Baoding City is Shrouded in Dark Clouds
Report by Minghui reporter Gu Anru
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 27, Minghui Net reported that Zhuo Guibin, a
Falun Dafa practitioner from Hebei Province was abducted on June 18, 2004. He is
currently being detained in Baoding Forced Labor Camp and is on a hunger strike
in protest. The news also reported that two dozen other practitioners are
illegally detained in Baoding City. This information revealed that there is
still brutal persecution of practitioners going on in this area. This has
attracted the attention of practitioners outside China and good people
everywhere. 1. 23 Dafa practitioners have died from torture in Baoding City Over the past five years, Baoding has always been the place in Hebei Province
where Falun Gong practitioners have suffered most severe persecution. The
notorious Baoding Forced Labor Camp and Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp are two
concentration-like camps in Baoding that persecute practitioners. Many cases of
deaths as a result of torture, verified through non-governmental channels, were
reported from Baoding City. According to Minghui, from July 20, 1999 to the end of June 2004, at least
997 Dafa practitioners were tortured to death, verified through non-governmental
channels. As many as 103 of those deaths were from Hebei Province. Hebei
Province ranks No.5 in deaths of Dafa practitioners in China. Of the deaths in
Hebei Province, 23 happened in Baoding, 1/5 of the deaths that have occurred in
Hebei Province. Practitioners tortured to death include local Baoding City practitioners and
those from other areas in Hebei Province. Their names are: Ms. Jiao Fenglan (Laishuixian County, Baoding), Ms. Rong Fengxian (Jinzhuang
Township, Baoding), Feng Guoguang (Xiling Town, Yi County, Baoding), Ms. Tai
Yurong (Wangdu County, Baoding), Ms. Liu Dongxue (Mancheng County, Baoding),
Ms. Zhan Jinyan (Jiangcheng Township, Baoding), Ms. Xiong Fengxia (Dingxing
County, Baoding), Di Wanqing (Li County), Ms. Zhang Yiqin (Laiyuan County),
Ms. Ma Zhanmei (Laiyuan County), Liu Baoyuan (Dingxing County, Baoding), Wu
Yanshui (Laishui County, Baoding), Ms. Wang Jinling (Mancheng County, Baoding),
Ms. Gao Shiping (Qiaoxi District, Zhangjiakou City), Chen Hongping (Huailai
County, Zhangjiakou City), Lu Zhaofeng (Niantou Township, Daming County), Ms.
Chen Yanying (Ningjin County), Ms. Sun Shouqi (Dingzhou City), Ms. Wang Juan (Dingzhou
City), Ms. Chen Xiaoqin (Anguo County, Baoding), Ms. Wang Yaping (Shuangqiao
District, Chengde City), Cheng Zongzhan (Baoding City), and one female Dafa
practitioner with unknown name. All 23 Dafa practitioners benefited from Dafa cultivation, both mentally and
physically, and every one of them had many moving experiences. Wang Yaping once
had bone cancer and liver cancer. Either cancer could have claimed her life. She
started to practice Falun Dafa in 1995 and the cancers were healed. Chen Xiaoqin
once had terminal cancer. There was no cure for her illness. The hospitals said
she had very little time to live. After she started to practice Falun Gong, the
illness disappeared. Lu Zhaofeng strictly followed the principles of
Truthfulness¨CBenevolence¨CTolerance to cultivate his mind and actions and
benefited a lot. He felt that Dafa should be introduced to more people. Even
though his family was in strained financial circumstances, he still offered his
limited amount of money to buy Dafa books and to copy truth-clarifying
materials. Zhang Yiqin never went to school and she even could not read her
name. Within several years after she started to cultivate Dafa, she could read
every word in Zhuan Falun and could write simple letters to her family. Of these 23 Dafa practitioners who died as a result of torture, five of them
died in 2004 Of the Dafa practitioners who died as a result of torture, each one of them
suffered extreme torment and unimaginable pain. Some of them died of serious
physical injuries or suffocation from the torturous force-feeding; some died
from physical exhaustion from the savage beatings and other physical punishment;
some died from the effects of prolonged and excessive forced labor; others died
from various other physical and mental torments in brainwashing centers.... All this demonstrates that during Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong, Hebei
Province and Baoding City have acted as loyal hatchet men, applying Jiang's
policy of extinction, "Ruin their reputation, exhaust their financial
resources and destroy them physically." 2. The torture methods are savage, vicious and terrifying The evildoing forces in Hebei Province sent the steadfast female Dafa
practitioners who were illegally detained in different labor camps to Gaoyang
Forced Labor Camp, and sent all the male Dafa practitioners to Baoding Forced
Labor Camp, for centralized abuse, mistreatment and savagery under the
persecution. Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp has a reputation as "Masanjia in
Hebei Province" and Baoding Forced Labor Camp was "crowned" as
"one of the top civilized labor camps in China." These two labor camps
are the most vicious, abusive persecution locations in Hebei Province. The camp
police use all kinds of cruel methods to torture Dafa practitioners, trying to
"reform" them. There is no guarantee for the safety of these Dafa
practitioners' lives. The following lists several of their many fiendish and
viciously cruel torturing methods. Torturous Force-feeding harms bodies and takes lives Clearwisdom.net has published (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/7/25/38510.html)
the following about Baoding Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province: each Falun Dafa
practitioner who went on a hunger strike was handcuffed to a chair. His head was
then forcibly pulled back, stretching his neck over the top of the back of the
chair. At the same time, the police forcibly pushed his head back and down as
far as possible. The practitioner's neck was held immobile against the top of
the chair, and his head was pushed down to the limit, virtually flattening and
closing the esophagus, cutting off all airflow. Then the police would hold the
practitioners' nostrils shut with their fingers and use a large knife to wedge
open his mouth, causing his mouth to bleed. Finally, they forced food down his
mouth. This torturous method of force-feeding can easily result in death by
suffocation, because the nasal passages are blocked and the mouth is stuffed
with food, unable to enter the blocked esophagus. Falun Dafa practitioners who
have survived this kind of torture have later said that it was extremely painful
and one would rather die than continue to suffer such torture. Four Dafa practitioners in the Baoding Forced Labor Camp, including Feng
Guoguang, Ma Zhanmei and Zhang Yiqin, died from this type of forced-feeding.
Many other Dafa practitioners lost parts of their lungs from the forced-feeding;
they coughed severely and spit mucus; the pain is difficult to describe in
words. Death Bed: Excruciating Pain Baoding Forced Labor Camp launched a new round of persecution of Falun Dafa
practitioners, forcing every Dafa practitioner to go through a torture dubbed
the "death bed." The torture is as follows: The victim is placed on a
bed face up, with his or her four limbs shackled to the four corners of the bed.
Two to five bricks are placed under the victim's back to increase the pain. The
police then tightly tie the victim's four limbs, chest, and shoulder to the bed.
They elevate the foot end of the bed with objects in such a way that the
victim's feet are in a higher position than his or her head, so the victim is
suspended upside down. They order the victim to say, "I will no longer
practice." If the victim refuses to say this, they either tighten the rope
or add more bricks under the victim's back to make the victim suffer
excruciating pain. This torture could last from 4-5 hours to several days. The
torture will not stop unless the victim said that he or she gives up practicing
Falun Gong. At the same time, the police also shock the victim with electric
batons. This torture could cause the practitioner's whole body to become black
and blue and fester. After Falun Gong practitioner Li Jianguo was deprived of
sleep for thirteen days, he was tied to the "death bed" for as long as
one and a half months. Sleep Deprivation, Electro-Shock Torture, Inhuman Bondage, Torture to the
Point of Disability The police in Baoding Forced Labor Camp did not allow practitioner to sleep.
They even used small wooden sticks to keep their eyes open. The practitioners
were tortured this way for ten to fifteen days. The police even clamored,
"Why not use tanks to crush you as in the June 4 Incident!" [On
June 4, 1989, many Chinese students during the student movement were crushed to
death by the Chinese military tanks in Tiananmen Square] In the women's
group, the longest time that a practitioner went without being allowed to close
her eyes was 16 days. Practitioners are also subjected to other tortures, such
as cuffing the practitioner's four limbs spread-eagled to a bed; shocking with
electric batons (dark purple burn scars were often seen on practitioners' necks
and faces as a result of this torture); tying practitioners up (tying
practitioners up for a long time would cause lack of circulation and some
practitioners became disabled as a result. Amongst people going to work, some
are often seen walking with a limp). Dafa practitioner Ma Yulin was tortured
this way many times. Additional means of torturing include forcing practitioners
to stand facing a wall for long periods of time and forcing the practitioners to
hold their heads with their hands and remain in a squatting position for long
periods of time. Because of this long-term squatting, some practitioners became
paralyzed and lost feeling in their four limbs. Sitting in a Squatting Position, Stuffing Nostrils and Mouth with Hot Chili
Peppers; Burning the Soles of the Feet; Force-Feeding with Feces The brutal tortures used in Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp include "sitting
squat," stuffing hot chili peppers into nostrils and mouth, burning the
soles of the feet with a firecracker fuse and force-feeding with feces. The
"Sitting Squat" is an extremely cruel torture. Police would handcuff a
practitioner's hands onto something high, and then force the practitioner to
assume the squatting position. Being tortured this way for a long period of time
will make the handcuffs cut into the flesh on the wrists and make the legs and
feet swollen. The person will have difficulty standing and his or her back will
experience intense pain. On April 8, 2001, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Haiqin, deputy head of
Handan City's Bureau of Finance in Hebei Province, was subjected to this
torture. At the same time, more than 20 police officers attacked her like wild
animals. Some used electric batons to shock her, causing huge blisters around
Liu's mouth, which police broke open as they beat her. The police continued to
torture Liu for 72 hours. Cui Xiuzhen, female, is 61 years old and a resident of
Shenze County, Hebei Province. She was barbarically tortured every night for one
month. The police used two electric batons at the same time to shock her ears,
mouth, nose, hands, feet, neck, and the insides of her legs. They put nails
between her toes and then used an electric baton to electrically shock her.
Police also took burning hot chili peppers and stuffed them into her nose and
mouth. After the torture, bloody clumps would come out of her nose and mouth.
Police used very thick willow sticks to whip her feet, and they used pliers to
twist her toes and scratched her soles with two-inch-long nails. They also used
firecracker fuses to burn her feet. Furthermore, the police ordered inmates to
twist her nipples, breasts, and private parts. She was dragged across the
snow-covered ground and made to lie or sit on top of ice and snow. She suffered
such intense brutal tortures 10 times in one month, during which time she lost
so much weight that she weighed only 40 kg (about 88 lbs). While she was on a
hunger strike with four other practitioners, police force-fed them feces. As a
result, all five of them developed stomach infections and their blood pressure
dropped to only 50. In Baoding Prefecture, all kinds of cruel tortures are widely used. All these
fiendish tortures are invented and permitted to be used during Jiang's genocidal
persecution of Falun Gong. Using these tortures is strictly against the Chinese
Constitution, against Chinese laws and international agreements and treaties. 3. Jiang's Accomplices Being Held Responsible for Their Crimes; A Lawsuit Was
Filed in Chicago Against Wang Xudong, the Former Party Secretary for Hebei
Province Wang Xudong is the former Communist Party Secretary for Hebei Province and is
responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong in Hebei Province. He is now
Minister of China's Information Ministry. Falun Gong practitioners charged him
with torture and severe violation of human rights during the time when he was
attending the "Third Sino-U.S. Telecommunication Trade Summit" in
Chicago recently, and he received a court subpoena in Chicago. The subpoena
ordered Wang to respond in twenty days; otherwise, Wang would be tried in
absentia. According to the complaint, while Mr. Wang served as Communist Party
Secretary for Hebei Province from June of 2000 through to November of 2002, he
"did not follow international laws and Chinese laws to take action to stop
the human rights abuses of Falun Gong practitioners by Chinese Communist
officials and people from the '610 Office.' Instead, he authorized and
supported a harsh persecution of Falun Gong." There are five Chinese provinces, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong,
and Hebei, in which Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted most
aggressively. These five have accounted for over half of the deaths of
practitioners from abuse while in custody. The death toll in each of the five
provinces is over 100. On March 28, 2001, the People's Liberation Army Daily
carried a special article, commending Wang for his direct involvement in
"reforming" (i.e., brainwashing) Falun Gong practitioners. According to information on Minghui, Wang Xudong became the fourth Chinese
high-ranking official whom Falun Gong practitioners presented with lawsuits when
these officials visited overseas this year. Prior to the lawsuit against Wang,
Chinese former Minster of Culture Sun Jiazheng, Chinese Minster of Commerce
(former governor of Liaoning Province) Bo Xilai, Anhui Province Communist Party
Secretary Wang Taihua had all received court subpoenas for their involvement in
persecuting Falun Gong while they were visiting overseas. Other high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials who had received court
subpoenas earlier included Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Li Lanqing, Zhou Yongkang
(Minster of Public Security), Wu Guanzheng (former Shandong Province Communist
Party Secretary), Zhao Zhifei (head of Hubei Province's Public Security
Department), Liu Qi (Beijing Communist Party Secretary), Xia Deren (Deputy
Governor of Liaoning Province), and others. From those sued, Zhao Zhifei, Li Qi,
and Xia Deren have already been found guilty in court. June 26, 2004
Chinese version available at
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