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The Masanjia Labor Camp Brings in Male Guards to Persecute Women Falun Dafa Practitioners
By a practitioner from Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Previously there were no male guards in the
Second Women's Section of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Around the lunar New
Year 2005, detained Falun Dafa practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is
great!" which shocked the evildoers. Groups of male guards were then
transferred to the Second Women's Section. The camp authorities use the men to
persecute women practitioners. Whenever practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is great!" the male
guards and the female brigade head would pounce on them. Some of them beat the
practitioners, some dragged them, some gagged them, and some handcuffed them.
When the practitioners continued to shout, they taped their mouths shut,
wrapping tape around the head in several layers. Sometimes they gagged
practitioners with a towel; sometimes they handcuffed practitioners to heating
pipes for different periods of time. Then they locked the practitioners in
confinement cells. After the 2005 New Year, some practitioners who had succumbed to brainwashing
awakened and realized that they had taken the wrong path. Some of them refused
to do the physical exercises the camp required. Many of them wrote a solemn
declaration to return to Dafa cultivation. Some practitioners were secretly
sharing their understandings. The majority of practitioners who were brainwashed
began to awaken. The labor camp authorities were extremely afraid of that. On
March 31, 2005, the labor camp authorities separated the steadfast practitioners
from the brainwashed practitioners. They singled out the practitioners who
refused to work for the labor camp, who refused to do the physical exercises,
who refused to listen to the "reformation" lectures, who resisted the
persecution, and established a separate group for them, called the No. 1
Brigade. Brigade 2 consisted of practitioners who had once been
"reformed" but later became clear-minded and returned to Dafa after
awakening. Brigade 3 consisted of practitioners who were brainwashed and
"reformed." On the afternoon the labor camp reorganized the brigades, several
practitioners in each cell refused to wear the prison uniforms or took off the
prison uniform as a sign they resist the persecution. The police officers forced
them to wear the uniforms, dragged them outside and forced them to stand for a
prolonged period of time, beat them, handcuffed them, or dragged them into
confinement cells. Dafa practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is great!"
and "Stop persecuting Dafa practitioners." The guards are afraid of
the words "Falun Dafa is great." They slapped the practitioners' faces
hard. The male guards beat the women practitioners until their faces swelled and
their eyes almost swelled shut. They also poked the cheeks of practitioners who
shouted, "Falun Dafa is great." The next morning, on April 1, 2005, all practitioners in Brigade 1 took off
their prison uniforms. Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts and righteous
actions triumphed over the evil! It exhibited the great power of Dafa
practitioners as one body. The labor camp authorities resorted to a new trick. In Brigade 1, they sealed
all the doors and windows of the cells that confined practitioners. They then
covered all the windows with dark plastic to prevent anyone from looking in or
out, leaving only the top of the window uncovered, permitting a little light to
go through. They made a cut about an inch long in the lowest corner of windows
and doors. The head of the brigade and guards monitored practitioners through
these cuts every few minutes. The practitioners were confined in these cells all
along, except for two daily toilet breaks. They did not allow them to go to the
dining hall, but brought the food to these cells. Practitioners were forced to
sit from 5:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. If the brigade head felt unhappy, she would
force them to sit until 10:00 p.m. or 11:00 p.m. Practitioners were prohibited
from talking or getting close to one another. The labor camp authorities
announced through the loudspeaker, "Brigade 1 is under closed governance.
Practitioners there eat third-class food, the coarsest grains every day.
'Reformed' practitioners eat first-class food, flour and rice all day.
Practitioners in Brigade 2 eat second-class food, half coarse food and half
flour and rice. There are three classes [of detainees] altogether." One practitioner had good teeth before she came to the labor camp, but now
has only one tooth left. Because she firmly resisted the evil persecution, the
police officers escalated the persecution against her. They forced her to sit in
the confinement cell, and gave her hard, half-raw and half-cooked hoecakes for
meals. The daily three meals also consisted of salted turnip sticks. She could
only break off a piece of cake and swallow it with a bite of turnip stick. After
she was forced to sit in the confinement cell for one month, the brigade head
asked her if she still persisted in her belief. She answered, "Yes."
They continued to confine her. On April 25, practitioners in each cell in Brigade 1 shouted, "Falun
Dafa is great!" A group of guards rushed into the cells and beat them. The
brigade head slapped the practitioners hard. Some practitioners were dragged out
and handcuffed and made to stand for long periods of time. A practitioner was
handcuffed for two days. The head guard shocked her eyes until one of the
eyelids turned black. They shouted that they would extend practitioners' terms.
They compiled false reports and forced the practitioners to sign them. Dafa
practitioners didn't acknowledge the illegal detention and the extension of
terms. Nobody signed the papers. May 13 is "Falun Dafa Day." Practitioners from all the cells again
shouted, "Falun Dafa is great!" Practitioners in some cells were doing
the exercises, and in other cells practitioners were sending forth righteous
thoughts. In some cells, practitioners underwent a hunger strike for three days
to resist the persecution. They were thus persecuted even more frenetically. The
guards rushed into each cell and screamed at and beat the practitioners. Some
dragged the women out, some beat them. Practitioners were once again dragged out
and handcuffed. Some practitioners were handcuffed and forced to stand for three
days, some for two days. They were later dragged back to the confinement cells.
It was during the hot summer and the confinement cells weren't ventilated. Sweat
soaked the practitioners' clothes. Besides that, practitioners had very bad
food, so many of them felt dizzy and weak. A practitioner from Brigade 1 was reported to the authorities as "Anti-CCP"
just because she sent forth righteous thoughts and did the exercises. On July 6
she was handcuffed and dragged into a police car. They said that they would send
her to Dabei (now the Prison City in Shenyang). Some practitioners continued to
do the exercises and were again persecuted in the same way as before and
confined in the small cells. Practitioners who were badly injured from gross abuse and those who were
extremely weak from hunger strikes and forced feeding were dragged in and out by
the authorities. Some practitioners were persecuted to the extent that they were
at death's door. The guards and the brigade head would rather force-feed them
than release them. The labor camp authorities are still delaying the release of the
practitioners who are at the brink of death. One practitioner had been illegally
locked up for three years by April 2005 and is still locked up there. She is
also suffering from high blood pressure. To resist the evil and demand her
release, she refused to eat the camp food, but instead ate instant noodles she
bought with her own money. She is still being detained in the labor camp. Many
practitioners are now detained past their term Dafa practitioners do not
acknowledge the illegal detention and, of course, they don't acknowledge the
legitimacy of the terms these lawless persons sentenced them to. As of 2005, many practitioners whose three-year or two-year terms had expired
have been held over for several months. The labor camp authorities just refuse
to release them.
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