| Table of Contents:
"Why not Let Popo Know?" "She
would Cry, Sadly Cry"
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| Ms. Luo Zhixiang |
Ms. Luo Zhixiang's daughter, Kaixin.
When Kaixin misses
Mom, she kisses her photo. |
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| Kaixin as a baby with her grandfather |
A corner of the room where Kaixin
lives |
Huang Ying, born on May 18, 2001,
is the daughter of Ms. Luo Zhixiang and Mr. Huang Guohua, both
Falun Gong practitioners.
Ying last saw her mother in August 2001.
Ms. Luo, with her husband jailed and police constantly shadowing her, had to
leave Ying in the care of her grandma Nainai, the mother of Mr. Huang.
In the end, Ms. Luo did not escape the
deadly persecution. On December 5, 2002, Nainai took Ying to the city of
Guangzhou to see her mother’s body for the last time.
Family and friends had withheld the news
of Ms. Luo’s death from grandma Popo - Ms. Luo’s mother, who lives in the city
of Haikou - for fear that she was too frail to bear the shock. No one thought of
explaining the delicate situation to Ying, merely one and a half years old at
the time, but she surprised everyone.
When Popo asked: "Where is mother?" Ying
answered sincerely: "Mama is working in Guangzhou."
When Popo was not around and other people
asked: "Where is mother?" Ying always answered: "Mama was killed by bad people!"
"Why not let Popo know?" "She would cry, sadly cry."
Maybe that was just coincidence; the girl
may be too young to understand it at all.
One day, at another practitioner’s home,
Ying saw a booklet, "Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Guangzhou." An adult
turned to a page and asked Ying whose photo was there. Ying answered calmly:
"This is mama," and then went aside to play. The adults at the room looked at
each other and felt relieved; it was better for Ying not to understand death and
not be hurt.
They were wrong. After the adults went
into another room, Ying picked up the booklet, turned to the page with her
mother’s photograph, and let tears silently stream down her cheeks.
When the adults saw this, they all cried.
This little girl, one and a half years old, already knew to be considerate of
others.
Perhaps you are curious how this lovely
girl has come to be this way.
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Ms. Luo Zhixiang, born on October
6, 1973, in the city of Kaikou, was an engineer of the Guangdong Agriculture and
Construction Industry Corporation. She began to practice Falun Gong in 1997, and
was known as a kind and hard-working person. In April 1999, Ms. Luo met Mr.
Huang and fell in love.
July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin launched the
persecution against Falun Gong. The young lovers went to Beijing together to
appeal to the central government to stop the persecution, and both were
arrested. Mr. Huang was detained for one month, and Ms. Luo was fired by her
company.
In April 2000, the young couple married.
Half a year later, on the night of October 29, 2000, Mr. Huang was arrested for
passing out flyers exposing the persecution and was savagely beaten. After 135
days of detention, Mr. Huang was sentenced to two years of forced labor on March
15, 2001.
At the time of Mr. Huang’s arrest, Ms. Luo
was already pregnant. On May 18, 2001, she gave birth to Huang Ying, and gave
her the nickname "Kaixin," or "Happy" in Chinese. The local "610 Office"
shadowed her all the time, threatening to kidnap her to a brainwashing class. To
escape the persecution, Ms. Luo left Ying with Nainai and went into hiding. The
local "610 Office" posted a bounty of 30,000 Chinese Yuan for Ms. Luo’s arrest.
Mr. Huang was released on December 30,
2001, and found his wife in May 2002. The couple had been married for two years,
but separated for one and a half years. Their daughter was already one year old,
but had not yet seen her father. How much they wanted to be united with their
daughter, and live a peaceful life.
The police, however, tracked them down. On
November 20, 2002, at 1 p.m., the police broke into their apartment and took the
couple away. That night, they were locked into two iron cages. At that time, Ms.
Luo was three months pregnant with a second child.
To protest the arbitrary detention and the
ill treatment, they went on a hunger strike, and both suffered force-feeding.
Mr. Huang recalled: "[The police] forced a
rubber tube into my nose, while five others pinned down my head and four limbs.
When they finished, they pulled out the tube, and it was covered with my blood.
They force-fed us every other day, me in the morning and my wife in the
afternoon."
On November 28, 2002, the police told Mr.
Huang that because his wife was pregnant, she would be released. Mr. Huang never
saw her again.
The police deceived Mr. Huang, and handed
Ms. Luo to the local "610 Office." The "610 Office" then sent Ms. Luo to a
brainwashing class. On November 29, 2002, the authorities sent her to a
hospital. Two days later, grandma Nainai was notified that Ms. Luo was on the
verge of death. Nainai and Ying arrived in Guangzhou City on December 5, but Ms.
Luo was already dead. She had passed away, along with her unborn child, at age
29.
The authorities claimed that Ms. Luo had
committed suicide by jumping from a building. Before her death, she had been on
a hunger strike for eleven days, and was even too weak to walk. There were also
three persons assigned to monitor her at all times; it would have been
impossible for her to find a chance to jump from a building. An autopsy showed
that no bones were broken and that the cause of death was brain damage. For this
reason, Ms. Luo’s family demanded an explanation, but the authorities refused.
The authorities informed Mr. Huang of his
wife’s death on April 2, 2003, four months after the fact. He was released on
December 16, 2003. The local "610 Office," however, continued to follow him. In
July 2004, details of Ms. Luo’s death were reported overseas. Upon learning
this, the local "610 Office" wanted to arrest Mr. Huang again. To escape further
persecution, he left China and took refuge in Thailand. He is now applying for
United Nations refugee status.
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Ever since Mr. Huang left Ying, the little
girl tells grandma Nainai that she misses her father. She also kisses her
mother’s photo often and tells Nainai, "I saw Mom. She is so beautiful. Mom
comes to see me."
Ying’s mother gave her the nickname
"Happy." Can she be really happy? Will anyone who has read this story help her
to reunite with her father?
The persecution of Falun Gong has taken
Ying’s mother away from her and forced her and her father apart. There are many
other children like little Ying. Will we ever find out just how many?
A Young Mother and Her
Eight-Month-Old Son Tortured to Death in Tuanhe Labor
Camp
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| Ms. Wang Lixuan and her son, Meng
Hao |
Ms. Wang Lixuan lived in Nangou
Village, Qixiasikou Town of Yantai City, Shandong Province. Since July 20, 1999,
she went to Beijing 8 times to appeal to the government to stop the persecution
of Falun Gong. On October 21, 2000, on the way to Beijing she and her
8-month-old son, Meng Hao, were arrested by officials from Shandong
government's liaison office in Beijing. They were detained at Tuanhe Labor Camp
in Beijing.
On November 7, 2000, Ms. Wang and her son
were tortured to death at the labor camp. When her family received the death
notice and arrived in Beijing, they found the frozen corpses of Ms. Wang and her
son. According to the coroner's exam, her neck and knucklebones were broken, her
skull was sunken and there was a needle stuck in her waist. There were two deep
bruises on her son's ankles. There were two black and blue spots on his head and
blood in his nose. The bruises may have been caused when the guards of the labor
camp shackled little Meng Hao's ankles and hung him upside down.
Family members of Ms. Wang have also been
persecuted. Her father Mr. Wang Guihai, her mother Ms. Li
Xiuxiang, her sister Ms. Wang Lihui, a student in Yantai University,
were sentenced to three years of force labor in the Wangcun Labor Camp in Zibo
City, Shandong Pprovince merely because they practiced Falun Gong. Her younger
brother Mr. Wang Xucao, a student of Jinan Architecture University became
destitute due to the persecution.
Four-Year-Old Child without
His Parents' Care
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| Huhu |
Huhu is a four-year-old boy from
Beijing. His father, Mr. Yu Chao, is a 30-year-old network engineer. His mother,
Ms. Chu Tong, is 32 years old and was a lecturer in the Institute of
Microelectronics at Tsinghua University
On April 25, 2000, Huhu's father, Mr. Yu
Chao, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal to the government to stop persecuting
Falun Gong. Because of this, he was detained for one month and was then
sentenced to one year of forced labor. Later he was allowed to serve the
sentence outside the labor camp.
On October 27, 1999, when Huhu's mother,
Ms. Chu Tong, went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Gong, the police
brutally beat her. They then arrested her and detained her in the No. 7 Section
of the Beijing City Police Department. She was sentenced to one and a half years
in prison without any legal procedure. After her release in the summer of 2001,
she wrote an article exposing the persecution she had received in prison and
published a "solemn declaration" expressing her intention to continue
cultivating Falun Gong. She and her husband, Mr. Yu, were forced to leave their
home with their son Huhu to avoid recapture and further persecution.
The police kept tracking them and even
closely watched the apartment of Huhu's grandparents. The options that the small
family had were limited. In August 2002, the police from National Security
Bureau and Beijing "610 Office" [1] captured Huhu's parents. Huhu has been separated from
his parents and is cared for by a family friend.
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[1] "610 Office": A national agency specifically created for the purpose
of eradicating Falun Gong and to "reforming" practitioners. It has absolute
power over every level of administration in the Communist Party, as well as all
other political and judiciary bodies.
Ten-Year-Old Deprived of
Schooling and Forced into Homelessness
Huang Chunlin, a ten-year-old boy
and resident of Tieling City, Liaoning Province, is now forced to share a life
of homelessness with his mother, Ms. Jin Hongyu. After Ms. Jin went to Beijing
to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong, she was detained
four times by the Xicheng District Police Department in Beijing and the Yinzhou
District Police Department in Tieling City. Ms. Jin was sentenced to one year of
forced labor and then asked to pay a "fine" of 5,000 Yuan to be allowed to serve
her term outside the camp. In 1999, when Chunlin was six, his mother, aunt, and
grandmother were all arrested for their practice of Falun Gong, leaving no one
to take care of him, or of his grandfather, who was suffering from a serious
illness. They had a very hard life.
In February 2002, Ma, the Chief of the
Chaihe Street Police Station in the Yingzhou District, Tieling City, along with
several policemen, went to the home of Ms. Jin and her relatives to harass them.
On several occasions they also drove away customers from the restaurant Ms. Jin
owned. Then, without any permit, the police searched and closed the restaurant.
Ms. Jin had to leave home to avoid further persecution, taking Chunlin with her.
From then on they were destitute, and their hard life became even more
difficult.
In May 2002, policemen Yu Dehai, Sun
Lizhong, and Yang Dongsheng from the Yinzhou District Police Department in
Tieling City, found and kidnapped Chunlin. They interrogated him and tried to
find out where his mother was, but he refused to tell them. Sun Lizhong then
picked him up by the throat and threatened, "I won't put you down if you refuse
to talk. Don't think I can't deal with you because you are just a kid. You
better speak, or I'll jail you here." Yu Dehai told Chunlin, "If you tell us
where your mother and aunt are right way, we assure you we won't arrest them.
But if you do not tell us we'll beat them if we capture them." The police didn't
allow the boy to sleep at night. Chunlin was in a state of utter exhaustion
after three days of abuse.
Later, his father's sister came to take
him home to live with her. She registered him for school, but policemen Sun
Lizhong and Yang Dongsheng continued to persecute him. They went to the school
and followed him home every day. Meanwhile, they tapped his aunt's telephone.
Eventually the school, under pressure from the police, refused to let Chunlin
come to class. Being unable to bear the pressure, however, his aunt became ill
and other relatives dared not take him in. Huang Chunlin is now with his mother,
and they are both homeless and destitute.
Have I Lost Mom
Too?
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Left photo: Zou Rongfa, Right photo:
Rongfa's father
(Zou Songtao) and mother (Zhang Yunhe) |
Zou Rongfa (female) was born in
November 1999. At that time, her father, Zou Songtao, was held in a detention
center because he had gone to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop
persecuting Falun Gong. Mr. Zou was not released until the end of December 1999.
He had been in and out of jail many times because he was a Falun Gong
practitioner.
The director of the Taixi Police Station,
Gong Guoquan, once handcuffed Mr. Zou to an iron chair. The director beat him
with the sole of his shoe, causing his head to bleed and swell to twice its
size-beyond the point of recognition. He was unconscious for more than 20
minutes.
In July of 2000, Mr. Zou was sent to the
Qingdao City Forced Labor Camp. Later, at the end of September 2000, he was
transferred to the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City. On the morning of
November 3, 2000, policemen Zheng Wanxin, Shao Zhenghua, and others took Mr. Zou
into an interrogation room, shocked him with electric batons, and killed him
within two hours. Rongfa lost her father.
After the death of Mr. Zou, the police
kept harassing and closely watching Rongfa's mother, Zhang Yunhe. In February
2002, the police arrested Ms. Zhang and detained her at the Dashan Detention
Center, Qingdao City. The police refused to release any information about her to
her family. Zou Rongfa thus was separated from her mother.
Rongfa had to stay with her grandmother,
who was over 60 years old. However, her grandmother became ill and died in
August 2001, after enduring the pain of losing her son-in-law and being
separated from her daughter.
Rongfa has lost her father, her mother,
and her grandmother, the three people she loved the most. Whenever she misses
her family, she steps up on a little stool, reaches up and kisses her Daddy's
box of ashes.
Statement from Chen Ying's
Mother
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| Chen Ying |
On August 19, 1999, CCTV broadcast a
report about Chen Ying, a first-year female student at Shuren High School
in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. The report stated that Chen Ying, after
attempting suicide a few times, had died from jumping off a train. This report
did not tell the true story.
Chen Ying had practiced Falun Gong since
May 1996. She was healthy both physically and mentally. She was an intelligent
student with an excellent character and was always willing to help others. At
school, she was vice-president of her class and active in extracurricular
activities. She was an honor student because of her excellence in academics,
sports, and morality, and had received many awards. Her teachers and classmates
also spoke highly of her. At home, she was a good helper to her mother and her
neighbors were quite fond of her.
On July 22, 1999, CCTV announced the ban
on Falun Gong. That evening, Chen Ying went to Beijing to appeal for the right
to practice Falun Gong. On July 29, a relative found her at Tiananmen Square in
Beijing and took her back to Jiamusi City by train. When the train stopped at
Qinhuangdao City, Chen Ying left when her relatives stopped at a store. The
relative contacted the Qinhuangdao Railway Station for help, but they were
unable to find her. Chen Ying was later arrested in Beijing and put on a train
with a train crew officer assigned to watch her. During a two-hour break at a
station, Chen Ying escaped while left unattended. On August 2, Chen Ying was
arrested in Beijing again and sent to Jiamusi City's Liaison Office in Beijing;
however, she managed to escape the next day.
On August 4, Chen Ying's father, her
school principal, and a school security officer arrived in Beijing to take her
home. They searched for her for a week but could not find her. A person in
charge of the Liaison Office promised to inform Chen Ying's family members and
the school principal as soon as she was found. On August 15, Chen Ying was again
arrested in Beijing, but no one notified either the school or her family
members. On August 16, Chen Ying was escorted back towards Jiamusi City. On the
way to Jiamusi City, at around 2:34 p.m., Chen Ying went to the washroom and
jumped off the train from the washroom window. The train ran about another 10 km
before it fully stopped. The head of the train crew and Officer Li rushed to
find Chen Ying and sent her to the Fengrun Hospital in Fengrun City.
At about 5:00 p.m. on August 16, one
police officer took me from my workplace to a police station. I was told that I
would not be allowed to see my daughter if I still practiced Falun Gong. Because
I wanted to see my daughter, I lied and told them that I no longer practiced
Falun Gong. They did not tell me that my daughter was already dead. When we
arrived at the Fengrun Hotel in Fengrun City after 9:00 p.m. on August 17,
Officer Li told us that they had discontinued her oxygen supply on the evening
of August 16 when she could not be revived. They had then sent her body to the
Fengrun Crematory for freezing.
On August 18, in order to see my
daughter's body, I was forced to lie again, on a TV interview conducted by the
Tianjin TV station on behalf of CCTV, by saying that I had completely stopped
practicing Falun Gong. Then, on the same day, I was accompanied by police
officers and taken to the crematorium to see my daughter's body. However, I was
not allowed to see the cremation, and was forced to leave Fengrun City after
2:00 p.m.
Now, I must tell the truth. What I said to
the police and media reporters were all lies, including the story that was
published in the Sanjiang Evening Newspaper.
On March 29, 2000, I went to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong as my daughter had done before. I was arrested on the
train from Shenyang City to Beijing and sent to a detention center. On April 3,
2000, I was escorted back to Jiamusi City by staff from both my workplace and
the police station. I was detained at a detention center for 47 days.
Teenager Force-Fed a Harmful
Drug and Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison
Li Mingwei (male) was a middle
school student at the Experimental Middle School, Anqiu City, Shandong Province.
One morning in early March 2001, while Li
Mingwei was still sleeping, eight city officials and policemen broke into his
home and arrested him and his mother, leaving his 12-year-old sister home alone.
They were detained in Anqiu City. The Anqiu City official, Song Baojie, had
allocated two houses there for the purpose of detaining and brainwashing Falun
Gong practitioners.
Li Mingwei started a hunger strike to
protest the illegal detention. Five days later he was sent back to school, where
he was detained in a small room. Under orders from Wei, an Anqiu City official,
and as punishment, the school sent him to the Anqiu City People's Hospital for
force-feeding. They injected him with an unknown drug that made his whole body
numb. Then they tried to insert a tube into his nose and down to his stomach,
but failed because the tube was too thick. Next, they used some equipment to
force open his mouth so they could insert the tube into his stomach. His mouth
bled profusely due to this torture.
The school officials tried to force Li
Mingwei to write a statement saying that he would not appeal to the government
to stop persecuting Falun Gong. They told him that if he refused to write it,
they would lock him up and not allow him to go back to class. A teacher closely
watched him during the day while two students watched him at night. He was
forced to watch brainwashing materials that defamed Falun Gong.
In July 2001, Li Mingwei went to Beijing
again to appeal to the government to stop the persecution. He was arrested and
sent back to school, where he was detained for the whole summer. Li Mingwei
started another hunger strike and was again released.
One day, he was called from his class to
the school office. Several teachers surrounded him and attacked him verbally.
One of the school directors, Jiang Dongpo, slapped him on his face more than ten
times.
To avoid further persecution, he had to
leave home and school, wandering about so that he could not be located. The
latest information about Li Mingwei revealed that the police found and detained
him in a forced brainwashing center in Anqiu City. He was later sentenced to
seven years in prison.
Mother Tortured to Death,
Father Missing, Child Placed in Orphanage
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| Wang Xiaodong, a 34-year- old middle school teacher was
tortured to death |
Liu Xifeng, Ms. Wang's husband, is missing |
Their son, Liu Xiang, is 11 years old and currently living
at the Shenzhen Orphanage |
Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Liu
Xifeng and Ms. Wang Xiaodong were originally from northeastern China.
They were both teachers at Shenzhen Nantou Middle School, and they had a son
named Liu Xiang, who is now 11 years old.
After the persecution of Falun Gong
started on July 20, 1999, Mr. Liu went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the
injustice thrust upon Falun Gong practitioners. In order to avoid the police who
were attempting to stop practitioners from appealing, he walked to Beijing,
which took him 45 days. He suffered much from the trip. His feet became swollen
from walking and he could not wear shoes.
In 2000, police detained Mr. Liu's wife,
Ms. Wang, and sentenced her to two years in a forced labor camp for appealing
for Falun Gong in Beijing. She underwent extreme torture in the Nanshan
Detention Center and later in the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp. She suffered a
mental breakdown from the torture and was released for treatment. After her
release, she resumed practicing Falun Gong and healed quickly.
The couple was fired from their school
because of their appeals. To avoid harassment from police, they went into
hiding. Their son's education, therefore, was greatly disrupted.
Around January 2002, Mr. Liu and fellow
practitioners fell into a trap set by the Chinese National Security Bureau. The
police arrested them in Buji, Shenzhen. The section chief of Shenzhen National
Safety Bureau, Xiao Shizhong, ordered police to torture Mr. Liu. He was later
brought to Shenzhen City Armed Police Hospital (also known as Guangdong Province
Border Patrol Armed Police Hospital), which is the designated medical
institution for the Shenzhen "610 Office." For more than one year, dozens of
Falun Gong practitioners who had been on hunger strikes to protest the
persecution were kidnapped and taken to this place, where they were forcibly
given injections and force-fed.
At around noon on March 22, 2002, Mr. Liu,
who was on hunger strike, was taken to room 301 of the first section of the
Internal Medicine Department to be force-fed. The section chief, Xiao Shizhong,
shouted in the corridor, "Let's puncture this pig to death. Let's do a human
body experiment. Whoever wants to learn can come!" Thus, the tube insertion was
performed by security guards Zhang and Tang Jianfeng, who were non-medical
personnel, from Shenzhen City Longgang Security Firm. The improper procedures
caused Mr. Liu to have trouble breathing; his whole body twitched and his life
appeared to be in danger. As a result, the officers put him on a cardiac monitor
for emergency treatment. A doctor on duty, Dr. Liu (female, over 40 years old),
prescribed an intravenous drip in each arm. At this critical moment, rather than
allowing a trained nurse to administer the intravenous infusions, security
guards Zhang and Tang Jianfeng insisted on learning to insert the needle. Head
nurse Liu Min approved and instructed on-duty nurse Geng Jie to teach them how
to do the insertion. These two security guards punctured Mr. Liu's hands and
arms over twenty times, breaking blood vessels in many places. This went on for
more than ten minutes. Mr. Liu started to show severe, irregular heartbeats and
difficulty breathing, and his whole body went into seizure.
Mr. Liu suffered another round of torture
at about 1:30 p.m. on March 30, 2002, in room 329 of the Internal Medicine
Department. The police force-fed him high-proof alcohol through a nasal tube
twice in order to torture him. He had not been eating or drinking for 16 days.
Police officer Wang Wei took out four sets of handcuffs, cuffed Mr. Liu's hands
and feet to a bed, and injected a full syringe of alcohol into the nasal feeding
tube. Later, security guard Song Shichao and another person from the Longgang
Security Firm injected twice the amount of alcohol they had forced into him the
first time. In less than one hour, they inserted the tube through his nose twice
and injected alcohol twice. After the second time, the tube was covered with
blood when they pulled it out.
Mr. Liu successfully walked out of the
hospital and regained his freedom when the prison guards who monitored him fell
asleep.
On September 22, 2002, Mr. Liu and his
wife, Ms. Wang, were arrested again.
Currently, no one knows the whereabouts of
Mr. Liu. The police tortured Ms. Wang to death after she was on hunger strike
for four months in the Shenzhen Nanshan Detention Center. It is said that the
police sent their 11-year-old son to the Shenzhen Orphanage.
High School Student Forced to
Leave Home to Avoid Torture
I am a 17-year-old high school student. In
June 2001, before an important examination at school, my teachers and the school
authorities called me into their offices several times to tell me not to give
true answers to the Falun Gong questions in the examination. However I did not
want to lie, so I wrote down the truth about Falun Gong for the questions on the
examination. The city education administrator, Yao, and a teacher, Zheng, twice
threatened me for this and wanted to send me to a forced labor camp.
When they came to my house, I managed to
escape and thus avoid being captured and tortured. The authorities and the
policemen of Sanjie Town threatened my parents. They told my parents that if
they did not turn me in, they would arrest my parents and confiscate our land.
The authorities, Dong Xiquan and Wang Jiubing, also beat my parents. On
September 3, 2001, to prevent further torture, my parents left home. We are all
wandering on the streets. I have not been able to attend school since we became
homeless. |
