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A Policewoman at the Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Center: "It's No Easy Job Making a Living Like This. Stop the Persecution Now!" By a Policewoman at the Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Center February 1, 2004 (Clearwisdom.net) I am a supervisor in the Heilongjiang Provincial Drug
Rehabilitation Center. I used to be an atheist, one who does not believe in
either God or Buddha. After encountering Falun Gong practitioners, I have
completely changed my view. Initially, all Falun Gong practitioners were sent in because they went to
Beijing to peacefully appeal for Falun Gong. They were placed under forced labor
for telling others "Falun Dafa Is Great." We followed the Party's traditional
guidelines of education and persuasion in order to so-called "transform" them. Then more practitioners were sent here. Some had distributed leaflets, and
some were implicated for inserting signals into cable TV broadcasts. (For
example, over 100 people were sent to our facility in April 2002 when Falun Gong
contents were shown on TV in Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province.) In addition,
there were also some practitioners who were arrested simply for not giving up
their belief. The more the inmates, the harder it got to transform them. Our
superiors were worried. From November 12 through November 15, 2002, we organized
an all-out campaign to transform Falun Gong practitioners. Chen, chief of the center, mobilized everyone in the facility before the
campaign, including heads of class, supervisors, and ordinary inmates. Bonus
compensations were allocated. As for inmates, reduction of sentence terms was
promised. We first unevenly cut the hair of steadfast Falun Gong practitioners
and then dragged them to underground cells. Both of their hands were tied up to
rings on the ground so that they had to crouch down all the time. The
practitioners were deprived of sleep day and night. Their eyes were blindfolded,
and gags were stuck into their mouths. (A long piece of cloth was tied into a
knot in the middle, which was inserted into the practitioner's mouth, while both
ends of the piece of cloth were then tied together at the back of the
practitioner's head.) A basin of water was placed behind the practitioner, such
that if she tried to sit down, she had to sit in water. My colleagues held one practitioner down in the water for nine hours. Some
practitioners were held in the water while steel buckets were placed over their
heads. Electricity was applied to the bucket, and it didn't take long before
practitioners thus tortured passed out. The inmates also stripped practitioners
down to their underwear and then poured cold water over them so the
practitioners shuddered in cold. Some practitioners were tied up to the bed,
their mouths gagged with a towel. Then an electrically charged torturing device
was inserted into the practitioner's vagina. A practitioner being thus tortured
could not yell out, but one could see how badly she struggled.... I have often relived those scenes in my nightmares. And I have been
wondering: Is this what we, the people's policemen and policewomen, should be
doing? The law we have been citing to educate the Falun Gong practitioners
dictates, "The law punishes people who have committed acts of crime, and it does
not intervene on people's thoughts." But what's the goal of our transformation?
Isn't it a kind of mental persecution against them that exactly targets their
thoughts? We all know that they are simply cultivating
Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance in order to become better people. Some of the practitioners continued to practice Falun Gong, and they are
being punished by being forced to stay crouched down till midnight when they are
allowed to sleep. As for those who have agreed to be transformed, they have been
given propaganda materials and shown anti-Falun Gong videos. They also have to
write diaries and periodical reports to remain brainwashed. For those who have
recently arrived, harsh measures of handcuffing and isolated incarceration are
called for. These newly-arrived practitioners are even deprived of washing and
sleep till they agree to being "transformed." Now let's take a look at those who have agreed to be transformed. Some have
got sick again, some became handicapped. From the expression in their eyes, one
can tell how painful it is for them. They have said that this is the retribution
they have incurred by giving up practicing Falun Gong. Also, there are some practitioners who have published solemn statements that
they will resume practicing Falun Gong. These practitioners are sent to small
cells and placed on iron chairs. If a single practitioner has made such a
statement, inmates in the entire class will be punished by extension of
education terms and suffer from tortures such as being suspended with hands
handcuffed high above their heads. In my observation, those steadfast
practitioners are mostly highly-educated and seldom speak. They are of high
moral standards and never argue with others. As a matter of fact, everybody has a benevolent side. It grieves us when we
see those good people under torture. Many of us would like to bring some joy and
peace to these practitioners. However, Chen, who is in charge of the facility,
brigade head Zhang Ping, regiment heads Zhao Wei and Li Quanming, and directors
Ni Lixin and Niu Xiaoyun have focused on the transformation of Falun Gong
practitioners by following orders from their superiors. We have been instructed
to follow the thoughts of each individual practitioner. Inmates on criminal
charges and those who have been transformed have been assigned to keep an eye on
steadfast practitioners. There are still practitioners who remain steadfast in
their belief no matter how much labor is forced onto them or no matter how often
they are made to watch the brainwashing video programs about two monks or to
read misleading books. I have known about practitioners who simply have been
doing Falun Gong exercises for half a month, and their years of illnesses
disappeared. Those of us who have been involved in the transformation all feel exhausted.
Some of the guards have gotten sick, and some even died. When are these
fruitless efforts going to end? How could we face those innocent people? Jiang
Zemin has been put on trial in several countries overseas, and if there is
retribution based on cause and effect, what is in store for those of us who
participated in the persecution? It is really no easy job in this line of work.
Stop the persecution, now! Not just from the perspective of Falun Gong, but also
for our own good! Posting date: 2/25/2004 |