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Labor Camp Inmate Repents for Persecuting Falun Dafa Practitioners
(Clearwisdom.net) I was sent to the Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp
because I committed a scam. In recent years, this labor camp has become
notorious for persecuting Dafa practitioners. What I want to say today is not about the "drug scandal," involving
collusion between the police and criminals that occurred in early 2003, or about
where the chopsticks used in ordinary restaurants come from. What I want to
discuss are the many Falun Dafa practitioners who are threatened by violence and
persecuted badly, yet still persist in their wonderful belief in
"Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." The reason that we were sent to the Falun Gong unit in the middle of our term
was because the police wanted us to closely monitor the Falun Gong practitioners
whom they regarded as uncooperative. It was said that they learned this tactic
from the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp. Depending on the situation, the police put either one or two criminals into
each Falun Gong sub-unit. Almost every night, we reported information from our
sub-unit to the guards. We worked diligently in order to have our terms
shortened. Influenced by the media's vicious propaganda against Falun Gong, I initially
regarded Falun Gong practitioners as dangerous people who went insane because of
practicing qigong, and had a lot of antipathy toward them. Instigated by the
guards, I often swore at and beat practitioners. As I stayed with them longer, I
realized that they were not dangerous people like the government said. They got
along well with each other. The younger practitioners took care of the older
ones (the oldest was 69 years old). We all slept on either lower or upper bunks,
and they let the seniors or disabled sleep on their lower bunks. When having a
meal, they took out the food that their families brought them and invited others
to share. We never saw this phenomenon in our ordinary division at all. Although privately we no longer agreed with the persecution of Falun Gong,
and treated Falun Gong practitioners better, being tempted by profits and
threatened by guards, we still tortured those poor people without conscience in
order to win the guards' favor and the rewards of shortened terms. Two of my close friends and I, together continually took care of the older
man, Qian Shiguang from Gansu. According to police, Qian Shiguang was put in a
forced labor camp once in Gansu. This was the second time that he was put into a
labor camp. He was a headache for the guards because he refused to renounce
Falun Gong. Their treatment of Qian Shiguang included depriving him of sleep,
not allowing him to use the toilet, reduced food portions, and physical
punishment with beatings and swearing. But Qian never gave in. Instead, he told
them things about Falun Gong, and cautioned them not to help a tyrant do evil,
lest they get retribution in the end. When talking about these things, sometimes
we also thought that what he said had some rationality. Sometimes our bodies
felt uncomfortable for no apparent reason. Could this be the punishment from
God? But as soon as we thought of having our terms shortened, we would again
continue our old ways. One night, when it was snowing heavily, guard Yin Hongsong ordered two people
to drag Qian Shiguang outside. They stripped off all his clothes except his
underwear, tied him to a big tree, and let him freeze for almost two hours.
Later, those two people bragged about it to me and I felt very sad. These kinds of things happened often. For instance, some of us shoved a Falun
Gong practitioner, whose family name was Liu, into a toilet, dunking him in
there for a long time. We also pushed Falun Gong practitioners we thought were
stubborn under a bed and had a person sit on the bed, which broke some Falun
Gong practitioners' backs. I often thought of those brutal scenes after I left the forced labor camp,
and was often in fear and trembling because of the bad deeds I had done. I
always hope that I won't get retribution. This year, one of my acquaintances,
who always participated in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, almost
lost his life in a car accident as he was driving after drinking alcohol. I had not realized until now that doing bad deeds without receiving
retribution just does not happen. We should repent to the people that we hurt
and repent to God--not just to reduce the pain of feeling guilty but to learn
from those Falun Gong practitioners and become truly good people! I hope to reduce my guilt by speaking out about these things today. But more
importantly, I want to call for more people to stop the persecution of Falun
Gong practitioners. May 26, 2005
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