Father of Yao Yaoyuan: Losing My Son in My Old Age Has Made Me Grieve Terribly
By Yao Zhenyu
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 4, 2003, my son Yao Yaoyuan sadly left this
world. I felt great sorrow upon his death. Only because of his saying one
sentence, "I want to go out to find a job," he suffered brainwashing
for 10 months, was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp and was finally
persecuted to death. In July 1989, my son entered the University of National Defense Science and
Technology with high honors. He thus joined the army. He was assigned to study
in the Department of System Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He graduated in
July 1993 with a B.S degree. He was assigned to teach in the military academy of
Wuhan. He won first place in the teaching contest. He published eight papers in
the military forces publications. He took up the task of a research project,
"The bank of the simulation mathematics questions." My son completed
the assignment successfully and received the third class awards. His military
rank was Captain. Yao Yaoyuan was a talented person with a very bright future
ahead of him. In 1998, Yaoyuan started practicing Falun Gong because of his poor health.
After the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, he was on his way to
Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. However, he was intercepted and
put in a forced brainwashing facility for more than two months. His work unit
terminated his party membership, dismissed him from the military roll, and
dismissed him from his job. They sent him back to his hometown, but nobody in
our family got any processing documents. After he came back home on September 25, 2000, Yaoyuan stayed at home all the
time, never leaving the gate of Huxing Village. The officers from the Niumasi
Government and the local police station visited my home several times. He was
always at home. On February 21, 2001, the police officers asked him on purpose,
"What is your plan for the future?" He said, "I want to go out to
find a job." Because of these words, the leaders of the town and the police
officers from the local station thought he would leave to go appeal in Beijing
again. The next day, about 5 or 6 people came to our house. They forced Yaoyuan
to go with them. I argued with them. I asked, "He was dismissed and sent
back to his hometown three times. Wasn't that punishment enough? Because he is a
Falun Gong practitioner, you insist on putting him in jail? One of the policemen, in his 50's or 60's, shouted loudly, "He is a
Falun Gong practitioner, so the government wants to arrest him and punish
him!" Another policeman said, "Whoever practices Falun Gong needs to
'study.'" Yao Yaoyuan was sent to the forced brainwashing facility in Shaoyang City
that very day. First he was in the Party School with another thirteen or
fourteen practitioners. Then he was transferred to the Shaoyang City Forced
Labor Camp. After two or three months, my son started coughing continuously, had a lot of
phlegm, and lost a lot of weight. We asked the authorities to check his health,
but they refused. I thought of paying money to get Yao Yaoyuan released on bail for medical
treatment. I first talked to Ye Xiangming, the head of the local police station.
I asked him to agree to sign the release for medical treatment. He said, "I
am only in charge of making an arrest. I will not sign this agreement." After that, I applied to the town government. Zhou Ping, the Party committee
secretary of the town at that time, did not agree to sign either. I tried many
avenues, but I got nowhere. After 5 or 6 months, except for one or two practitioners who were released
because they were "transformed", the other practitioners in Shaoyang
City were returned by their work units. There were only four practitioners from
Shaodong and one from Xinshao left in the labor camp. On November 13, 2001, officials from the town asked me to bring 20,000 yuan
as a deposit to get my son back. I immediately went to the Shaoyang City Forced
Labor Camp. The practitioners had all undergone a hunger strike for six
consecutive days to protest the persecution. They had all become very skinny and
were coughing continuously. They were short of breath and on the verge of death. On the second day, I put the money together and went to the town government.
They said that Xiao, Director of Shuangqing District Police Department in
Shaoyang City, would not agree to release my son. When I arrived at the City
Forced Labor Camp, my son had already been sent to the detention center. They
said he was detained because of practicing Falun Gong in public and
"disturbing the social order." I handed a written request to the
Shuangqing District Police Department asking for his release on bail for medical
treatment. But I did not get any response. I spent 50 yuan to visit Yaoyuan once. After 15 days, I got a phone call from
Zhu Xueming the director of the 610 Office in Shaodong County,
asking me to bring 325 yuan for my son's living expenses in jail. I saw that Yaoyuan's health was getting worse and worse, and he was coughing
and spitting continuously. I sent another request to ask for his release on bail
for medical treatment. At that time, Li Qiling, the officer of the 610 Office
said, "Even with your town and the county's agreement, we will release
him." After the governor of the town received my request, he said he would contact
the 610 Office. I went directly to Zhu Xueming at the 610 Office in Shaodong County. He said,
"Your son is too stubborn. We arranged for him to be released last." After that, Mr. Wang, the Mayor of the town, and Shen Desheng talked to Zhu
Xueming. From their meeting, I learned that, "Comrade Zhu did not have any
opinion against it. Only Liu Sheqing, the Secretary of the County Discipline
Inspection Commission did not agree." I therefore intended to talk to Liu
Sheqing, but I heard that Shen Xiongwei, the deputy secretary of the County
Discipline Inspection Commission, was the one in charge of the 610 Office in the
county. After several tries, I found him. I sent him an application for my son's
release on medical bail and he looked at it. He felt sympathy and told me that
he would give me an answer in a week. After a week, he gave me his answer
saying, "There is a disagreement from the upper level." I said,
"There doesn't have to be any disagreement from the upper level. The 610
Office in Shaoyang City should release my son with the agreement of the county
and the town." Later, I found out it was Wang Ruobo, the Party Secretary of the county, who
did not agree to my son's release. There was no way to get my son released on
bail for medical treatment. Because of this, again and again my son lost
precious time that he needed for treatment. What was heartbreaking was the fact that without any trial, without giving
his family any written judgment, while he was seriously ill, my son was
wrongfully charged with "disturbing the social order," and was
sentenced to one year of forced labor. At the beginning of February 2002, Yaoyuan was transferred to the Xinkaipu
Forced Labor Camp in Changsha City, Hunan Province. With such a sick and
disabled body, I did not know how he managed to live through a whole year of
prison life. In June, my entire family went to the labor camp to visit Yaoyuan. His
complexion was as yellow as wax and he was skinny like a piece of firewood. His
white clothes had turned yellow. He was weary from illness. We could only cry
with dry eyes. Later, we heard that in October he began coughing up blood in his
prison cell, but he was not given any medical treatment. They just let him be
sick. After enduring a year of labor camp with great difficulty, Yao Yaoyuan was
released on January 30, 2003 when his term finally ended. He coughed and spat in
the car several times and it was clear that his health was in very poor
condition. On the eighth day back home, Yaoyuan coughed up a large amount of
blood. We hurriedly sent him to the People's Hospital in Shaodong County for
emergency rescue with infusions and oxygen therapy. The CT scan and X-rays
showed that his lung had several big holes in it and he had an infection in his
trachea. The doctor's diagnosis was Secondary Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Six days
later, he coughed out a huge amount of blood again. That left his body severely
lacking blood. He was given a transfusion of 400 cc of blood immediately. He was
also injected with several bottles of protein. Yaoyuan was hospitalized for a
month, which cost 10,000 yuan. When his condition was getting slightly better,
with the permission of the doctor, he went home and took the medicine we bought
for treatment. During the time he was treated at home, a person was sent from the town to
monitor him [to make sure he did not practice Falun Gong]. They paid Muo
Zhihua from our village 100 yuan per month and asked her to come to my home once
every three days. On the night of May 20, 2003, Yaoyuan spit up a huge amount of blood again.
The blood was all over the quilt, pillow, blanket and the mosquito net. He lost
consciousness. He was sent to the Central Hospital of Shaoyang City for
emergency rescue. The medical expense was 500 yuan each day, but his condition
did not get any better. He spit up a lot of blood again at 9 o'clock on June 4,
2003. Although he was helped immediately, Yaoyuan passed away because he had
lost too much blood. This time the medical expense was over 5,000 yuan. Who on earth has given me such a big tribulation? My family has been torn to
pieces. My family is broken and my son is dead. The happy life I dreamed of
having in my old age has been destroyed. I thought, "If the officers from the local police station and the town
government had not so foolishly assumed, based on their mere guesses, that
"going out to find a job" was "appealing" and
"establishing contacts," then the result would not have been that my
son was subjected to brainwashing for 10 months and sentenced to one year in a
forced labor camp. Then his illness would not have led to his death. If it were not for Wang Ruobo, the Party Secretary of Shaodong County,
depriving my son of his right to be released on medical bail, then the precious
time he needed for treatment would not have been delayed and it would not have
caused this unrecoverable tragedy. My wife and I are nearing our seventies. I have a serious coronary disease.
Losing my son in my old age leaves me in deep sorrow. How can we suffer this in
our old age!
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