(Clearwisdom.net) On June 24, the first ever Global Compact Leaders
Summit was held at UN headquarters in New York. The summit recommended Global
business leaders to change their corporate policies to acknowledge and support
human rights, labor and environmental principles such as:
Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of
internationally acknowledged human rights;
Principle 2: Make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Principle 3: The elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labor.
On June 23 and 24, Falun Gong practitioners held an anti-torture exhibition
at the plaza facing UN headquarters to help people visualize the torture methods
used in China to persecute practitioners. The scene was very shocking and
moving.
The plaza is located at a busy intersection with a continuous flow of
vehicles and pedestrians. A lot of UN staff, VIPs who came to the summit, and
media pass by the plaza to get into the UN headquarters. Practitioners displayed
"Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice," "Stop the Persecution of Falun
Gong" banners and all kinds of anti-torture posters to tell passersby about
the evil persecution happening in China and to call on all kind-hearted people
to stand up against this persecution. Next to the anti-torture display, a large
group of practitioners demonstrated the peaceful Falun Gong exercises, which
formed a sharp contrast with the bloody torture and persecution.
Slave Labor Exhibition
Near end of the plaza and the intersection, practitioners put a 20' by 12'
steel cage in which many slave-labor products, such as toys and artificial
flowers produced by Chinese labor camps and prisons were displayed. Behind the
cage, a 20' long banner read "15 hours a day, 7 days a week, 100,000 slaves
(Falun Gong practitioners) detained in 180 Chinese labor camps are persecuted
for their beliefs in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."
Several practitioners sitting inside the cage acted as practitioners being
forced to work as slaves in labor camps to make various products. One of them
was, in real life, actually beaten to the point of unconsciousness for refusing
to work as a slave in a Chinese labor camp.
Falun Gong practitioner Granny Chen said that she was illegally detained in
the Beijing Women's Labor Camp and was forced to make products such as
chopsticks.
Torture Exhibition with Real-life Models
During this exhibition, using real-life models, practitioners demonstrated
some of the torture methods employed at Chinese labor camps and prisons to
persecute Falun Gong practitioners such as the Tiger Bench, burning the flesh,
hanging people up and beating them, and force-feeding with the intent, not to
nourish, but to cause pain and suffering.
Tiger Bench: During this torture, police tie the victim's legs tightly to the
tiger bench using belts. They then put bricks or some other hard objects under
the victim's feet. They keep adding layers of bricks until the belts break.
Victims endure unbearable pain and often pass out during these torture sessions.
Many mainland Falun Gong practitioners have been subjected to this torture
method. For example, Liu Chengjun was forced to sit on one "tiger
bench" for 52 days. He was also handcuffed to a "Dead person's
bed" (People who were tied to the "Dead person's bed" and exposed
to others not only experienced the extreme pain as if they were split apart, but
they also had to relieve themselves on the bed. They suffer mental insults and
physical tortures every moment.). Because of the brutal torture, he couldn't
walk normally and was often dragged by guards inn order to move forward.
Mr. Liu Chengjun was arrested on March 5, 2002. He was severely tortured in
prison and died at 4:30 in the morning on December 26, 2003. In order to cover
up their crime, the criminals responsible for his death cremated his body at
10:40 a.m. the same morning, against his family's will.
"Hanging up and Beating": During this torture, practitioners would
be hung up for a long time and beaten severely. Many practitioners have been
beaten to death in this way. Ms. Zhao Xiaoping, 62, was a resident in Urumqi
City and a retired teacher from a Ceramics Factory. She went to Beijing on
December 28, 2000 to appeal against the persecution of Falun Dafa, and was
detained in the Yanqing Detention Center. On January 4, 2001 Ms. Zhao was
barbarically force-fed, interrogated by the authorities, and brutally tortured.
Her face was disfigured with 3 big bumps on her head. Her body was covered with
dirt, she could not speak, and her lips were tightly shut. She was sent to the
hospital for emergency treatment on January 5, 2001. The doctors found that she
was suffering from internal injuries that consisted of bleeding in her liver,
spleen, and stomach. She was also diagnosed as having a swollen heart from the
trauma she received, and kidney failure. As a result of these massive injuries,
Ms. Zhao passed away on January 7, 2001.
Punitive force-feeding is not the same as the normal medical feeding
procedure that is used to save lives. The persecutors in China use it as a cruel
torture method to force practitioners to give up their belief. Hence, this
force-feeding is very brutal. According to reports, up to 100 practitioners have
died as a result of brutal force-feedings administered by non-professional
persons (including prisoners), and a large number of practitioners have
experienced serious side effects from these force-feedings.
Some practitioners are force-fed highly-concentrated salt solutions, chili
soup, high-proof liquor, detergent, and even urine and feces. Some police
instruct prisoners to torture practitioners who are being force-fed, such as
forcing air into the tube, then stepping on the practitioner's stomach, which
results in highly-concentrated salt solution spraying up from the stomach and
burning the practitioner's eyes and nose. Some persecutors do not allow the
practitioner to use the toilet, but instead hang the practitioner upside down,
forcing them to urinate and defecate on themselves.
The People's Reactions
The passersby were shocked by the brutality shown by the exhibition. Many
stopped to view the exhibition and posters and to talk with practitioners. A lot
of kindhearted people expressed their sympathy asking, "What can I
do?" and signed their names on a petition to call for an end of the
persecution.
A young man said: "Physically seeing the torture is much different from
reading news. The exhibition is very effective."
A professor who was on his way to a meeting at the UN told practitioners
"You have done a good job."
A contributor to Human Rights Edition online of the Wall Street Journal
viewed the exhibition for a while. She then called radio stations and requested
that they come to interview practitioners. She said, "I know everything
about the persecution happening in China. You have done a good job."
A Jewish gentleman viewed the torture exhibition and slave labor exhibition
for a long time, and he told practitioners that he had signed a petition in
support of practitioners.
Falun Gong practitioners will continue their anti-torture exhibition on June
25 and 26.
