Reenactment of Torture Methods at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp - Part 6 (Photos)

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Part 2: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200603/32048.html
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Part 4: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200603/32092.html
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Torture Method 17: Force-feeding Through the Nose

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A practitioner who has been on a hunger strike for a long time has his arms and legs cuffed to the four corners of a metal bed. The guards insert one end of a rubber tube into the practitioner's nose and down his throat to his stomach. The guards push corn porridge and rotten vegetable soup from the other end of the tube into the practitioner's stomach. They are very rough, and the tube often breaks the skin in or punctures the practitioner's nose, throat, and/or stomach. The tube is often covered in blood. Some practitioners whose stomachs are punctured suffer from long-term stomach bleeding. Their stomaches are shrunk after long-term hunger striking, and after suddenly being fed more than one quart of corn porridge and water, their stomachs are inflated and they experience tremendous pain. Some practitioners then become incontinent or have to urinate frequently, as much as fifteen times per hour. After long-term force-feeding, the practitioners develop anorexia, nausea, and difficulty swallowing. Some guards intentionally leave the tube inside the practitioners' stomachs. One end of the tube gets stuck to the practitioner's face by the food remnants, and the other end of the tube rots inside the practitioner's stomach. The guards laugh at the practitioner and say, "Look, you grew a big nose and now you look like an elephant."

Torture Method 18: Stripped Naked, Cuffed to the Death Bed¹ and Force-fed Through the Nose

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A practitioner holding a long-term hunger strike is stripped naked and has his arms and legs cuffed to the four corners of a metal bed with only a quilt covering his body. His wrists and ankles have wounds from the handcuffs. He is then force-fed through the nose. This is very devastating as it destroys the practitioner's dignity while depriving him of physical freedom. Practitioner Ms. Zhou Yuzhi from Benxi, who is in her 40s, was dragged to the office by guards Zhang Xiurong, Zhou Qian, Qi Fuying, Zhang He, Guan Lin and others. She was cuffed to the Death Bed and force-fed. The brutal feeding left her rolling in pain. She lost her sense of smell and taste after the feeding, and she was extremely weak. Several months later, she was sent to the Strictly Controlled Group to be further persecuted. Practitioner Ms. Li Ping from Dalian City was cuffed to the bed by guard Wang Xiuju and collaborators², who stripped off her clothes and force-fed her for a long time. Four months later when she was skin and bones, she was secretly sent away.

Torture Method 19: Golden Dragon in the Sea

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The practitioner is placed on the bed face down with his hands cuffed behind his back. He is positioned so that his upper body extends beyond the edge of the bed. Several collaborators hold down his legs and hit his head and back with the soles of their shoes and broomsticks. After a while, the practitioner feels as if his back is broken. The collaborators grab his hair and beat him if he even slightly lowers his head due to exhaustion.

Torture Method 20: Freezing

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Female practitioners' upper bodies are stripped naked and they are left in jogging bottoms. They are pinned down in the snow from morning until late at night. They are not allowed to go into the room. Their hands and feet turn black from the cold.

Postscript:

There are nearly one hundred methods of torture used on Falun Gong practitioners at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Aside from the twenty listed above, we will continue to publish descriptions of other forms of torture. We want to call on all practitioners who have ever been illegally detained at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp: Pick up your pen and write down your own experiences. Let's continue to expose the crimes at Masanjia Labour Camp, let the world's people see the bloodthirsty nature of the Chinese Communist Party, and let all people of conscience unite to condemn this inhumane persecution that has lasted nearly seven years.

Aside from extreme torture methods, labour camp authorities also brutalise the practitioners with horrible food. Illegally detained practitioners are given black, hardened and rancid corn cakes, turnips and salted vegetables, and cabbage soup. The occasional pork found in the vegetables comes from discarded parts from the guards' cafeteria. It is said that the corn flour used to make corn cakes contain lots of salvolatile, and therefore they are very bitter. After eating the cakes, many people have diarrhoea and they swell up. The practitioners jokingly call the cakes "dog repellent," meaning that even dogs would not eat the cakes.

Up until the end of 2003, labour camp authorities gathered determined practitioners and tortured them many times. They call it "battle against the fort."

On December 9th, 2002, the Liaoning Province government organised a so-called "Brainwashing Assistance Group" consisting of 610 Office³ agents, police officers and collaborators from different cities. They sent the Assistance Group to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp to brutally persecute determined practitioners. They played Dafa-slandering videos from morning to night for more than a month to brainwash the practitioners. The labour camp also forced practitioners to do work that required direct contact with poisonous chemical compounds, using inadequate safety measures. Many practitioners experienced headaches, dizziness, vomiting, allergies, eye pain, skin ulcerations, nosebleeds, and heartbeat irregularities.

During "battle against the fort," all work inside the labour camp was halted, and no one from the outside was allowed to enter the camp. The guards took steadfast practitioners to the Comprehensive Building to torture them in groups. They used various cruel means including long-term sleep deprivation, the tiger bench⁴, electric shock, beatings, kicking, forced bowing with hands straight up behind one's body, tie-ups and hang-ups, freezing, and other means. They also forced the practitioners to eat and sleep inside the toilet. The Brainwashing Assistance Group left the labour camp on December 27th, 2002, but the "battle against the fort" continued until March 2003.

During the "battle," many practitioners were disabled from torture and many suffered mental collapse. Some passed away several days after they were sent home. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has boasted that this notorious labour camp, where good people are fanatically persecuted, is a national model, and has promoted nationwide their base tips on persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

In mid-October 2003, the labour camp started another round of "battle against the fort." In November 2003, the Liaoning Province government organised a meeting in the conference room at Masanjia Labour Camp, and 610 Office agents and police officers from different cities attended. On December 5th, the Brainwashing Assistance Group again entered the camp. They left in late December. Falun Gong practitioners were again savagely abused.

The devastating crimes perpetrated at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp against Falun Gong practitioners during the past seven years is beyond words, yet a special magazine published by the CCP calls it "a special school that purifies the heart." Any practitioner who has survived Masanjia Forced Labour Camp could write a book with stories of tears and blood. Under direct instruction from Su Jing, head of the labour camp, and Shao Li, deputy head, Falun Gong practitioners who refused to give up their belief endured unimaginable suffering through nearly one hundred tortures. These shocking tortures are still being used at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.

Note

1. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

2. "Collaborators": Former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture. They are then made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners.

3. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

4. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/3/5/122087.html