The Xishanping Labor Camp in Chongqing City used various kinds of means to persecute Dafa practitioners being detained there. Here we disclose some of the facts obtained through various channels, in order to inform people all over the world and to expose these horrible deeds.
In Xishanping, the discipliners used all available people, including other inmates, to monitor Dafa practitioners 24 hours a day. If they discovered someone practicing the exercises or studying the Law, they would torture and levy various penalties to those practitioners. For example, Dafa practitioner Meng Xiantao was confined in a separate room for more than 40 days because of practicing the exercises; Yi XX and Xie XX were handcuffed outside to trees for three days and nights just for practicing the exercises; Li Xiangdong was handcuffed for seven days and nights for practicing the exercises. In the harsh disciplined squadron, some Dafa practitioners were injured from "binding the chicken wings"(being tightly tied up with strong ropes until it cuts into the skin) for more than 20 minutes. Some of the practitioners still cannot move their hands. The inmates and discipliners viciously beat Dafa Practitioners Wu XX and others for practicing the exercises, until a small wooden chair was broken to pieces. Some of the practitioners could not stand up after being beaten up. Also, while some practitioners were practicing, the discipliner kicked them and stepped on their heads. Cao Xianlu was forced to sit in water with bare feet while being shocked continuously until the electric stun baton ran out of electrical charge. The vicious intent of these perpetrators was heartless and out of control. Similar examples are countless.
In order to breakdown and devastate Dafa practitioners, the evil force imposed high-intensity labor and physical exercise drills on Dafa practitioners and didn't allow them to take any rest. Everyday, from 6am until lunch time and from 3pm until supper time, Dafa practitioners were forced to run over 10,000 meters. For the longest run, they were even forced to run around the basketball court 130 times. Generally, they were forced to do push-ups for 100 times; however, they were sometimes forced to do them up to 270 times. Dafa practitioner Cao Xianlu legs were jumped on by inmates who jumped very high in the air then landed with one foot on his legs. They called this torture the "hot and spicy chicken legs" and did this six times to his legs. He couldn't walk for several days, and continued to feel the pain even one month later. Even under such conditions, he was forced to lift sand bags (each about 150 kilograms) and walk around when he was injured and barely able to walk. He was required to walk around double the time required of the new criminals. When he finished the lifting sand bags, he was forced to do the "frog-jump" until he fainted.
Besides "physical drills", during all other hours, (Dafa practitioners) were forced to do the lean against the wall with the nose touching and the full weight of the body pressing against the wall. They called this torture the "house lizard standing" and had to hold this position without moving all day until 3 or 4 am the following day.
Zhang XX and three other Dafa practitioners were penalized and forced to do more than 200 push-ups and to do 300 leg squats continuously in the rain because they refused to sing the Internationale (Note: Communist national song). When they finished, they almost fainted. Fellow practitioner Li Chunguo was even forced to drink urine in the Police Custody Station!
In this harsh discipline squadron, the persecution of Dafa practitioners was even worse than other in other squadrons. The captain of that squadron said, "We should use the Cultural Revolution's style of verbal-abusing, humiliation and and punishments on Falun Gong". You can imagine how evil it is just from his statement. Dafa practitioners Kang Hong and Meng Xiantao were injured as a result of torture and had to be hospitalized. Kang Hong was even hospitalized several times. Because the news was tightly blocked, we couldn't get many detailed facts.
After August 2000, the Labor Camp monitored practitioners even more closely. Practitioner Cao Xianlu refused to write the "three reports" ["Letter of Guarantee"(of not practicing Dafa later); "Written Statement of Repentance"; "Guilty Pleading"]. When his mother died, his family came to tell him the news. He was not allowed to see his mother for the last time. When it was finally agreed (that he could see his mother) after "the case was studied", his mother had already been cremated.
Faced with evil's crazy doings, all of us Dafa practitioners in Xishanping together went on hunger strikes three times before the scum had to think twice and restrain themselves a little bit.
In spite of the loneliness and persecution, all of us Dafa practitioners in Xishanping Labor Camp are still as persistent as we were in the beginning and would never waver in our determination. Master, please rest assured, we would never let our Teacher down and we would be worthy of Teacher's pain. We would do whatever we should do excellently during the celestial phenomena of "assisting our Teacher in the world" and before "the law rectifying the world".
Finally, all of us Dafa practitioners in Xishanping Labor Camp extend the assurance of our highest consideration and great respects to our Teacher!
All Dafa Practitioners in Xishanping Labor Camp in Chongqing City
9/30/2000 (collated on 10/17/2000)
