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Shizishan Labor Camp for Drug Addicts in Hubei Province Stages TV Shows to Deceive the Public By a Dafa practitioner in China
June 12, 2004 (Clearwisdom.net) One afternoon in May of 2001, a show was staged by the second section (where
female Falun Gong practitioners were detained) of the Shizishan Labor Camp for
Drug Addicts in Hubei Province. In a scene in a bedroom, Liu Shengli (from Daye
City, Hubei Province), who had given up her belief in Dafa under duress, was
sitting on the edge of a bed, while a Dafa practitioner Deng Taoying (from
Puxing City, Hubei Province) was sitting on a small bench. Liu put on an act
talking with Deng Taoying as if she was concerned about her. Then the cameraman
came and recorded the scene. At the same time, in the telephone room, Yan Ting
(from Shandong Province, and a student at Erzhou University), who had also been
forced to give up her belief in Dafa, was sitting by a telephone, and pretending
to talk to her mother in Shandong Province. This scene was also videotaped by
the cameraman. After editing and dubbing, the videotapes were made into a
special TV news program to show how Shizishan Labor Camp "cares, educates,
helps and saves" Falun Gong practitioners. The trick successfully deceived
the unwary, including some family members of Falun Gong practitioners who
accepted the show as real. Before the show was staged, in order not to have people know about it, the
cadres drove all Dafa practitioners out of their bedrooms. In fact, all Dafa
practitioners knew very well that the show was staged, and the drug addicts in
the labor camp also said that such shows are very common in the labor camp.
Afterwards Yan Ting admitted that she hadn't talked to her mother at all. She
also said that she had been forced by cadres in the labor camp to do it and the
only purpose was to make a TV program. Before this event, the cadres in the
labor camp had forced Liu Shengli and Yan Ting to do the so called
"transformation" work. The two of them were uneasy, especially Yan
Ting who often complained grudgingly: "It is so annoying! They always want
us to do the "transformation" work, but we are not cut out for
that." At the time there were more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners being
held in the second section of the labor camp alone, all of whom were very firm
in their belief in Dafa. Only Liu Shengli and Yan Ting were
"transformed," and Yan Ting's transformation was not even genuine.
Regardless of the tactics used, the labor camp failed to shake practitioners'
faith in Dafa. In the end, on June 15 (the day of the Dragon Boat Festival), the
police had to send the 40 unwavering Dafa practitioners to the evil Shayang
Labor Camp, Hubei Province for further persecution. The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the Shizishan Labor Camp for
Drug Addicts was cruel and intense. Each Falun Gong practitioner was closely
supervised 24 hours a day by at least two personal cangues (1) chosen
from the drug addicts. All newly arrived Dafa practitioners would be stripped
naked upon their arrival by the drug addicts and body searched for Dafa
articles. The cadres instigated drug addicts to insult and cruelly beat Dafa
practitioners with promises of reductions to their sentences. One Dafa
practitioner, Guo Yanqiu from Xishui County, was cruelly beaten by the police
and the criminals simply because she refused to take drugs when she had a little
cough. One day, late at night, Guo Yanqiu was heard to let out a horrible shriek
as she was viciously beaten and her left eye was seriously injured. Next day,
her face was terribly swollen and deformed, and covered with bruises, and her
left eye almost closed. Despite this, she was still forced to do the military
drills. Another Dafa practitioner, Hu Jianzhen from Macheng City, was tortured
with forced feeding even when she was in critical conditions after she went on a
huger strike to protest the persecution. The labor camp police also forced Dafa
practitioners to do intensive slave labor. For quite a long period the Dafa
practitioners were forced to get up very early in the morning and stay up
laboring deep into the night. When their superiors came to inspect the labor
camp, they immediately suspended all the slave labor and even got rid of all
worktables. Once the superiors left, they resumed the slave labor. The Falun
Gong practitioners were forbidden to sleep, to speak to each other; otherwise
they would be punished with prolonged standing against the wall or even cruel
beatings. All the clothing and food that the family members of Dafa
practitioners sent them were taken away by the criminal drug addicts. Those of you who are still unclear about the reality of the persecution of
Falun Gong practitioners, please open your eyes and not be deceived by the lies
and propaganda on China's TV. (1) "Personal cangues" (There were "open cangues" and
"secret cangues") [Note: cangue, the name of an instrument of torture,
is now used to indicate the person who is designated to supervise the behavior
of practitioners.] Posting date: 6/26/2004 |