Sweden: Exposing CCP Tyranny during Seminar on China's Human Rights (Photos)
By a Swedish Dafa practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 19, 2006, Swedish NGO "Support Human
Rights in China" (abbreviated as SHRIC) held a seminar in ABF-huset
Conference Center in Stockholm on the topic of "China's Human Rights and
the Future". During the seminar, He Xiulan narrated her personal encounters
in China due to the persecution of Falun Gong. She is a former officer in the
finance leaders group in the Jilin Provincial Council and a Falun Gong
practitioner who was persecuted and later rescued out of China. The seminar
exposed the brutal suppression by Jiang Zemin and the CCP against Falun Gong
practitioners, and also called for just and kindhearted people to stand up
together and say: "Stop the persecution!" Below is He Xiulan's speech: Greetings everyone My name is He Xiulan, and I used to be an officer in the finance leaders
group in the Jilin Provincial Council. I was persecuted by the CCP for
cultivating Falun Gong, then I was rescued by the United Nations Human Rights
Organization and I am lucky to have come today to a free country - Sweden.
Here on this occasion I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the
Swedish government! I was very pleased after receiving the invitation from the Swedish SHRIC.
Over the last few days I especially made 200 lotus flowers for the SHRIC
organizers who held this seminar and also for the guests who are concerned about
China's human rights situation. I whole-heartedly wish you all a wonderful
future! Today on this occasion, I would like to talk about two things with my
personal experiences. In a democratic country, people are free to choose what they believe in. Yet
in China, even though "freedom of belief" is written in the
constitution, the CCP actually does not allow people to have the freedom of
faith. It is only a camouflage of being "civilized" and is only there
for show to the rest of the world. In fact the CCP has never stopped its
tyrannical dictatorship for one single day. The former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, being selfish and narrow-minded, grew
jealous of the tens of millions of people practicing Falun Gong. He took
advantage of the power he had in hand and started the illegal persecution of
Falun Gong in July 1999. The army, the police and spies, radio stations, TV
station and newspapers were all used to fabricate, slander and persecute Falun
Gong from all sides, at the same time Falun Gong practitioners were deprived of
the right to appeal. The CCP does not allow Falun Gong practitioners to have a
say at all. I used to suffer from coronary disease, ossein proliferation and other
illnesses. In July 1998 I got a gynecological tumor. After months of treatment
the tumor only became bigger. Expert doctors decided to carry out an operation.
I was lucky to have read Zhuan Falun on the eve of the operation and I
felt that it was very good, so I had the intention to start cultivation. A few
days later when having an ultrasound image scan in hospital, the doctors found
that the tumor become smaller and I didn't have to have an operation anymore. I
was astonished by this supernormal and miraculous phenomenon and so I started to
cultivate as well. Soon, all signs of sicknesses healed without treatment. I
also got rid of many bad habits. In the end I had a healthy mind and a healthy
body, and my family was harmonious. How could such a good practice be
persecuted? At the end of 2000 I decided to go to Beijing appeal to the relevant
organizations. When I arrived at the appeal office four or five policemen
twisted my arms, grabbed my clothes and stuffed me in a police van. Then I was
put into Beijing Xuanwu District Detention Center. On a cold winter's night, the policemen of Xuanwu District Detention Center
threw me out into the courtyard to freeze me. They forced me to sit on the
concrete floor and soon I was shivering thoroughly. Then together with 18 other
female Dafa disciples we were locked into a cell and the police told the
criminals to keep watch on us. The criminals had blankets, pillows and lived in
a corner, while we had nothing at all. The 18 of us slept one next to the other,
head on heels, squashed on a hard floorboard. There was no toilet in the cell, but there was a tap and a stone sink beneath
it, which were used for washing and urinating. A plastic bucket was placed in
the cell for excrement. We could only use the waste bucket once everyday, and
the whole cell stank horribly. At night we had to open the windows even during
sleep, and it was both cold and smelly - it was really like hell on earth. During this period of time the police interrogated us at will. Many people
have been abused by the police - the police slapped us, pulled our hair, burnt
us with cigarette butts and beat us with rods. The police even sexually
assaulted some and showed no mercy to even a 50 year-old Dafa disciple. Falun Gong practitioners inside China are frequently harassed and abducted.
In March 2003, I was illegally kidnapped by the Changchun City Police along with
my colleagues Chen Jing and Wang Wei. The police forcibly tied us to
specially-made steel chairs and forced us to answer questions such as if I had
ever supplied evidences for the overseas lawsuit against Jiang Zemin or how I
got hold of tapes of Master's lectures which were found on me. They threatened
me: "If you don't answer, we'll take out one month to give one by one your
family and relatives a very cruel and troublesome time." Meanwhile Chen Jing and Wang Wei were slapped by the police, and after having
plastic bags put over their heads they were beaten by rods, whipped by belts and
suffered other tortures like twisting the wrists. These police have accumulated lots of wicked experiences during their long
career of evil-doing: If a person is beaten with plastic bags put on then there
wouldn't be any exterior injuries; Twisting the wrists creates the most
unbearable pain. Sooner or later, the person starts to feel fatigued and weak
because the tendons have been injured but no exterior mark is left. After half a
year Chen Jing still could not carry heavy things with her arms. Later the three of us were unlawfully sentenced to forced labor re-education
and were detained in different centers. I was sent to the Shuanyang Third
Detention Center and the conditions there were not too different from Bejing
Xuanwu Distict Detention Center, except that there were more detained Falun Gong
practitioners there. A cell of about 20 meters could hold 40 or 50 people. At
night we sleep squashed side by side and could not turn. Every day I was forced to sit on a hard plank and eventually the skin around
my tail bone was bruised and broken. The pain was intolerable. When I first went
into the detention center I weighed 63 kilograms but when I left, I only weighed
40. My whole body was unrecognizable. Altogether I have been illegally abducted by the police twice, and altogether
I have passed three months in detention. Even so, I am fortunate amidst many
misfortunes. Nevertheless, other Dafa disciples have been persecuted to death. In the period of time I was detained in Shuanyang Third Detention Center,
another Falun Gong practitioner of about 50 years old called Li Shuqian was sent
to our cell from another cell. When she came in, her hands and feet were
shackled together so that she couldn't walk straight. She protested against the
CCP persecuting her by going on hunger strike. When she did that, the police
gave her force-feedings. In China the police would find all kinds of ways to torment you until you
give up your belief. Li Shuqin told me: The police are ruining people. Every
time they force-feed, they use a pipe and guide it in brutally so it goes all
over the place. Sometimes they force-feed salt water, raw corn flour, sometimes
even pepper or chili powder. On one day in May, a few inmates followed the
policemen into the toilet to force-feed Li Shuqin. She never came back. Later we
found out that she died during the force-feeding. Another Falun Gong practitioner, Wang Wei, was kidnapped four times and both
times he was sentenced to forced labor re-education for more than a year and up
to two years. There he was cruelly tortured and he spent most of the past seven
years in prison. After regaining freedom, he was fired by his company. Now he
has a home which he cannot return to and roams the streets homeless. His wife
lives an anxious and miserable life with their young child. Another Falun Gong practitioner, Chen Jing, was captured five times and has
been brutally beaten up by and sworn at by the police. She has been hung up and
the handcuffs and shackles dug into her skin so that her bones were exposed. Her
home has been ransacked many times and was under constant surveillance by the
street police. Now she has been excluded from her company and is homeless with
her elderly mother in unfamiliar places far away from home. My colleague Zhang Zhongxu used to be the deputy head editor of the Jilin
Provincial council's official magazine Before the Chinese New Year in 2001, the company's managers under the order
of the 610 office forced Zhang Zhongxu to give up his belief and decided to hand
Zhang over to the police to be sent to a "brainwashing" class.
Consequently Zhang Zhongxu was forced to leave his place at the company. Ever
since then he has became an important target for the persecution of the 610
offices in the province and the city. The wicked police went everywhere to
arrest him. Sometimes they would break into his house in the middle of the night
and threaten his wife and daughter. Sometimes they even harass his other
relatives. Zhang Zhongxu has been illegally seized by the public security police many
times, and every time he suffered severe beatings. The villainous police slapped
him, twisted his arms, beat him with rods, violently force-fed him and tormented
him with electric batons and other torture methods like the tiger bench. Every
time his whole body was bruised all over. The worst time was when an evil police
from Changchun city shocked him with four batons of different voltages
alternatively. There was nearly no piece of good skin left on his face, neck,
shoulders, arms, back and front of body, two legs and genitals. His skin has
been electrified into sludge and some places have turned black. His genitals
were shocked so much they were swollen and he found it hard to go to the toilet.
He couldn't walk for 20 days. A month later when I saw him again, there were
still patches of black scabs on his forearms. Over the last few years Zhang Zhongxu has suffered severe persecution. His
family and relatives have also suffered great oppression. His mother could not
stand such inhumane violence and she left the world. Zhang Zhongxu's big sister
couldn't stand the two heavy emotional strokes and soon after her mother's
death, she had a heart attack and died as well. An originally harmonious family
has been torn apart, injured and killed by the CCP's and Jiang Zemin's inhumane
and immoral brutality. However from what I have seen, the tragic misfortunes of
Zhang Zhongxu's family are not the only case amongst Falun Gong practitioners in
China. The CCP leaders claim to the outside world: "Chinese people's human
rights are at their best right now". That's completely lies. II. The CCP brainwashes its people. For those who do not conform to the one
voice allowed, the CCP will destroy their reputation, bankrupt them financially
or annihilate them physically. "Brainwashing" and "conversion" have only been brandished
publicly in recent years after the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong. In
fact since the CCP came into power, it has been brainwashing the people with
party culture, enslaving them. It twisted the distinction between good and evil,
confused right and wrong. It worships conflict philosophy, initiating a
political movement every few years. At a whim, it defines people fallen out of
favour as capitalist-roaders, spies, scabs, Rightists, rioters, evil cult
members, etc., whom it vilifies to the extremes to instigate hatred of one
faction of people to fight with another. My former employer designated one director and three section chiefs each to
"help educate" me and two other colleagues who are also Falun Gong
practitioners. They had chats with us periodically. From time to time, group
"help and education" meetings similar in nature to criticize meetings
at the Party branch level were held. Sometimes certain chiefs were tasked to
give lectures. Sometimes the entire staff was mobilized to criticize in turn. As
many as six people talked to me in one day. Their goal was to make me give up my
belief. They threatened during "help and education," "You will have no
future unless you renounce." The CCP believes in atheism and cannot
tolerate you. Later, as I would not give up my belief, I was taken off of the
shortlist for a vice-ministry level post and demoted from a chief editor to an
ordinary manager. According to the lies spread by the CCP, Falun Gong practitioners are all
"infatuated". Employers or labour camps transfer all those who would
not renounce to a central place for special brainwashing classes to
"assault the fortified". According to Wang Wei, the police lectured him twenty-four hours a day in
four shifts. The police took turns to rest while he was not allowed to rest.
After forty-eight hours, he was no longer clear-headed. In some other instances
practitioners are forced to read fabricated stories that slender Falun Gong.
Those resist will meet with various punishments. Westerners may not be able to understand why the employers or co-workers
interfere with individual's beliefs? Why are the Chinese police so brutal? Why
are they not brought to justice when they are committing crimes or killings? In China, the CCP that controls everything is above the country, above the
law. The Party set up a reward system that linked everything to the persecution
of Falun Gong. The police and party members regard persecuting Falun Gong as
their jobs. Those who convert more practitioners and those police who are the
most brutal are praised or promoted by their superior. The CCP's former Party General Secretary, Jiang Zemin, established the
genocide policy, "destroy their reputation, bankrupt them financially, and
annihilate them physically," against Falun Gong practitioners. As a result
the police can beat up practitioners without fearing consequences. In police's
own words, "We are but a tool, a stick of the CCP. We are paid to whack
whoever it pleases." This March, a dark secret came to light. Organs are harvested from many
living Falun Gong practitioners. Top level CCP officials, the military and
doctors all profit from participation. This is the bitter fruit of the CCP's
long-term brainwashing, which indoctrinate people with inhuman, materialistic
way of thinking. The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party exposed numerous
atrocities of the CCP, taking over eighty million lives through various
political movements. Where there is the CCP there is tyranny, killing, lies and
brainwashing. After reading the Nine Commentaries, people saw the CCP's
evilness more and more clearly. Eleven million people have now renounced the CCP
after giving up illusions. The Communist camp in Europe has disintegrated. The former Soviet Union
collapsed overnight. The Chinese people shoulder the responsibility to dissolve
the CCP. I hope more of my fellow countrymen will awake to peacefully disband
the CCP. Only then can a new China begin. I call upon the international society and the peace-loving people all over
the world to voice righteousness, which is very important. The reason why I can
be here today to expose the tyranny of the CCP was that Clearwisdom net promptly
aired the news about my persecution. As a result many righteous people in and
outside of China made timely telephone calls to stop the persecution and helped
me write to the United Nations Human Rights Council. My former employer alone
received phone calls from six different countries. Those in charge of the
persecution were shocked, "How did people abroad know about this?" Therefore for those who are still being persecuted, I hope everyone can say
to the CCP, "Stop the persecution!" Thank you all.
At the Human Rights Seminar
He Xiulan exposing CCP persecution with personal experiences
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/22/131094.html
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