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Righteous Thoughts Show Their Mighty Power and Frighten the Evil (Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Chen, a 62-year-old practitioner in China, was sent to a
forced labor camp for appealing for fair treatment for Falun Dafa by traveling
to Beijing. On December 27, 2001, he was transferred to the notorious
Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Arriving at the camp, Mr. Chen started to clarify the truth
to the local officials and policemen, stating also that he did not violate any
law and that he did not accept or recognize forced labor education. He stated
that Dafa practitioners were good people who behave according to
"Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance." He refused to wear the prison
nametag issued by the labor camp since he was not a criminal. Yet, the labor
camp authorities did not listen to him and locked him up in a small cell. In that small cell, one can neither stand up straight nor lie
down. One can only stay in a fixed and very painful position. Also, Mr. Chen was
given only one bowl of noodle soup per day. Mr. Chen was locked up in the small
cell for one month straight. Even after the small cell torture, Mr. Chen still
refused to wear the prison nametag. The police then threatened to extend his
term until he agreed to wear it. But Mr. Chen feared nothing and kept doing what
he thought he was supposed to do. He had come here and would clarify the truth
about the persecution of Falun Dafa. He looked for all the officials and policemen and told them
the facts about the persecution of Dafa. He wrote letters to all the officials
and guards to tell them about the benefits that Falun Gong had brought to
society, as well as the consequences of persecuting Dafa and practitioners.
Later, whenever the leaders in the camp heard that Mr. Chen wanted to talk to
them, they would become anxious and claim they had no time to see him. Once after Police Officer Wang Tao beat Mr. Chen severely for
no reason, Mr. Chen still refused to renounce his belief and said he was ready
to protect his rights by legal means, and that he was going to sue Wang Tao.
Wang Tao knew he had committed a crime and was afraid of being fired. Wang asked
many people to talk to Mr. Chen and eventually asked the unit chief Gao Tiecheng
to talk to Mr. Chen to withdraw the lawsuit. The chief talked to Mr. Chen for an
entire morning and the whole unit did not work that morning. Because of Mr.
Chen's righteous thoughts and righteous actions, the evil was restrained. As a
result, in the ensuing political directive named by the high level authorities
as the "Battle against fortified positions," of which the purpose was
to force Falun Gong practitioners in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp to
renounce their belief, Mr. Chen was the only practitioner in Unit #6 excluded
from this persecution. The camp guards confined him in a single cell and ordered
two people to watch him. They tried to keep him from seeing or knowing about
other practitioners being beaten and persecuted. While I was confined with Mr. Chen, he always appeared to be
firm and righteous, with the proper demeanor of a Dafa practitioner. On the day
his term ended, the camp had all his paperwork prepared ahead of time and
released him right on schedule. All the threats of term extensions were
retracted. As he left, there was even a burst of firecrackers outside the gate,
from an unknown source, to welcome him home. February 18, 2004 Posting date: 3/15/2004 |