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How Practitioners Stopped the Brainwashing Class in the Chuanying District, Jilin City By Zhiming, a practitioner in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China
(Clearwisdom.net) Jiang's regime began its evil persecution of Falun Gong
on July 20, 1999. Since then, practitioners have been going to Beijing one after
another to appeal to the government, even though they are often arrested,
detained and tortured. In the meantime, Jiang's regime began to operate
brainwashing classes all over the country to further persecute practitioners and
attempt to force them to renounce Falun Gong. The Political and Judiciary Department and the district "610
Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with
absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other
political and judiciary systems] in the Chuanying District of Jilin City,
Jilin Province began its first phase of brainwashing classes at Yongsheng Hotel
in the Shahezi area of the city on September 10, 1999. There were as many as 70
practitioners abducted and brought to the class at different times. On October 5, 1999, husband and wife practitioners Wang Wenxi and Wang Xiufen
(who was later persecuted to death on January 1, 2002 by the Police Department
in Jiutai City, Jilin Province) were abducted and brought to the brainwashing
class, which had over 30 practitioners at the time. On the same day of her
arrival, Wang Xiufen suggested to the group that they should begin to practice
the exercises in the morning and study the teachings of Falun Gong together
during the day. After a general discussion, the practitioners unanimously
agreed. The next day, all the practitioners came to the yard at five o'clock in the
morning. They formed four columns, males on one side and females on the other.
Wang Xiufen called out the movements, and everyone began to practice the first
set of Dafa exercises all the way through to the fourth set. The scene shocked
the people on guard. No one dared to stop it or report to their higher
authorities. They just watched helplessly. Three days in a row, all the
practitioners did the exercises in the morning and studied Zhuan Falun
during the day [the book, Zhuan Falun, comprises the principal teachings of
Falun Gong]. In the evening, each practitioner did the fifth exercise (the
meditation) by him or herself. Afterwards, Wang Xiufen and some other
practitioners decided that rather than being confined in the class by the evil,
they should walk out of the class and go to Beijing to continue their appeals
for Falun Gong. Subsequently Wang Xiufen successfully left the brainwashing
class with righteous thoughts in her mind. After Wang Xiufen left, Ms. Yang Huixia took over the job of calling out the
movements, and the practitioners continued with their morning exercises. During
the day they also gathered in a room to study the Fa. Finally the evil could not
stand it any longer. The district Political and Judiciary secretary and the
deputy police chief came to the class in person to "negotiate" with
the practitioners. Practitioners Liu Mingwei and another practitioner served as
representatives for the others and raised the following requests and statements:
1) The brainwashing class should unconditionally release all practitioners who
had been illegally abducted; 2) The practitioners should be given back their
legal environment to exercise; and 3) Practitioners shall continue to appeal to
the government to stop the illegal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners; as
long as the persecution continues, practitioners will go to Beijing to appeal at
every opportunity. The officials could not come up with a good counter response, but could not
comply with the practitioners' requests either. So they decided to send those
practitioners who refused to write letters pledging to stop the practice to the
detention center for 15 days. In the meantime, they were forced to close the
brainwashing class. At the time, the practitioners who took part in this action did not feel it
was a big deal. But looking back today, the concerted efforts of all those
practitioners indeed shook the earth. 2004-5-17
Posting date: 5/31/2004 |