By Mingjian, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from China

The only reason that the No. 2 Squadron of the No. 2 Brigade in Shijiazhang Forced Labor Camp was established was to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Guards Bian Shuqiang, Zhang Li, and Dong Xinguo use all sorts of methods to persecute practitioners. In addition to participating in the persecution themselves, the guards also instigate Collaborators>"collaborators" and other inmates to torture Dafa practitioners physically and mentally. Below are some of their most often-used methods:

Before the Dafa practitioners arrive, the guards analyse the personal situations of each one and devise a tailor made persecution plan for them. As soon as the practitioners arrive, they are each taken to a small cell (there are three such cells in No. 2 Squadron) and separated from the other practitioners. Several inmates monitor each of them 24 hours a day. Practitioners are not allowed to sleep or lie down. There is no bed in the cell, only a table and a few stools.

The guards conduct their persecution plan in secret and create a terrifying, lonely and helpless atmosphere for the practitioners.

They arrange six to eight collaborators to help "transform" the practitioners. Two or three collaborators team up to "talk" to the practitioners in turn 24 hours a day, exhausting the practitioners both physically and mentally, numbing their spirits, making their mental states becomes fuzzy. Then they poison practitioners' minds with their misunderstandings and try to make them go astray. The guards tightly control all of these activities. This kind of physical and psychological persecution goes on continuously for three to five days, but sometimes for more than a dozen.

At this stage, the guards usually put on a false face of "kindness." While they don't show up very often, they monitor everything closely, having the collaborators report to them every one or two hours. Sometimes they stealthily peer into the cells through tiny peepholes in the doors or windows especially made for this purpose. They adjust their persecution methods according to the situation of each practitioner. Every Dafa practitioner who has been sent to the 202 Squadron has suffered this kind of persecution.

The guards use collaborators to distort the content of Dafa books and Teacher's articles by quoting the contents out of context and wilfully misinterpreting the contents to mislead practitioners who haven't studied the Fa well. They try to confuse practitioners' hearts and minds to shake their righteous faith in Teacher and Dafa. They also try to induce practitioners to enlighten along the evil path by taking advantage of their attachments. For example, they twist "trying to be a good person" in Dafa's text into "learning from Lei Feng and being a good person," or "serving the people." They use "looking within" to mislead practitioners into believing that they must "abide by the law," thus denying Dafa practitioners' righteous actions safeguarding Dafa. They also attack our website to distance practitioners from Teacher and Clearwisdom (Minghui).

Under such great pressure, one practitioner's black hair turned white in one night. The guards play videos and read articles by those in literary and scientific circles, who write specifically to defame Teacher and Dafa, and to infuse practitioners with the Communist Party culture.

The guards instigate the inmates to physically torture, beat, bind and hang the practitioners who are steadfast in their belief or who they think have not been "transformed" well enough. In 2002, inmates, encouraged by the guards and collaborators, beat a practitioner named Fu. Another practitioner named Zhang was hung on a double bunk for a long period of time as punishment for refusing to "transform."

Four practitioners who were regarded as not having been "transformed" well were forced to sit on a small stool, facing the wall, for fifteen or sixteen hours a day. They were surrounded by inmates and had to sit there all day long except for going to the restroom and washing. If they disobeyed a little bit, the monitoring inmates severely beat or abused them. Every day, against their will, they were forced to write articles that slandered Teacher and Dafa. There were even special requirements for using the restroom and washing: they had to wash before everyone else got up, they could only use the restroom when no other Dafa practitioners were there, and they had to be accompanied by the monitoring inmates.

The guards use every possible trick, threat and intimidation to push practitioners to the opposite side of Dafa. They force practitioners to speak or write words that slander Dafa, and try to force practitioners to act against their conscience and their moral values. They then force practitioners to write so-called "exposing and repudiating" articles to attack Dafa, and thus push the practitioners into an abyss that is difficult to climb out of. The guards also use this method to test whether practitioners have really been brainwashed successfully.

The special methods used to persecute practitioners include poisoning them while they are already in an extremely painful state of mind by forcing them to accept 17 false statements about Teacher and Dafa. They also force practitioners to express their "gratitude and loyalty" to the Communist Party. No matter what kind of eduction the practitioners have had, they have to write an "exposing and repudiating" article that is ten thousand words long. Then they have to read the article in public. It takes 40 to 50 minutes to read an article that long. For example, the Clearwisdom website reported the case of Dafa practitioners Chen Jingshan and Chen Heixiao. Chen Jingshan had only a primary school education and was tortured to death. Chen Heixiao lived in the countryside and was almost illiterate. Although it was extremely difficult for them and they hardly recognized the words, both of them were forced to hand copy "exposing and repudiating" materials that were as long as 20 pages and more than 10 thousand words.

The Chinese Communist Party is very cruel. They force their victims to commit crimes so as to drag them down, and persecute them spiritually and physiologically.

Guards Bian Shujiang, Zhang Li and Dong Xinguo of the 202 Squadron, Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp have been violently persecuting Dafa practitioners all these years. They will surely face retribution for their crimes.

The above is what I know of the 202 Squadron of the Shijiazhang Forced Labor Camp. Many of the acts they have committed in order to torture Dafa practitioners still remain undocumented.

December 20, 2005

Posting date: 1/9/2006
Original article date: 1/8/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/12/22/117063.html

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