Brutal Persecution Suffered by Female Falun Gong Practitioners Inside the Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp in Zizhong, Sichuan Province
(Clearwisdom.net)
I am a female Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province. In 2000, I wrote a
letter to the government emphasizing that Falun Dafa is good, as well as the
facts of the persecution faced by Dafa practitioners as a result of Jiang's
campaign to eradicate Falun Dafa. As a result, my name was put on a blacklist
that was known to every level of government officials. As a result of that, I
have been targeted for persecution from that day on, for writing some supportive
words for Falun Dafa. Under direct government pressure, the boss of my working
unit laid me off.
In 2001, local "610 Office" personnel [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] and police from the
local police station tried to force me into a brainwashing program. I had to
leave home to avoid the constant harassment and threat of arrest. The local
public security authorities and police extorted tens of thousands of Yuan from
my work unit and family by claiming the funds were to pay for them to search for
me. However, in reality they openly stated, "What we want is to make her family
penniless" which was in accordance with Jiang's persecution policy against Falun
Gong practitioners to, "Ruin their reputation, bankrupt them financially,
destroy them physically." Meanwhile, the authorities began harassing family
members and friends who knew me by coming to their homes in the middle of the
night. In May of 2002, when I was clarifying the truth about Dafa to some people
outside of my hometown, someone reported me to the police in order to get a
reward, and policemen came and arrested me. Later, I was illegally sentenced to
two years of forced labor education and sent to the Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp
in Zizhong, Sichuan Province.
Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp is a brutal environment and those incarcerated
there consider it to be hell on earth. The 7th squadron and 8th
squadron are the squadrons that were organized specifically to persecute Falun
Gong practitioners. Around 150 Falun Gong practitioners, on average aged over
50, were detained in these two squadrons. These squadrons also had a number of
prisoners who were not Falun Gong practitioners, but who had committed different
kinds of felonies. The labor camp guards selected them from other squadrons and
asked them to watch Falun Gong practitioners closely in return for benefits and
sentence reductions. These criminals were tools that were used as the police
officials' eyes and ears, as well as sticks to beat Dafa practitioners. Usually,
two felons watched one Falun Gong practitioner closely 24 hours a day in shifts.
They were directed to force Falun Gong practitioners to sit or stand in military
postures in front of a wall for 18 hours a day, go to sleep at 12 a.m. and get
up at 6 a.m. If any of the felons treated Falun Gong practitioners a little bit
better, they were either reprimanded, given corporal punishment, had their
sentences extended, or sent back to their original squadron by the police
officers. Since their original squadron's production duties were extremely heavy
and often required overtime work, they watched Falun Gong practitioners ever
more closely, particularly when they faced the prospect of being released
earlier.
At the end of November 2002, the police officers directed some collaborators
[former practitioners who had given up their belief in Dafa under pressure
and now are used to help persecute their fellow practitioners) to
cooperate with them and felons to start another wave of persecution against
Falun Gong practitioners by using exceptionally brutal means. Falun Gong
practitioners were forced to stand in military postures, and not allowed to sit
down even when having a meal. They were only allowed to sleep from 3 a.m. to 6
a.m., and were allowed to use the restroom only twice a day at specified times,
only after reporting to the prison officials. Additionally, practitioners were
forced-fed water so as to make them have to urinate more frequently and lose
control of their bladder from the reduced toilet privileges. Whenever this
happened, prison guards would cruelly force practitioners to soak up the urine
from the floor with toilet paper, squeeze it into a bowl and then drink it down.
This type of persecution continued until the end of 2002.
After that, the persecution intensified even more. We were not allowed to
sleep at all and had to stand 24 hours a day in military postures. About 10 days
later, we were allowed to sit in front of a wall, but sleep was still not
allowed. This continued until the end of February 2003, when Falun Gong
practitioners were finally allowed to sleep at 12 a.m. During that period, the
felons frequently verbally abused and beat Falun Gong practitioners. They even
stripped off some practitioners' clothes, beating and forced cold water into
their vaginas. When one female practitioner was forced to stand facing a wall
without any clothes on, a patrolling prison official came and jeered at her:
"don't you look pretty standing this way?" Some vicious male guards stripped the
clothes from several female practitioners, forced one down to the ground, and
then forced another female practitioner on the top of her in order to humiliate
and degrade them.
During this period, two foreign reporters came to Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp
in Zizhong to investigate whether the reports that they had a water dungeon
which they used for torture were true. They arrived at the 8th
squadron and asked one practitioner who would not renounce her belief in Falun
Gong. The practitioner only replied, "I won't say anything." After that, the
guards hung her by her hands from the window frames for four days and four
nights.
The question remains, does Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp have any water
dungeons? One practitioner told me that she was once locked in a water dungeon.
It is located behind the building of the 4th squadron.
Prior to the Chinese New Year of 2004, the labor camp started another round
of brainwashing and torture, attempting to force practitioners to renounce their
belief in Dafa. Because of overseas Dafa practitioners' gave support in exposing
the persecution inside the labor camp to the world, the brutal "transformation"
period ended as soon as it started.
At present, the prison guards in Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp are forcing
detained female Falun Gong practitioners to work almost non-stop. Everyone has
to crochet flowers using over three pounds of cotton thread each month.
Practitioners can only sleep from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. each night and sometimes they
have to work up to two to three consecutive nights without any sleep so as to
finish the production quota for the month. If they cannot finish the production
quota, their sentence in the forced labor camp will be extended.
Contact information of Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp in Zizhong is enclosed
below:
Director of Education Division at Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp: Li Ziqiang.
Police Officers of the 8th Squadron at Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp:
Li Qi, Yang Zhengrong, Liao.
The phone numbers of the 8th Squadron, Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp:
86-832-5212613; 86-832-5212174.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/5/9/74208.html
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