In Memory of Practitioner Liu Xuguo

Mr. Liu Xuguo worked at an electrical repair shop for the Yishan Chemical Industry Company in Zoucheng City, Shandong Province. Ten years ago, he was tortured to death. I was saddened by the loss of a good practitioner.

Liu Xuguo attended Falun Gong lectures in Heze city. When he returned, he and other practitioners actively promoted Falun Gong, and they established group practice sites one after another.

One time, Liu Xuguo and several other practitioners used a classroom to play Falun Gong videos. He and the others went on the streets to promote the Falun Gong lecture videos. Liu Xuguo always arrived early with the TV set and DVD player. Because it was an abandoned classroom, there were no chairs or desks, so Liu Xuguo and the other practitioners moved desks and dozens of long benches from another classroom that was quite far away. After the lecture, they put the furniture back. More and more people came to watch the Falun Gong lecture videos.

Before the nine-day lectures ended, Liu Xuguo established a practice site in that school. Because many new practitioners had joined, there were not enough Falun Gong books for everyone. He then went to other cities to get Falun Gong books. He was truly selfless and responsible.

In order to further promote Falun Gong, Liu Xuguo also organised many conferences; so that practitioners had the opportunity to share their experiences and improve as a whole. In those day, every morning, one could see people practising Falun Gong everywhere, and could hear the beautiful exercise music.

On July 20th, 1999, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong. Liu Xuguo went to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong to the officials in Beijing at the end of October 1999. He was arrested by police officers in Tiananmen Square. Officers from the political and security office of the Zoucheng City Public Security Bureau and Zoucheng City Qianquan police office took him back home. On November 2nd, 1999, he was detained by the Zoucheng Public Security Bureau and subsequently held for a month in the Zoucheng Detention Centre. Meanwhile, his work unit expelled him. At the end of January 2000, agents from the Zoucheng Public Security Bureau deceived Liu Xuguo shortly after he was released from the police station. Without any legal procedure or notification to his family, Liu Xuguo was sentenced to three years in the Jining City Forced Labour Camp.

In the Jining Forced Labour Camp, Liu Xuguo and other practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the maltreatment they were experiencing. However, the prison guards still forced them to do hard labour and carry sand bags to wear them down. On the sixth day of the hunger strike, Liu Xuguo was force-fed. As a result, he ended up with fluid in his lungs from injuries caused during insertion of the feeding tube. On February 4th, his family was notified that Liu Xuguo was in critical condition. When his family arrived at the Jining Medical School Affiliated Hospital, they saw that his lips were blue and he had difficulty talking. At 2:30 p.m. on February 10th, he passed away. He was only 29 years old.

He left behind his father, who was paralysed because of a stroke; his mother, who suffers from cancer; his young wife, and a son who was less than two years old. He also had a younger brother who was still in school.

Not stopping there, the Chinese Communist Party continued to torment Liu's family. The local police officers harassed the family by assigning eight people each day to watch his wife, who is also a practitioner, 24 hours a day. They would sleep on the family's sofa at night. Not long after, his wife was sentenced to two years in the Jinan Forced Labour Camp.

Liu Xuguo's parents passed away after losing their son and living in such a difficult environment. Today, Liu Xuguo's son is 12 years old and lives with his mother.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/3/16/219861.html