[Minghui Net]
Dear members of the Geneva International Human Rights Commission:
I am a Falun Gong practitioner in China. I would like to report to you the real story of how the labor camps in China "transform" Falun Gong practitioners.
The Chinese media often mentions "the rate of transformation." Do you know what is behind this "transformation?"
I am also a Falun Gong practitioner who was once detained in a labor camp, and went through the "transformation process." I was released after my so-called "transformation." How does the Labor Camp "transform" people? They frequently use methods such as electric shock and sleep deprivation. They also use many tortures that are not generally known, such as locking someone up in a tiny cell, "driving an airplane" (forcing one into a very painful position), stripping someone's clothes off and tying her/him to a cold iron bed to freeze in a cold room, and so on. There are many new "inventions," and "creations."
I witnessed with my own eyes one practitioner being shocked by police with electric batons. His body was full of wounds. The police threatened him, saying, "Don't tell other people!" Although some jailors do not beat people with their own hands, they instigate the criminals to do their dirty work. Those jailed criminals often have irrational mental states due to depression, after living in a harsh environment with no freedom for a long period of time. We can only imagine how much Falun Gong practitioners have suffered in their hands. When some practitioners could no longer bear to see the brutal beatings and reported them to the guards, they replied, "I did not beat anyone."
Sometimes I would hear heart broken screaming from the tiny cells. This was an extremely painful sound. One practitioner was cuffed on both hands and feet in a freezing dark cell for more than one month with few clothes on. Some practitioners were tortured to death, but the jailors labeled their deaths as suicide.
It was in such a terrifying place that I was unwillingly "transformed." I could not bear the violent tortures, and wrote the " Breaking (with Falun Gong) Statement." I was weeping while I was writing. Tears were rolling down and down. "How we wish our tears would flood away the evils on the earth and restore the reputation of Falun Dafa. How we wish our tears could wash away our shame and reveal our true hearts. We wept, for we could not firmly practice Falun Dafa openly and aboveboard; we wept heart brokenly for we did not keep our beliefs in truth."
Please pay attention to the suffering of innocent Falun Gong practitioners. We are all human beings, connected with flesh and blood. What crime did Falun Gong practitioners commit? Was it just because we practiced Falun Gong? Was it just because we used the rights provided by the constitution to appeal to the government? Was it just because we wanted to improve our morality, and be good people?
It is a tragedy for the whole human society that Jiang Zemin and his followers use the power in their hands to torture and persecute good people.
I earnestly call on all people who love peace to repress evil and promote kindness; to use your noble vote to stop the crimes committed by Jiang Zemin and his followers.
A Falun Dafa Practitioner from Mainland China
April 14, 2001
