Others Are Reunited with Their Families to Celebrate the New Year, But My Family Is Broken Up
(Clearwisdom.net) I am Zhang Jingyan, a practitioner from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang
Province. In observance of the New Year season, I wish village elders, fellow
countrymen and friends a happy New Year, and I wish you joy and good health! The
New Year holiday is a good time for the whole family to be together, but because
of the persecution, I am forced to live a homeless life even though I have a
home, just because I practice Falun Gong and follow "Truthfulness,
Compassion, Forbearance" in order to be a good person. Every holiday season
I miss my relatives, friends and fellow villagers even more. For the past five
years I have been illegally imprisoned and sentenced to jail, my family's
property was confiscated, and now I live the life of an itinerant. To put that
in perspective, this situation has lasted for nearly 2,000 days and nights, with
each day and night seeming to last an eternity for me and my family. It is
unbearable to recall the past! When I think of my frail old mother-in-law, my
lonely husband and our underage child longing for maternal love, when I think of
the physical and emotional suffering of my innocent family members and their
economic distress, it wounds my heart. I used to have a bad temper and placed a high priority on my own personal
gain. I have a large family. I often fought with my father-in-law, causing my
relatives and neighbors a lot of stress. Additionally, because I had lived a
hard life, since my youth I'd suffered from myocarditis, stomachache, pain in my
legs and back, and my hands and feet were cold all the time. I felt that life
was very bitter and I blamed others. Since 1996 when I started practicing Falun
Gong, my diseases were completely cured, and for the past 9 years I haven't
suffer any illnesses. Furthermore my outlook has changed, and I've come to
understand many truths concerning how a person should live; I have become
broad-minded and I exercise forbearance when I encounter conflicts. Since I
started practicing I haven't scolded or fought with anyone in our family and we
are extremely harmonious. On July 20, 1999 Jiang's regime unexpectedly started the brutal persecution
of Falun Gong. While watching the fabricated lies on television, I said to my
husband, "I will appeal for help according to the law. In the ancient times
there was a saying: If the son won't stand up when his kind father is slandered,
then people will call him unworthy. I have benefited a lot from Falun Dafa, I
must speak out for my Teacher and Falun Dafa." On July 24, 1999 I went to the Beijing to appeal for help, but I was sent
back under guard by the officials of Shuangcheng Town and imprisoned in the
Shuangcheng City Detention Center. I was illegally imprisoned for more than 20
days, and the police of Patrol Union forcefully ransacked my home. From then on
the town and village officials frequently harassed my family and me, and they
also tried to force my husband to write the Guarantee Statement. A
few days before October 1, 1999, Zhang Xiaoyan, Director of the Union of Village
Women, observed the reform-through-labor rule and forced me to do cleaning work,
similar to dealing with people in "the five black categories" in the
Cultural Revolution. On the eve of the lunar New Year in 2,000, I went again to Beijing to appeal
on behalf of Falun Gong, and I was again imprisoned in Shuangcheng City
Detention Center, this time for more than 50 days. I was stuffed in a small cell
with more than 30 other people, which was befouled with feces and urine. We were
fed two black steamed buns a day, and a little soup with dirt in it. Later I was
sent to the 2nd Harbin Detention Center, where I was imprisoned for
more than 40 days. There I was subjected to the "Sitting Board"
continuously from 6 am to 10 pm. Other people there were out of breath because
of it and we were all crowded together when we slept. After that I was sent to a
brainwashing class, where I suffered mental persecution. I resisted the
persecution with a hunger strike. All of this transpired during the New Year
holiday season, and when my elderly father-in-law heard about my situation, his
illness got worse rapidly and our relatives had to take care of him for more
than half a month. My kind husband was under so much pressure that he got a
little absent minded one day and fell, breaking a bone in his foot. Without
notifying me, they extorted 6,300 yuan from my family but still they
wouldn't release me. Only after I firmly resisted them with a hunger strike did
they release me. In July 2000, I again went to Beijing to appeal. The police on the train
required that each passenger curse Falun Gong. Because I refused to slander Dafa,
they forcefully detained me in the Shanhaiguan 2nd Criminal
Investigation Unit. There the police beat me ruthlessly and swore at me, and I
had a big lump on my head when they were done. Then I was sent by police
officers from the railway station and village officials to the Shuangcheng
Detention Center. In the Detention Center police slapped my face, force-fed me
concentrated salt water, and threatened to send me to a forced labor camp. After
being imprisoned for more than 80 days and having 2,800 yuan extorted from my
family, I was finally released. A few days before the Chinese New Year in 2001, the village officials sent
five Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to my home to take turns watching me.
Mr. Hu, a village official, said, "You're getting off easy. If this was the
Cultural Revolution, you would have been treated like someone from 'the five
black categories' by the militiaman." One day Mr. Hu ordered me to go to the village, but I refused. Zhu Wangfu,
Secretary of the village branch of the CCP, led four or five people from the
local police station and drove a car to my home to arrest me. I had to hide in
my relative's house. The third day they tracked me to my relative's home and
forcefully ransacked the greenhouse. Thus I was forced to leave home and go from
place to place, but that didn't stop them from coming to my home daily to
intimidate and harass my family. At that time my husband was working away from
home, and only my elderly mother-in-law and my youngest son were there. Still
they wouldn't give up and kept threatening my family members. Zhang Xiaoyan,
Director of the Women's Union, angrily rebuked my family members, and my son was
so frightened that he would run back home the moment he saw the police vehicle
and shout before entering the door, "Are they here to arrest my
mother?" My elderly mother-in-law was so worried and frightened that she
became ill and bedridden. In May 2001, police officers and village officials
returned to my home to arrest me while I was helping my father work the land. I
was forced to leave home and came back in June. In 2002, I had hoped to be reunited with my relatives for the New Year's
holiday, but on December 28 of the lunar calendar, Zhu Wangfu led four or five
police from the local police station and broke into my home at around 11 pm to
arrest me. They confiscated my family's newly bought VCD machine. The next day,
Zhang Guofu, the Director of the Police Department, led a group of police in
three vehicles to break into my home. They searched my house from top to bottom
and threw everything on the floor. Windows in one room were broken, the door
lock was pried open and things were tossed everywhere. They also kept my family
members under surveillance, following them everywhere they went, and extorted
1,400 yuan from them without giving them a receipt. When my relative asked for a
receipt, they threatened to start arresting people. On New Year's Eve around 9
pm and again early the next morning, the village official Mr. Zhang came to
arrest me. I was again forced to leave home. Other families were happily
reunited and celebrating the Chinese New Year, while I was forced to leave my
family and hide wherever I could. On April 19, 2002, several hundred riot police came to Harbin City,
Heilongjiang Province. The entire city was placed under martial law. I was taken
to the Police Department of Shuangcheng City. Three middle-aged police officers
gathered around and began to beat me. They lifted my chin and punched my throat;
they dragged me around by my hair, while at the same time another officer
brutally trampled on my feet and legs; they also handcuffed my hands and twisted
my hands ruthlessly. Another officer slapped me again and again. After they
finished beating me, they sent me to the 1st Criminal Investigation
Unit. When I arrived there I could see that the building was still brightly
illuminated and I could hear the sounds of people being beaten. They handcuffed
me to a radiator and beat my legs with a hard plastic tube until they were
covered with bruises. On April 21, 2002 I was illegally sent to the 2nd Harbin Detention
Center. I was subjected to brutal mental and physical torture. The police there
slapped my face, beat my back with a wooden board, shocked me with electric
batons, and hung me more than a meter from the ground with handcuffs. One of the
policemen told me, "Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin has ordered us to do
this to you, I don't like doing it, but if I show you kindness, who will take
care of my wife and child?" The prison cell measured about 20 square
meters, but it was stuffed with more than 40 people. Sanitary conditions were
extremely poor. I had scabies all over my body. During this period of time my
mother-in-law knew I had been caught, and she was ever restless and often looked
out the window murmuring my name. She fell and broke her wrist during this time. On October 30, 2002, I was returned under guard to Shuangcheng City and
illegally sentenced to ten years in prison. Even the police were surprised at
how harsh the sentence was. On July 12, 2003 and August 14, 2003 I decided to go on a hunger strike to
protest the sentence and illegal imprisonment. Doctor Dong Deguang from the 3rd
Clinic swore at me. They attempted to forcefully insert a feeding tube eight or
nine times without success. The tube was roughly the size of a finger. They
pushed more than a meter of tube into me and repeatedly pulled it back and
forth; my life was in danger at every turn. They forcefully opened my mouth and
pinched my nose to force-feed me. Director Zhu Xiaobo and Doctor Liu said,
"Two have already died from force-feeding. You're number three!" Zhu pried my mouth open with chopsticks and maliciously said, "If you
don't eat, we will force-feed you twice a day. I have plenty of time to play.
Hasn't Wang Wenrong given in now?" As a result of their barbaric
persecution, I convulsed and lost consciousness. The inmates in the same cell
wept at my plight. Director Liu Qingyu and instructor Xu Jize threatened, "You'll die for
nothing! Who can do anything to us?" Instructor Sun Shiyou clamored, "Force-feed her if she won't eat!
Force-feed her till she dies!" Police officer Huang Yanchung swore at me continuously. I once said to them,
"No matter how you treat me, I don't hate you and I won't complain. I
sincerely hope you recognize the truth and will stop being a scapegoat of
Jiang's regime. Do the right thing, and you will have a good future." Some
police officers sympathized with Falun Gong practitioners after learning the
truth. When I was persecuted to the brink of death, they sent me the first-aid
center. One day I walked out of the center with righteous thoughts, so the
police arrested my younger sister (who didn't practice Falun Gong), keeping her
as a hostage and illegally holding her for more than 10 hours. They went
methodically through my relatives' telephone numbers, calling each of them and
threatening them repeatedly, including those who lived far away. I was forced to
be homeless and deprived of my family. I had to go from place to place. From ancient times to this very day, good is rewarded with good and evil
eventually meets karmic retribution. Good will undoubtedly defeat evil. Please
distinguish clearly between right and wrong, good and evil, and make the right
choice for the sake of your own future.
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