The Path Returning Home (9)

(Clearwisdom.net)

11. A vicious police officer said, "We'll let you have a 'great' anniversary."

Police Gao Jie told me to bring my luggage with me and took me to the second floor of a building. Upon entering a room I saw practitioners Yang Yubo and Liu Guihua handcuffed. I asked them what happened. They said the police lied to them, and then I realized that we were confined.

The police staff [who are administrative persons, which is different from the guards of the camp] sent by the labor camp watched us closely and they cuffed our hands to the bed during the day and night. At first, the police staff were suspicious and thought we were causing trouble. Everyday we told them about the persecution we are suffering. They were very surprised when they heard it and couldn't believe the guards at the labor camp were so brutal. Being women themselves, they understood and sympathized with us and called out for support. Some of them directly spoke with labor camp officials and urged them to honor our request for a talk. On the bus, some condemned the vicious police authorities' inhuman behaviors. Later, they almost didn't handcuff us. Most of them handcuffed us only at the moment of switching their shift, and when they took over, they opened the handcuffs. I helped them clean their office, confinement room, the hallway and the restroom until these areas became immaculate. They all said Falun Gong practitioners are good people.

The night before the Chinese New Year I sat on the bed, not wanting to sleep. I wanted to practice Dafa exercises. I said to a police staff officer, "Today is New Year's eve, the last day of the year. I want to practice the exercises. Because of my decision to practice cultivation, I lost my job and a comfortable life. I can even give up my life for Dafa, because Dafa is so great. I hope you understand." The police officer said to another, "Then just let her practice." The other said, "Sure." The first police officer added, "Actually, even if you didn't say anything to me, I still wouldn't stop you." I began to do the sitting meditation and two other fellow practitioners also sat up and practiced the exercises. During the meditation, tears streamed down my face. After the exercise, I said to them, "I'm not crying for myself to be able to practice the exercises; I'm happy for you, because by doing so, you will certainly obtain a bright future." Three of us clarified the truth about the persecution every day to whoever came in contact with us. We wrote letters to reveal the criminal actions of the vicious police. Almost everyone in the various administrative sections of the labor camp learned about the persecution against us, including the deputy director, the disciplinary inspection office, the police department, the office, the administration section, the education section, the medical room, the accounting office, and more. A former practitioner who had compromised with the evil under pressure was also confined with us. Her name was Zhang Yingchun. She told us that she felt very upset about practitioner Tang Hong's death. During a brainwashing class, she tore up a vicious police's lecture notes. Because of this, she was confined in a "solitary" compartment with another practitioner. The vicious police forced her to write the "repentance statement" many times. [A repentance statement says that a practitioner will no longer practice Falun Gong; will never again go to Beijing to appeal for the Fa and will no longer associate with other practitioners.]

During the time we were confined, a new director came because practitioner(s) had been tortured to death. When we tried to talk to the new director, however, before I opened my mouth he said, "Stop it. Rockets have been sent into space and you are still spreading superstition." As he said this, he walked outside and didn't listen to us at all. After listening to us, political head Fu Maosheng said, "It's absolutely right to be tyrannical with you guys." Seeing that he was so unreasonable I said, "History is just. People who harm others will receive retribution sooner or later! You should learn from your two predecessors, that way you'd be truly thinking for yourself." After we spent several days in a solitary compartment, Wang Shujun was also sent in. Her face was pale and her body was shaking all over. At that time she had been on a hunger strike for two days. She told us that after we had left, they began a hunger strike to demand our release, an uninterrupted environment for studying the Fa and doing the exercises, and release of all innocently detained practitioners. The result of this was that Wang Shujun was also sent in a solitary compartment.

Wang Shujun was detained in the labor camp for more than one year during which time she was not allowed to study the Fa or do the exercises. Her health had improved through Dafa exercises before her incarceration. However, she was tortured to a wretched and miserable state. Because of continuous physical and psychological abuse and mistreatment in addition to severe malnutrition, her eyesight declined drastically and she also couldn't sleep at night. But never during the evil persecution did she give in; she persisted in her hunger strike. Listening to her story, I almost burst into tears. What kind of power is it that supports us to fight the evil with our lives in such a hell on earth? If it were not for Dafa and Teacher who has given us so much, how could we have possibly lasted until this day?

The four of us stayed together for only one day. The next day the police officers took away Yang Yubo and Liu Guihua. Wang Shujun and I stayed in the "solitary" compartment. I thought, as long as someone comes we will expose their crimes.

On the fourth day after Chinese New Year, which was the 12^th day after I was first put in a solitary compartment, guard Gong Chunbo accompanied by several guards took Wang Shunjun and me away from the confinement room. Wang kept vomiting along the way. They took us into an uninhabited and dilapidated building and they pushed us into a shabby room. Gong Chunbo said she was going to handcuff me. I asked her why. She said, "You violated labor camp rules." I said, "What rule did I violate? I was sent to solitary compartment only because I protested. However, the police officers stopped handcuffing us after they learned the truth about the persecution. Twelve days of detention is over, now why did you bring me here? Aren't you too evil?" Gong Chunbo didn't say anything. Under the watchful eyes of the police staff, Gong Chunbo, Sun Limin and several other guards snuck out and didn't handcuff me. Wang Shunjun lay on the bed and her face was a pasty white color. She was indeed too weak. The police ordered two prisoners to watch us and one of them told me in private that lots of practitioners were detained in other rooms. Yang Yubo and Liu Guihua were also handcuffed. Wang Shunjun and I again began a hunger strike and demanded our release. We demanded that the prisoner with sexually transmitted diseases and another malicious prisoner who watched us, to leave.

That night, Ms. Wang Shujun was extremely sick and fell into a coma. I immediately called the police staff on duty for help. She felt Wang's pulse and then called for the doctor. The doctor measured Wang's blood pressure, felt Wang's pulse, and said Wang was okay. Then the doctor left. After a while I tried to awaken Ms. Wang. She did not even open her eyes. I called the police staff again. She then called the doctor. Later, Chen Chunmei and the doctor came back and took Wang Shujun away. Afterwards I found out that officials in the labor camp were afraid that Ms. Wang would die here, so they had Wang's family bring her back home. After Ms. Wang let go of life and death, eventually she openly and nobly got out of the labor camp. Half a month later, I heard from a police officer that she saw Ms. Wang Shujun in a supermarket, looking energetic.

I still continued on the hunger strike and said to the police staff, "How come these prisoners can supervise us? And what's more, they are patients with contagious sexually transmitted diseases. If you lock me up with them, I definitely will not eat anything." Later on, the guards told division officials what I had said. Then the two criminals were finally transferred.

At a night, Zhu Tiehong introduced a new division chief named He Qiang. As He Qiang came in, he said to me, "I heard you were the chief trouble maker." I answered, "I have never made any trouble; instead, I have exposed the reason why I'm persecuted." I told him about the inhuman mistreatment against us, why I went on the path of cultivation and why I stepped forward to validate Dafa. He said the improvements to conditions of daily life could be negotiated. But he could not make any decision on an unconditional release, about studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. I said to him, "Our cultivation has never hurt anybody. Cultivation is good for nations and the whole human world, without doing any harm. I think a man should have a conscience and humanity. You should objectively analyze for yourself what is happening now. This has never happened before in history."

I told him further that, "The persecution involves so many people and has affected the whole world. This long-term persecution has not only suppressed Falun Gong practitioners, whereas people with justice all over the world are against the persecution. No matter whether or not the media keeps fabricating news, keeps slandering Dafa and keeps persecuting practitioners, Dafa disciples' righteous belief is still unshakable. On the contrary, more and more people from all over the world are becoming Dafa practitioners and are appealing for Falun Dafa. If it is bad, how could so many people practice it? If it is bad, why was the brutal torture not able to reform us? Just like what a policeman I knew once said, 'It is due to Falun Gong being supernormal that you all are so determined after you had been detained again and again, after you appealed times after times. If it were not so, you would not be detained.' In Jiamusi City's Forced Labor Camp alone, every day you face these three to four hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners. Relating their own experiences, they all told you that Falun Dafa is good. But you still do not believe. So what do you choose to believe, the propaganda on TV or the facts that speak for themselves?" And then I continued, "You said you would do whatever the Party tells you to do. If the Party orders you to kill people, are you going to follow that order? Actually, what you are doing is worse and more vicious than killing people or committing arson, because you are persecuting people who cultivate Buddhahood. You are harming others, and you are harming yourself even more."

I persuaded him to learn the lessons from his predecessor. I asked him to think twice about how to treat Falun Gong. We talked for over an hour. In the end he said all he could do is improve the living conditions. Practitioners could sit down and have a talk with him tomorrow.

On the second day we were divided into two groups for the meeting. Every practitioner was given three minutes to speak. The first practitioner who spoke was Wang Ping, a teacher from Jiamusi University. She said we were innocent, yet we were illegally detained and locked up in confinement cells. We were forced to listen to vicious propaganda, verbally abused and mentally and physically mistreated and tortured. This was inhumane. We strongly requested an end to the persecution and an unconditional release. A woman in her sixties, Ms. Zhao, said, "The Spring Festival is the day for family gatherings all over the country. However, thugs beat us up. We were handcuffed to beds and forced to sit on the iron chair, then put in handcuffs and shackled and locked onto the iron chair. A practitioner could not move at all in that torture position. [Illustration of this vicious torture position may be found at: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html] A policeman said he only handcuffed my hand, considering my age. However, he tightly tied me to a bed with ropes, winding it around again and again. Where is the humanity? I am over sixty years old. After practicing Falun Gong I got to know the purpose of my life. I do not care for life or death. I merely ask permission to study the Fa and practice the exercises."

After the other practitioners finished speaking, I brought forth several suggestions:

1. Stop broadcasting articles that are viciously slandering Dafa and Teacher;
2. Stop the mental and physical abuse and torture against us;
3. Requested unconditional release, be allowed to study the Fa and practice the Falun Gong exercises;
4. Stop forced brainwashing. The true purposes for brainwashing shouldn't be hidden from the public;
5. We should not be locked up alone. We ask for improvement to our living conditions, including doing exercises outdoors, bathroom use outside of our cells;
6. We should not be supervised by prisoners;
7. Guards should not deduct practitioners living expenses and should not falsify accounts;
8. We require officials in the division to report practitioners' true situation to upper-level authorities, to be responsible to country and citizens as befits convention;
9. We request the dismissal of Li Yadong, chief of the "strict administration" team; otherwise, we would continue the protest.

After the meeting, all practitioners who had been tied up for a total of nine days left the dilapidated building and went back to the "strict administration" team. We four practitioners reunited. The best news is that vicious policeman Liu Yadong was transferred from the "strict administration" team.

When I came back I heard about the ruthless maltreatment that happened on Chinese New Year's Eve. After Wang Shujun was locked up in confinement, other practitioners all went on a hunger strike to request a meeting with officials in the labor camp, demanding the release of all the practitioners who were locked in confinement, and the right to celebrate the Chinese New Year. On that day, vicious policemen deceived all practitioners in the "strict administration" team, saying that they would lead practitioners to meet with officials of the labor camp. After the practitioners arrived in front of the dilapidated building, policemen ordered those practitioners who requested to practice the exercise and did not obey the labor camp rules to "step out." Deng Chunxia was the first to step out. A dozen other practitioners followed her and stepped out. The rest were taken back.

Liu Hongguang, chief of No. 3 Division, shouted, "I am now declaring dictatorship against you." Then, dozens of policemen rushed in, grabbed practitioners by the hair, twisted practitioners' arms, pushed their heads down to the ground, and inhumanly beat them up.

Afterwards, practitioners were locked in this dirty, rundown building. On the Chinese New Year Eve of 2001, those, the most kind-hearted sisters who were sticking to the truth, were handcuffed onto the "dead person's beds" [The four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. Neither is he allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment can last from several hours up to more than a dozen days. ] and were also alternately tortured on "the iron chair." During the nine days of abuse and torture, half of Deng Chunxia's body went numb. She could not move her right hand and foot. After her handcuffs were unlocked and she was released from the iron chair, she had to lie in bed for several days.

Only because these people do not want to lie; only because these people want to let more people know the truth and not be deceived; only because these people present the most beautiful future to all the kind-hearted people around the world, they had to suffer these inhuman tortures.

12. Group Hunger Strike to Eliminate the Evils

On the night of February 9, 2001 the neighbor cell was in sudden chaos. Many policemen rushed into the hallway. Other practitioners and I ran over to see what happened. Division Chief He Qiang tied Deng Chunxia with a rope. I asked him why he was binding her. He Qiang said guard Xie Ying took Master's articles away from Deng Chunxia, but Deng Chunxia and other practitioners did not want to hand it over and wanted it back. After Xie Ying found a way out, Deng Chunxia ran after her. He saw it on the monitor, so he came over to tie up Deng Chunxia. I said, "Deng Chunxia had not recovered from the torture you did to her. Why are you torturing her again?" Then many other practitioners spoke to him and asked him to release Deng Chunxia, but he refused.

The next day all practitioners went on a hunger strike to persuade him to release Deng Chunxia and stop the abuse. The evil authorities were frightened when they saw us all on a hunger strike. On the fifth day they called the doctors in from the Chinese Traditional Medicine Hospital in the city to check the status of our health. Although practitioners had not eaten and had no liquids for five days, practitioners still clarified the truth to the visiting people with compassion, telling them that Falun Dafa is good.

Chief He Qiang was afraid of things getting out of his control, so he talked with Deng Chunxia. He said he would unlock her as long as she ate. Deng Chunxia sternly told him, "Forget it! You wanted to kill one to warn the rest of the practitioners. You got the wrong idea!" Then she laughed loudly. The thugs were shocked. Chief He Qiang eventually unlocked Deng Chunxia's handcuffs the fifth night. In the meantime, he came to persuade us to have some food.

None of us ate. We requested to study the Fa and practice the exercise. We requested our unconditional release! On the sixth day the evil authorities convened all male and female guards and doctors to force-feed us. They forcibly gave us injections. We refused the injections, but the policemen came at us and pushed us down. A vicious policeman gave a injection to Wang Junhua. Police officers also came to help. Wang Junhua said loudly, "Do you know that injecting drugs into a healthy human body is a crime?"

When they force-fed us the second time, the policemen dared not to give us injections. The hunger strike was continuing. Some practitioners lost consciousness in the hallway, some started to twitch, but none of us gave up.

This time, the police station sent two overseers who had guarded me before - Hu Ping and Zheng Liyan. They told me, "Please eat the food; our leader said that we have been transferred to the third division to take charge of you. From now on we will arrange your exercise time. The unruly guards will be gradually dispatched away." I said, "If so, would you ask He Qiang to come? I would like to verify what you said face to face with him." He Qiang came and said that I could discuss the practice issue with them and that they had the full authority and could make the decision. The human side of my heart was moved upon hearing this.

Hu Ping deployed an additional two "custodians" who had a good relationship with her. She promised that she would provide a practice environment for us in the future. As a result, I ate the rice congee [porridge] they brought. When Fu Meilin knew that I had eaten, she asked me, "How come you started to eat?" I told her about the "agreement" I made with them. Fu Meilin was the one who safeguarded the Fa after she obtained the Fa only three months ago. In 1999, she was sentenced to forced labor for one year. Her baby was only several months old at that time, and had not yet been weaned. Her husband is an army man and was forced to divorce her under pressure. Until now, she has been detained more than five months after the original term had expired. In order to be released unconditionally, she had been on a hunger strike several times. She also appealed to the local Justice Court. However, for Falun Gong practitioners in China there is no law.

After I had eaten I felt indescribable discomfort in my heart. When I discussed this with a fellow practitioner I understood that I had used my human side to consider Fa-rectification. Cultivation is the most righteous thing. It should be handled in an upright and noble way. Besides, we must create the correct environment. In the meantime, Dafa practitioners should be a unified entity. Everyone should be responsible to the entire entity. After I realized this, I felt very guilty for what I had done.

One day, Liu Guihua practiced the exercises in the room. The police officers locked her onto the bed for that. She called my name loudly and said, "If I die, please tell my family to sue them; tell them that I was abused to death by the police." With tears in my eyes I rushed out. Chen Chunmei blocked me and pushed me back. I shouted to her, "What qualifications do you have to push me? You pinched the nipples of female practitioners being a woman yourself. You are not a human being!" After hearing this, she threw up her hands and fled out of the room. Gao Jie came to push me back to the room..

On the tenth day of the hunger strike, the police gave us paper and pen to write comments. I wrote: "Restore the reputation of Dafa! Restore the reputation of Master Li! I want to practice Falun Gong. I want freedom. I want to be released and declared innocent. Don't disturb my cultivation."

The evil police were very angry. They were ready to make their last move. Hu Ping led the evil police and asked all Dafa practitioners in the "strict administration" team to get together in the hallway. We were ordered to stand on both sides of hallway. She threatened us, "If you keep carrying out hunger strikes, we will not treat you in a polite way. Think twice about it when you go back."

On the twelfth morning of the hunger strike, the evil police in the team and a dozen male criminals locked us in separate rooms. We were all handcuffed onto the bed and had to listen the broadcast of articles that slandered Dafa. I was beyond the limits of forbearance. I hit the iron bed hard with the handcuffs and shouted, "Don't slander Dafa! Don't slander our Master!" The entire hallway echoed with the clashing sound of handcuffs against the iron bed. And fellow practitioners shouted, "Don't slander Dafa! We don't want to listen! Don't make up rumors!" At that time, deputy team leader Gao Jie broke into my room and slapped my face. I shouted loudly, "Gao Jie, How dare you hit me? For what?" Gong Chunbo came in the room too. She covered my mouth and pushed my body in order to prevent me from shouting. Gao Jie took a roll of adhesive tape and was ready to seal my mouth. At this time, He Qiang also came in with rope. He came straight towards me, tied me up and tightened the rope very tight. I shouted to Gao Jie, "I know why you hit me! You are competing for power with other police officers and want to vent your anger on me. You are out for revenge!" He Qiang stopped immediately after hearing this. He turned around and left the room, without saying a single word. After a while, Xie Ying came in and untied me. When Gao Jie saw this, she burst into tears. She didn't want to leave when Gong Chunbo persuaded her to go have dinner. She sat on one side of my bed and said that she wanted to talk with me. She cried very badly. When others went out for dinner, she said she was wrong. She had never been like this. This is the very first time for her. She will remember forever and never let it happen again. When I saw this, I said, "Don't cry! It is very good that you learned the lesson. My attitude was not good, either. I won't take it to heart that you hit me." I continued, "I was able to kick you out of the team because you hit me. However, I don't want you to resent Dafa because of this. If so, you are hopeless. In fact, you know what kind of people Dafa practitioners are. You know that all of us are innocent." She said she knew that and she already found it out from Dafa practitioners. At this time, Gong Chunbo came in. I told her, "Let your team leader Gao eat her meal." After hearing this, Gong turned around and went out of the room without a single word. After Gao Jie was gone, Gong came back to me and asked, "I saw everything. Why did you apologize to her?" I said, "I don't want her to resent Dafa because of this."

March 21, 2002

(To be continued)