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(Clearwisdom.net) Editor's note: Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Ming is a Chinese national living in Ireland. He was arrested while visiting his family in China at Christmas in 1999. It was then that his subjection to nearly two years of cruel torture which began while detained in a labor camp by the Jiang regime. After continuous appeals by Falun Gong practitioners and people from all levels of Irish society with a sense of justice, he was finally released in March 2002.
I have been back in Ireland for nearly two years since I was released from Tuanhe Labor Camp, now I am holding an Irish refugee identity and looking for a job after finishing my Masters Degree Dissertation.
After being released almost two years ago, my lower legs still feel numb, and they feel painful after walking too far. I always thought that it was caused by the torture called "soldier-like squatting" that I was subjected to in Xinan Labor Camp. But later, more and more things came back to my memory, which made me realize that the Neurotoxic Medicine I was forced to take might have caused it.
The persecution that I have made public was all that I was subjected to directly, or what I saw that definitely happened in China. Many victims can testify to a lot of the persecution methods. In the future when the persecution has ended, these things can be verified. I have never spoken of anything that I could be accused of overstating and what I have talked about is down-to-earth evidence according to the law. Actually there are things that I have not mentioned, for example, I ate food which was laced with Psychochemical Medicine without being aware of it. As I did not see these things happen as directly as things like being beaten up, I have never mentioned them. However, as my memory returns gradually, there are a lot of clues unraveling that I would like to speak about.
I was subjected to corporal punishment in Xinan Labor Camp between April and May in 2001, which was the end of my labor imprisonment term. The guards in Xinan Labor Camp started to increase the torture, and the numbness in my legs was from long periods of the "soldier-like squatting" torture. Later on my prison term was extended and I was transferred to Tuanhe Labor Camp after which their was relief from the numbness. But at the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2002, I felt the numbness in my legs and feet was getting worse even though I was not subjected to corporal punishment, which made me wonder what was causing this deterioration.
Before the Chinese New Year of 2002, I was segregated in the west building of Tuanhe Labor Camp on the ground floor and monitored twenty-four hours a day. In this isolated situation, it was impossible for me to know whether my food was laced with any medicine. But the food I was given during that period was very salty. I vomited once soon after I was sent there. One night I could not go to sleep and kept turning over as my stomach was very uncomfortable, the food I ate kept coming up and I was nauseous. I got up immediately and ran to the toilet to throw up every thing I ate that evening, so that I could get some sleep. Ever since I started practicing Falun Gong my stomach had been fine, and I did not eat anything unusual that evening, so this kind of vomiting was really strange.
Force-fed by police
I remember when detained at the Seventh Department in June 2000, I refused to eat and drink. I was force fed by the doctor in charge of the clinic, who was called Vet Liu by other prisoners. One day, he brought in over ten policemen who stood in a circle in the clinic. I was pressed to the floor in the middle of them for force-feeding. He crushed some tablets on the table saying he was preparing "nurture liquid" for me. When the "nurture liquid" was ready, he used a large filled syringe and started to force feed me through my nose. I counteracted resolutely and threw up incessantly. So that the tube attached to my nose would come out from my mouth. He plugged the tube into my nose again and again and made my nose bleed, but he failed at the end. He was utterly furious and said, "Keep injecting, at least something will flow in eventually." Thus, when the tube was stuck half way down my gullet, they started to inject the "nurture liquid" into the tube, but I vomited most of it out. The liquid was very bitter. I do not how many tablets he put in, but I was not ill at all at that time. When I came back to the house where I was detained, I vomited again and again. In fact, I had been on a hunger-strike so that there was nothing in my stomach. That little amount of "nurture liquid" that was thrown up with a heavy smell of western medicine. We all know that western medicine is not supposed to be taken when on an empty stomach as it causes a strong stimulus to the stomach. I was not ill at that moment. The reason he forced-fed me with the dense when I had been on a hunger-strike for days was to torture me, which was very cruel. Luckily I counteracted that little amount that entered my stomach, otherwise it cannot be estimated what I would have suffered.
It made me think that the vomiting was caused by the medicine in the food I was force-fed. At the beginning of 2002, the feelings of numbness in my legs and feet were getting worse and worse. I mentioned it to the police and they took me to the nearby Tuanhe Hospital for a medical check up. The doctor used a metal knife like tool and touched the skin all over my body, when the skin was touched, it immediately started a pumping reaction, this was to check the nerve-endings function. As he was checking the front of my body, I was able to see every part he examined. I was surprised to see there was no reaction when he examined the skin near the groin of my legs. The doctor checked repeatedly for several times, I remember he asked me at least three times, "Are you incontinent?" I replied that I was not. Although my feces and urine were in control, I still got an abnormal feeling that the inside of my rectum and urethra were numb, I was not sure whether I had finished properly every time I went to the toilet.
It can be sure that the numbness symptoms in my groin and excretory organs appeared during the period I was segregated, as they did not exist while I was in Xinan and subjected to the squatting tortures. I was not subjected to corporal punishment when I was segregated, so it must be the result of taking a Neurotoxin. The numbness in my legs and feet were increased by this kind of medicine.
I remember watching the Japanese film "Track Down" when I was young. Inspector Duqiu slipped into a mental hospital for an undercover investigation. He was forced to take Neurotoxic Medicine. Every time he took the medicine, he would place his fingers in his larynx to puke out the medicine as so to protect himself. In my case, I did not think of any protection as I was unaware of what was going on. Luckily Falun Gong practice protects practitioners automatically, and vomiting and excretion drained off most of the medicine I took. Otherwise I might have suffered the misfortune of one of the patients in the film.
Now when I recall, I can still remember I was not feeling well after I was released. No food was tasty to me and I could not get to sleep. My head was numb, and the feeling was worse than the hardest time I felt when tortured in the labor camp. I was fighting to get just a little sleep. Later on I wrote an article mentioning the numbness and that I believed it was caused by the persecution. Now I realize the numbness was caused by the Neurotoxic Medicine to a large extent.
Rationally, it is obvious that a single guard does not conduct the use of Neurotoxic Medicine in labor camps. In general they do not have the specific knowledge of the medicinal source. I believe ordinary guards are not able to do these kind of things. The direct executors must be those "special guards" that were watching me, because other people would not have had the chance to lace my food with medicine.
The methods employed in the persecution against Falun Gong have definitely reached the extreme in terms of wickedness. Right now the guards still think that the things they have done are hidden very well. In fact, when the day Jiang Zemin is taken down and justice can be upheld in China comes, all police officers and officials participating in this persecution will blow the whistle on each other to escape responsibility. At that time the entire truth will be revealed.
