To Beijing Municipal Leaders:
On June 17, 2000 Gong Baohua (female, 35 years old), a Falun Gong
practitioner from Liudian Village, Liudian Town, Pinggu County, Beijing,
went to Beijing Municipal Petition Office to tell the truth about Falun
Gong. However, the police intercepted her and seven other practitioners at
the Dongzhimen bus station. After they were escorted back and detained at
the police station in Liudian Town, six of them were brutally beaten up by
the police. Ms. Gong received the harshest beating. The X-ray at the
Hongyukou clinic showed that the bridge of her nose was broken (see
Attachment for the certificate of diagnosis). Local villagers and Ms. Gong's
family demanded that she be released and receive treatment at home. However,
fearing the rage from the public and to cover up their misconduct, the local
police sent Ms. Gong and the other practitioners to the County detention
center, instead. On the 19th, some local practitioners went to the relevant
County departments to explain the facts but some of them were also detained
in the County detention center. Without alternatives, Ms. Gong and other
detained practitioners went on hunger strikes to verify their innocence with
their lives.
At around 8:00PM on the 25th, eight practitioners including Gong Baohua were
brought for force-feeding through the nose. Ms. Gong was the last one that
was force-fed. Prior to force-feeding, a practitioner warned the guard of
the danger of force-feeding Ms. Gong because of her nose injury. But the
guard brushed the warning aside and said, "It's not your
business". After Ms. Gong returned to her cell, her face turned dark
and she repeatedly said that her chest was numb and she suspected the guard
had plugged the tube into her windpipe. About 10 minutes later, she suddenly
lost consciousness. Her inmate practitioners immediately called for help
from the guard but no one answered. After a while, Ms. Gong slowly regained
consciousness. Then the guard arrived and took her for emergency treatment.
No one, however, was allowed to accompany her. The next morning, Ms. Gong
returned. Since her condition looked very bad that day, other practitioners
made several requests to the guard to give her an examination. Later she was
called out by the guard, and then sent back in the afternoon. However, her
condition did not improve -in the evening. In the morning of the 27th,
noticing that her condition deteriorated rapidly, other practitioners again
asked the guard to take her out for an examination. At around 10:00AM, the
jail doctor realized her very poor condition and finally sent her to a
hospital. There was no news until around 9:00PM when the hospital confirmed
that Gong Baohua had died.
In the short period of 9 days, the police in the police station and the
guards in the only "first-class" county-level detention center in
Beijing tortured Ms. Gong Baohua until she died. Her child lost a mother and
her husband stumbled around in vain appealing for help. To prevent the
incident from escalating, all governmental departments in the County gave
the same response; that Ms. Gong had died of pneumonia. But how could the
people believe that? Although the director of the Town police station was
replaced, his successor was the former associate director in charge of cells
in the County detention center. Once in charge, he vented all his rage (from
being demoted from the County level) on the kind-hearted Falun Gong
practitioners.
We question when this type of brutal conduct will come to an end?
Please think about it: If our opinions could be channeled to the central
government through the local government leaders, how would the people spend
the extra money not spent taking trips to Beijing to appeal? If our voices
had received enough attention from the government leaders at different
levels, there would not have been any death in Pinggu, nor would there have
been over 30 people being tortured to death across the country. If the
people truly have lost their trust in the government, who should be
responsible for that? How could you shake off the responsibility?
We sincerely hope that the government leaders at different levels will be
responsible to the country, be responsible to the people, and live up to
their conscience and the title of public servants.
Falun Dafa practitioners in Pinggu County July 2, 2000
Attachment:
Certificate of Diagnosis at Pinggu County Hospital
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Record No.
Gong Baohuaáááááá
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35áááááááá surgical section
Residence address or work unit: Liudian (Village)
Brief description of diagnosis: Broken nose bridge
Recommended therapy:
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2.
Further treatment at the section of five sense organs
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Seal of the hospital:
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Date: June 18, 2000
