(Clearwisdom.net) Shi Xiang, male, 38 years old, Vice Party Secretary of West Village Township from 1999 - 2002, was responsible for persecuting Falun Gong. During his term, he exhausted all means to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. He died in 2003 of liver cancer.

Huo Xiaodong, male, 37 years old, was the Party Secretary of Jiajinkou Village. Since July 20, 1999, he followed Jiang's regime to persecute Falun Dafa and the practitioners. He assigned "monitors" to watch over the practitioners. Many people were intimidated. Huo died of liver cancer in December 2003.

Sun Zhi'an, male, 40 years old, was formerly a bureau chief of Zhanjie Township Police Station. He is cruel and brutal by nature. Since July 1999, he has subjected many practitioners to tortures, burning them with cigarettes, stabbing them with needles, beating them with clubs, using rough hemp rope dipped in water to whip them and forcing police officers to beat them up. Many practitioners have suffered in his hands. On November 19, 1999, when he was whipping practitioner Zhao Songmao, he hit himself with the lash and suffered from the pain for over a month. However, he did not awaken and continued his crimes, abducting practitioners and putting them under house arrest at Zhanjie Qin'an Hostel.

Around July 20, 2000, Sun received retribution again. The car he was riding in lost its hood in a crash. But, he persecuted practitioners even more. Then, he got skin cancer. His skin did not get better, but instead got worse and he was very miserable. In January 2001, he again was involved in taking practitioners into custody to brainwashing sessions, during which he beat up practitioners Liu Qilun nine times in five days. Later, he was transferred out of Zhanjie police station due to some charges against him. Word has it that he has had to spend close to 1000 yuan [an average Chinese urban worker's monthly salary is 500 yuan] to treat his illness, but it is not getting any better.

[Editors' Note: In both Western and Chinese culture, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward actions that are in harmony with this principle, while actions such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.]

2004-2-18