steadfast cultivator. He was captured, imprisoned,
and beaten multiple times, but broke out of the evil's den with righteous
thoughts, completely baffling the evil. After Zhongmin was forced leave home, he
quietly did the three things a Fa-rectification disciple should do, and became a
liaison for Minghui in China. He was exceptionally diligent in ensuring the
material center's operation, his own cultivation, and going out to clarify the
truth. The fellow practitioners around him saw his actions, and this had a
powerful cohesive effect. The below are some details about these three fellow practitioners that we are
able to share. (Because the persecution has not yet ended, we will not get into
the specifics of how Minghui operates in order to protect other Mainland Chinese
practitioners.) Wang Chan Wang Chan, 39, male, 1.78 m tall. He graduated from Shandong Institute of
Industry (former name of Shandong University), and was employed at the central
office of the People's Bank of China. He was recognized as a top technical
manager with strong skills and accomplishments. Wang Chan was one of the first practitioners who understood early on the
importance of clarifying the truth to the general public. He put his
understanding into action and led many other practitioners in the important task
of clarifying the truth. As soon as the persecution began in 1999, Wang Chan sent letters clarifying
the truth about Dafa to various provincial and municipal governments all over
China, eliciting a strong response. He also wrote to Chairman Jiang Zemin,
asking him to stop violating the law in persecuting Falun Gong. Faced with the
facts, Jiang Zemin refused to stop his actions and personally approved putting
Wang Chan in jail for three months. Because of the persecution, Wang Chan was forced to leave his workplace and
wander. He became thin but was quite healthy. He did everything with dignity and
in an upright way, with a tolerant heart. He treated everyone with frankness and
engaging in conversation, always leaving the best things for others. Wang Chan
was also very steadfast in his cultivation. During the three years of his forced
homelessness, Wang had traveled to many places, set up numerous sites to produce
Dafa materials, helped practitioners to improve their understanding of the Fa
and helped many practitioners to improve, step forward, and join in the Fa-rectification. According to the recollections of a fellow practitioner, Wang Chan traveled
to every corner of China carrying with him six large bags He used up all of his
savings--200,000 Yuan--for Fa-rectification. He bought five copiers, and five
computers and printers. He left the footprints of Fa-rectification everywhere he
went. The officials hated him and were so afraid of him that they offered 100,000
Yuan as a bounty for his capture. While eluding capture, he became thinner and
thinner, but no matter how the evil pursued him in their frenzy, he never
doubted Dafa and nobody could stop him from clarifying the truth. He once said
to a fellow practitioner, "No matter how harsh and evil the persecution is,
we simply follow what Teacher requires us to do, and no one can do anything to
us." On the afternoon of August 21, Jining policeman Guo Hongtao unlawfully
arrested Wang Chan at the bus station of Liangshan County, Shandong Province. In the detention center, he was severely tortured. The police punched and
kicked him, handcuffed his hands behind their backs and hung them up beating
them with rubber clubs. The police could not get any information out of him, so
they detained him at the Jining detention center. Later on, the police
shamelessly kidnapped Wang Chan's mother who is over 60 years old after they
found out Wang Chan's real name. Prior to Wang Chan's illegal arrest, the Police Ministry had issued the order
to arrest him without delay. Therefore, in order to arrest him, the Police
Ministry specifically dispatched policemen to Jining City, Shandong Province. After Wang Chan was captured, the policemen were overjoyed, thinking that
this was their big chance to get rich. This was especially true with the
policeman Guo Hongtao. In the Jining Detention Center, Guo kept Wang Chan from
sleeping for several days and nights, continuously interrogating him. Relying on
the immovable will power bestowed on him by Dafa, Wang Chan remained steadfast
and did not give the evil any opportunities to cause damage. Out of frustration,
they tortured him ferociously. On August 28, 2002, Wang Chan was tortured to death by Guo Hongtao and others
while being held at the Jining Detention Center. According to an eyewitness,
Wang Chan's body showed severe bleeding from the head, which is quite likely the
cause of death. After Wang Chan's death, the local public security bureau and 610 Office
threatened his family not to leak any information, saying that his two brothers
would lose their jobs if they did. The local authorities cremated his body
against family wishes. Yuan Jiang Yuan Jiang was born into a family of educators. His father was a professor
and head of department at the Northwest Normal University and his mother was a
high school teacher. Yuan Jiang graduated from the Department of Computer
Science in Qinghua University in July of 1995. He started practicing Falun Gong
in 1993 when he was a student, one of the first in Qinghua University. After
graduation, he returned to Gansu province and became the head of the assistance
center of Gansu province. He was also the Vice Chairman of the Information
Technology Engineering Company under the Gansu Province Telecommunications
Bureau in the city of Lanzhou. He passed away on November 9, 2001 as a result of
torture at age 29. Before his cultivation of Dafa, Yuan Jiang suffered from many diseases. He
even had to interrupt his schooling for a year because of his poor health.
However, he had a deep predestined connection with Dafa, and participated in
four of Teacher's classes. Ever since he started to learn Dafa, he experienced
great changes in his body and mind. In August 1994, after a Qinghua University
professor attended Master's lecture in Harbin, he established a practice site at
Qinghua University, and Yuan Jiang became one of the first participants at the
practice site. During that time, he persisted in studying and reciting the Fa
everyday, repeatedly stressing the importance of studying the Fa. Yuan Jiang and
other early-period Dafa disciples at Qinghua studied the Fa and practice the
exercises everyday, establishing a firm foundation for promoting Dafa at Qinghua
and in the surrounding areas. The following is a recollection by a Qinghua alumnus who is currently in
England: "When Master gave a lecture at the initial publishing ceremony of Zhuan
Falun in Beijing on January 4, 1995, there were many practitioners in
Beijing and people could only get in with a ticket. The Qinghua practice site
got only a few tickets, and I got one of them. One of my classmates just started
practicing Falun Gong, and I thought how wonderful it would be for him to see
Master! While I knew he didn't have a ticket, I dragged him along to the
auditorium where Master was giving his lecture. "After Yuan Jiang found out, he gave his ticket to my classmate, while
he waited for a chance to get into the auditorium outside in the cold. He
displayed what it meant to be a Dafa disciple with his own actions. "Yuan Jiang was always full of compassion and kindness in everything he
did, leaving behind a deep impression with those that interacted with him. In
July 1995, he left Qinghua and stepped on a westbound train, beginning his
journey to promote Dafa in the Western provinces. He gave everything he had to
help people see and attain the Fa. "Arriving in Lanzhou, Yuan Jiang actively promoted Dafa in Lanzhou and
the surrounding areas. According to locals, at that time Yuan Jiang practiced
Falun Gong exercises alone every morning on the playground at the Northwest
Normal University. For a long time it was just he and a banner, but he kept on
practicing every day. Within one or two years, the number of people
participating in the practice increased greatly. In the urban area alone, the
number reached tens of thousands. It is almost certain that Yuan Jiang's quiet
yet persistent efforts had greatly contributed to the rapid spread of Falun Dafa
in Gansu Province and the Northwest region of China. "After Yuan Jiang passed away, some fellow disciples remembered that
Yuan Jiang had consistently followed Master's words of "study the Fa
well", and led everyone to study the Fa together. There would be group
study and practice every night, and whenever possible, Yuan Jiang would
participate. Sometimes when he had to work late, he would just buy a couple of
buns and rush to the group study. Whenever he heard that a new practitioner had
not gotten a copy of Zhuan Falun he would always find a way to get a copy
to him or her. When others found out that Yuan Jiang would take advantage of
lunch breaks and the evening to always study the Fa for four or five hours, it
inspired everyone around him to study the Fa more, as well. This created a
wonderful environment for everyone's improvement. "In July 1998, when an incident occurred with the Gansu newspaper, he
sent a letter to the related officials with a cultivator's kindness and
compassion. This led to the officials' publicly admitting fault and sending a
letter of apology. "Between 1998 and 1999, the number of practitioners in Northwest China
grew very rapidly. As a result, Dafa books and materials were in short supply.
Yuan Jiang often used his own salary to buy books from other regions and then
mailed them out to practitioners. The demand for videotapes of Teacher's
lectures exceeded supply all the time, so Yuan bought several hundred tapes with
his savings and sent them out to practitioners who needed them. Whenever a new
practice site was formed, Yuan always used his own money to rent a room so the
new practitioners could watch Teacher's 9-day lecture videotapes. Quite often he
was short of money to the point of having to skip meals for himself. "In the four years between 1995 and 1999, whether it was the sizzling
summer or the frigid winter, ignoring harsh weather conditions and after April
1999, the police tailing him and anti-riot police surrounding us, Yuan Jiang
continued to study the Fa and share experiences with everyone at the same place.
When everyone saw his calm demeanor, they all felt more at ease inside. He would
often say, "Master is here and so is the Fa, what are we afraid of?" "Right before July 20, 1999, the situation got worse, like dark clouds
gathering before a storm. Within and outside of Gansu province, there were many
cases in which the media was increasing its slander against Dafa. At the same
time, many practice sites were harassed and many practitioners were beaten and
abused, and Dafa banners and books confiscated. In private, Yuan Jiang's unit
manager "persuaded" him, and the police threatened him. Yet Yuan did
not abide by their requests. Instead, he stepped forward and acted as the
"representative" of the local practitioners and appealed many times to
government offices." Yuan Jiang was a kind and honest person with outstanding talents. He used to
be the Vice President of the Information Technology Engineering Co., an
affiliate to the Telecommunications Bureau in the city of Lanzhou. He was later
removed from the position and made chief technical executive because he wouldn't
give up practicing Falun Dafa. He was widely recognized in the City
Telecommunications Bureau as one of the leading technical people and
middle-level executives. Based on his age, background, talent, and integrity,
Yuan Jiang seemed to be on a fast track for success, but he was not attached to
fame and fortune. Yuan Jiang was forced to leave his home in January of 2001 to avoid
persecution. He moved from place to place, quietly helping spread the truth of
Falun Dafa. Due to his traveling, he couldn't have meals on a regular basis, but
this never deterred him in spreading the practice. He was not noted for being
eloquent, he often quoted Master succinctly, "Following [the Fa] in everything, (Solid Cultivation. Hong Yin) Yuan Jiang was arrested on September 30, 2001 near Dunhuang, Gansu Province.
The police, while riding a bus without an ID, discovered him. The Ministry of
Public Security in Beijing had just given a secret order at that time for the
police and military forces to stop ten or more practitioners traveling on their
way from Changchun, Jilin Province to Xinjiang Province via the Gansu Corridor.
So the police painstakingly checked all passengers for identification. Upon news of his arrest, those in the police department of Gansu Province
were overjoyed. They used this despicable incident as a bargaining chip to
increase their chances for promotion. Following the requirements of the police
department, the Provincial Telecommunications Bureau provided a garden of theirs
at the back of the White Pagoda Hill in Lanzhou City. It is a place located five
miles away from the downtown area of Lanzhou City, surrounded by mountains
covered with flourishing woods. There are luxurious villas for the high-ranking
officials in the province and those in the Telecommunications Bureau. As the
weather was getting cold and no visitors were seen, the police were pleased to
have such an isolated place with excellent living conditions all to their own.
They quickly moved in, taking with them two truckloads worth of instruments for
conducting torture. As the person responsible in Gansu Province and the local Minghui
coordinator, Yuan Jiang knew so much information. The faces of volunteer
assistants around the country were all in his mind. You can imagine what
happened to him in the following days. For the specific details, we can only
wait for the day when the Fa rectifies the cosmos, when the killers will confess
their crimes one by one. However, we can say with certainty that Yuan Jiang was
indestructible in his will. He didn't betray any practitioners, nor did he turn
back on the pledges he had with Master. They tortured him for nearly two months, using all of their implements of
torture. They hung Yuan up in the air with his 4 limbs stretched apart and beat
him viciously. Finally, seeing that Yuan was on the verge of death, the
persecutors set him down but still kept him in handcuffs and shackles. Knowing
that the wicked people could not be saved, Yuan took off his handcuffs and
shackles with his strong righteous thoughts and escaped from this demon's den.
This happened around October 26, 2001. Because of the long-term torture he had suffered, wounds covered his body.
And because of the hunger strike he had undertaken, Yuan Jiang was extremely
weak. In the cold mountain wilderness, he used all of his strength and climbed
into a cave, where he remained unconscious for 4 days and 4 nights. During this time, the authorities mobilized a force of three thousand
military police and searched extensively for him. They checked and examined
people at every major roadway, railroad and bus station. In addition, almost all
the practitioners' homes in Lanzhou City were searched from top to bottom. The
massive manhunt was even extended to nearby cities and counties. Some
practitioners' doors were pried open, and a practitioner in her 60's was forced
to jump from the 4th floor while trying to escape and broke her back and legs. The sirens faded out. Yuan Jiang literally crawled out of the mountain. In
the darkness of night, he went to another practitioner's home, where he received
good care. But he had a high fever and often fell unconscious, obviously with
some internal injuries. Yuan Jiang tenaciously sustained his life until November
9, 2001. He left the world due to serious injuries he received from the torture. One local practitioner wrote the following to the Minghui website: "After I heard about what happened to you, I felt that I had to see you
no matter what. With help of other practitioners, I was able to catch sight of
you. At that point, you were only skin and bones, emaciated to the point of
being unrecognizable. If a fellow practitioner had not pointed you out, there
was no way I would've believed it was you. Your eyes were squinted, while blood
seeped from your mouth and nose, and you were lying there motionless. At that
moment, my mind went blank, and tears poured down my face. My heart was wracked
with pain. I touched your forehead, and it was already cold. I tugged on your
hand, which was beginning to harden, and when I saw your legs, I almost fell
unconscious. Your entire right leg underneath the kneecap was entirely black!
Your calf had a hand-sized section and the leg's right side had a finger-sized
section that had withered away completely, and the entire leg looked like a
dried out tree branch." After Yuan Jiang passed away, the authorities went to great lengths to cover
up the torture against him. They immediately began a large-scale search and
arrested many practitioners who had assisted in taking care of him. The police
also kept a close watch on his parents.They transferred those who had
participated in killing him one after another, and sent someone to the Siergo
Detention Center, threatening the inmates there: "Yuan Jiang was never
detained here, whoever says so would suffer the consequences!" From August 30, 2001, when he was arrested near Dunhuang, Gansu Province,
until November 9, 2001 when he passed away, the suffering that Yuan Jiang went
through will one day come to light. All of those who participated in causing his
death, if they don't make up for their crimes, will inevitable receive due
punishment from the law and the Heavens! (To be continued)
Compliance is cultivation."
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/1/30/65729.html
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