Police Thugs Incite Teachers and Government Staff to Create Terror in Taoxu Town

[Mengyin County, Shandong Province]

On October 23rd 2001 at 8am, the evil forces of Taoxu Town had an urgent meeting in the conference room on the 4th floor of the town hall. In the meeting, the evil forces decided to launch an illegal mass arrest of practitioners. The mass arrest was led by Party General Secretary Liu Zhimin, and organized by thug Bao Zitang. They arranged for over 100 people to ransack all of the practitioners' houses. This group was made up of over 80 teachers and some government staff. They rampantly broke doors and locks. They turned cabinets upside down in their quest for cash and certificates of deposit. All the money they found was taken away immediately without receipts. If they found a Dafa book or a truth flyer, they would take away the practitioner or a family member in order to extort more money from them.

Thug Liu Zhimin ordered that the family or practitioner be fined 300 Yuan for each truth flyer, 500 Yuan (500 Yuan is the average monthly salary of an urban worker in China) for each Dafa audiotape. He also threatened the practitioners in order to get them to write "guarantee letters". (Guarantee letters are a written "guarantee" that the practitioner won't practise Falun Gong any more.)

There were two practitioners that were not at home when they did their search. Their wives didn't practise Falun Gong. The bandits didn't find the practitioners so they detained their wives in order to extort money from the family. They claimed that they would not release the wives until the family paid them the money. Otherwise, they would detain the wives for a long term or send them to a brainwashing class. One old lady had been to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Dafa, so the thugs extorted 10,000 Yuan from her. The old lady refused to pay. The thugs went to arrest her two sons (who don't practise Falun Gong). They took them to a detention centre and forced the families to pay money for their release. There are over 60 villages under the administration of Taoxu Town. In one of the villages, the thugs searched for and took cash and certificates of deposit for over 5,000 Yuan.

During 2001, the thugs detained practitioners, ransacked houses, heavily fined, and brutally tortured the practitioners. Many practitioners were "fined" repeatedly. Therefore, they had heavy debt, which caused difficulties in their lives. Some practitioners were brutally tortured because they were firm in their beliefs. They were beaten unconscious several times. The thugs would pour cold water on them to wake them up. They would send any practitioner unable to pay the "fine" to brainwashing class. In Taoxu Town, five practitioners were illegally sent to prison or forced labour camps. This is the terror created by the vicious Liu Zhimin and other thugs.

A source from the local government said that the evil forces will use the excuse of searching for dynamite, detonators, and fuses to launch another mass ransacking and pillaging of people's homes.

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/4/16494.html