Deaths and Injuries of Falun Dafa Practitioners Occurring From the Savage Treatment at the Baimiao Forced Labor Camp
By a Falun Gong practitioner from Henan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) There have been many cases of deaths and serious injuries
of prisoners at the Baimiao Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province.
The Baimiao Forced Labor Camp is one of the locations where the treatment of
Falun Gong practitioners is particularly savage. The Baimiao Forced Labor Camp established three divisions for producing goods
in 2003, and so the slave labor commenced. Other than the group normally
finishing the electrical controllers, the prisoners have to perform ten hours of
labor a day. Sometimes the overtime extends the workday to more than twenty
hours of continuous labor per day. The production jobs mainly involve handwork
like folding pages and stapling them into books, peeling garlic, cutting paper,
folding paper bags, and packaging monosodium glutamate (a flavor enhancer, also
known as MSG). The Forced Labor Camp consists of the Director, Deputy director, Secretary,
and Political Committee, supported by the Administration Section, Education
Section, the "610 Office" (1), Disciplinary Section, Production Section, and the
Marketing Section. The minds of the guards in the Camp have been dangerously
poisoned. The vicious treatment of the detainees at the Camp by the main
supervising officers was looked upon as normal management. The savage beating
and torture of Falun Gong practitioners were part of the regular duties of the
guards. Around February 2003, there were two extremely vicious cases of serious
maltreatment that led to deaths. The leader and members of the First Brigade
seriously injured Li Chao, a seventeen year-old youth from Zhongmou County. The
reason for the guards assault upon him was that the youth did not have the
physical strength to withstand the excessive demands of the slave labor. Li Chao
continuously had a high fever. To conceal the real situation, and to avoid the
hospital staff discovering the wounds from the vicious beatings, the head guard
would not allow the youth to see a doctor. The condition of this young person
deteriorated and he died in prison. After this happened, the higher officials at the Camp tried to evade their
responsibility in this matter by claiming that the young man died only after
normal procedures were used to try to save him. Shortly after this happened, the main leader of the work group of that
section, following orders from the police, seriously wounded some of the other
regular criminal inmates forced to work in the camp. The regular inmates
retaliated and wounded the work group leader by splashing concentrated sulfuric
acid on his face and breaking his fingers in a physical fight. Because the senior officers in the "610 Office" assigned a "transformation
quota" to the Camp staff, and even rewarded the section leaders and other
oppressive officials bonuses as performance incentives, the leaders were allowed
and even encouraged to continue their vicious treatment of Dafa practitioners
detained in the labor camp. The senior officers never bothered to investigate
the details of the vicious treatment. The forced labor camp started a persecution campaign using cruel and savage
means against Falun Gong practitioners in 2001, in order to force them to
renounce their belief in Falun Dafa. Song Xu was the first to be tortured at
that time. He was tied to a bed with each of his four limbs stretched in
opposite directions, and then the bed was turned upside down. He was left
stretched and painfully hanging in that position for as long as six hours. He
was also force-fed and had some of his teeth were broken in the process. He was
sexually abused by having a rod forcibly inserted into his rectum. He was also
wrapped in a blanket, tied up with ropes and left in this position for a long
time, while being deprived of the right to use the toliet. His body was greatly
devastated by this. Because Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Quan Peijun from the Shangjie Region
defended his right to practice Falun Gong, he was arrested and hung up by ropes
eight times. Both his arms and shoulders were severely injured. The authorities
shocked him with an extra high voltage electrical baton, all over his body
repeatedly for several hours at a time. The resulting sores on his chest became
infected and he was covered in festering wounds from the burns created by the
electrical shock. In the middle of November 2002, Baimiao was ordered by senior level officers
to torture Falun Gong practitioners with electric batons, beatings, and to prop
their heads on sharp triangular iron pieces to prevent them from sleeping. Some
of the practitioners had portions of their scalps ripped out during the torture. Falun Gong practitioner Han Guoquan was forced to wear a helmet, had his
shoes and socks removed, his legs tied together, and was shocked all over his
body with a high voltage electric baton. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Yuanheng was subjected to electric shock
with ten electric batons applied simultaneously for several hours. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Ming had his sentence extended for a year
on two occasions for no reason. The Baimiao Forced Labor Camp staff continuously extended the persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners they held in detention. The guards at the Baimiao Forced Labor Camp all knew that Falun Gong
practitioners were good people, as it was well known that those who practice
Falun Gong are exemplary people of high moral character. In order to avoid
having to individually bear the consequences of the persecution in the future,
they decided to torture practitioners collectively so that if anyone was held
responsible for the wrong doings, everyone would have to bear an equal share. On
the afternoon of April 23, 2003, a senior officer at Baimiao Forced Labor Camp
directed the guards to conduct a criticism meeting regarding Falun Gong
practitioners. On the afternoon of April 24, the original team leader of the
Fifth Brigade with the other officers commenced torturing Falun Gong
practitioners Mr. Quan Peijun and Zhang Yuanheng with extra high voltage
electric batons, at the same time viciously beating them. Mr. Zhang Yuanheng
shouted loudly "Falun Dafa is good!" as he was being tortured. His voice and the
sizzling sound of the shocks from the electric batons could be heard all over
the camp. One night, on April 24, the original members of the Third Brigade consisting
of ten police officers under the supervision of Li Xichuan, the ringleader of
the "610 Office", commenced a new round of cruel and savage treatment of Falun
Gong practitioners. The leader of the Main Brigade, Zuo Zhiguo, referred to this
barbaric action as "Spring Thunder." The guards Ma Donghui, Ren Wanqiang, Liu
Wei, Yang Weidong, and He Xianglong brutally attacked the practitioners. In an
attack, the shins of Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Shucan were ripped open. He
was subjected to electric shocks with six electric batons simultaneously. Both
of his lower limbs were swollen and had severe bleeding under the skin. His legs
went limp as all the muscles were seriously injured. The police officers were even more ruthless in dealing with Dafa practitioner
Xu Xieqia. When he first arrived at the camp, he was force-fed with a
concentrated salt solution until his stomach bled. Thereafter he was deprived of
sleep for a long time. Then, police officers Yang Weidong, Ren Wanqiang, Ma
Donghui, and He Xianglong, under the supervision of Zuo Zhiguo, used four
electric batons simultaneously to shock Xu Xieqia. After the electric shock, the
criminal inmates Zhao Guosheng, Feng Jun and two others were ordered to severely
beat him. They used thick electric cables to whip him till there were bruises
all over his body. The criminal inmates used a blanket to cover his head so that
he could not shout. He was beaten until he became incontinent. The original
assistant leader of the Third Brigade, Liu Wei directly ordered the criminal
inmates to commit acts of violence against Falun Dafa practitioners and in the
future and he will not be able to avoid punishment for his crimes. In the middle of the night, the Intermediate Brigade staff also began
electrically shocking Zhang Zikun. Zhang suffered his scalp splitting open and a
bone in his neck becoming fractured when he rammed his head against a wall due
to the torture. After Zhang Zikun injured himself against the wall, the leader
not only did not stop the torture, he shouted angrily: "That is nothing!" The Forced Labor Camp directed criminal inmates to viciously attack Falun
Gong practitioners. On August 28, 2003, practitioner Xu Xieqia and others were
forced to watch a propaganda video entitled "Innocent Life", which was created
to fabricate lies and incite hatred against Falun Dafa. After viewing the film
the practitioners were forced to write down their impressions of the video,
which was actually an exercise to force them to write that they agreed with the
current political position against Falun Dafa. Xu Xieqia and Li Lemin refused to
comply. As a result, criminal inmates Liu Jie, Lei Ming, Li Zongguo, Zhang Qian
and two others pushed the practitioners down and took turns using a wooden club
to beat them. Xu Xieqia was bleeding profusely all over from the beatings and
could not walk normally. After guard Liu Wei learned about the beatings, not
only did he not stop them he reminded Liu Jie to continue the assaults, but to
be careful not to leave any visible injuries. All injuries should be internal
ones. Therefore, on the next day, criminal inmate Lei Ming, covered the chest of
Zhao Shucan with a pillow and rained blows on him. The "thud, thud" sound of the
beating could be heard throughout the entire Brigade area. When the Judiciary
Department conducted an investigation into the beatings and injuries,
practitioner Xu Xieqia exposed the facts of the incident in his answers in a
questionnaire, the police officers used the criminal inmates to retaliate and
take revenge. Four criminal inmates were assigned to supervise each Falun Gong
practitioner twenty-four hours a day. The original instructor of the Third Brigade, He Xianglong, publicly declared
that the criminal inmates supervising Falun Gong practitioners were allowed to
beat them at will. Police officer He Xianglong even said: "Although these drug
addicts and pick-pockets are bad, they can be used to viciously beat up and
torture Falun Gong practitioners who are good people!" The assistant instructor and guard, Liu Wei, was one of the main perpetrators
in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the Third Main Brigade. He
publicly declared: "Falun Gong practitioners are good people, but even good
steel needs to be bent as needed!" Liu Wei declared to the criminal inmates that
he oversaw: "You must be brave in your supervision," meaning "You may beat them
at will, do not worry!" The assistant instructor of the Fifth Brigade, Song Yanling, did not even
spare Mr. Li Dianjun, who was nearly 60 years old and who was very weak after
being on a hunger strike for 20 days. Mr. Li was so badly beaten that he was
bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth. In addition to the physical punishment, Dafa practitioners were forced to
work for more than twenty hours continuously doing hard labor beyond their
physical limit. The police spared no effort to conceal their crimes, even to the extent of
colluding with senior officers of the "610 Office" to hide the practices of
vicious beatings and torture of the Dafa practitioners, and completely blocking
all news from reaching the outside world or to the relatives of the victims.
When the senior officials went to inspect the camp, the guards would force Falun
Gong practitioners to say that they were not beaten, that they were speaking of
their own accord, and that they had never been ill-treated. But when the senior
officials left, they would immediately commence their vicious attacks on the
Dafa practitioners. The original Third Brigade Assistant Instructor, Liu Wei
told Mr. Xu Xieqia publicly: "You go and report! Tell them we have beaten you so
that you will renounce your belief!" The guards at the forced labor camp not only tortured Falun Gong
practitioners, they also persecuted the family members of the practitioners by
threatening them. The parents of Han Guoquan in the Fifth Brigade was so
frightened by their threats that they kneeled in front of the guards, begging
them not to harm their son. There were other Dafa practitioners at the Forced Labor Camp that were
persecuted: Quan Peijun (Staff member of the Changchen Aluminum Industry
Company, Shangjie Region), Xu Xiaoguo (Resident of Guanxiang, Yingyang City), Fu
Zhenyong (Elderly person, Retired staff member of the Coal Mining Machinery
Factory, Zhengzhou City), Hou Jinyou (Farmer from Sima Village, Gaocun town,
Yingyang City), Zhu Yunlong (Staff member of the Electric Cables Factory,
Zhengzhou City), Hua Feng (Resident of Jinshui Region, Zhengzhou City), and Zhao
Shucan (Staff member of the Department of Goods and Materials, Xinzheng City,
residing at Hougaozhuang Village, Xindian Town) What is reported here is only a small portion of the atrocities committed at
the Baimiao Forced Labor Camp. The persecution occurring there is beyond the
imagination of ordinary people. Even senior officials in the same department
feel that the "work methods" of the officers at the Baimiao Forced Labor Camp
are too harsh. Those senior officials at the Public Security Department who know
what the camp guards are doing feel that they are taking great risks with their
own futures. The guards at the forced labor camp do know that their criminal actions will
bring heavy retribution. Every time they receive a phone call from overseas
practitioners, they shudder. Whenever they receive mail from practitioners
outside of China, they become very irritated and upset. On the one hand they
want to earn bonuses for getting practitioners to renounce their belief. This
pursuit of money allowed them to take harsh unconscionable actions against Falun
Gong practitioners. On the other hand, the guards were also terrified of being
shunned by society for their shameless and cruel actions. We appeal to all righteous people to continue to phone and write letters
exposing the wanton actions of the police officers at the Baimiao Forced Labor
Camp and rescue the Dafa practitioners that are being persecuted there. (1) "610 Office": a bureau specifically created by the Chinese
government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of
administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary
branches.
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