A Chinese Policeman from Dalian City Learns The Truth

There was once a lonely old woman whose home was raided and her life's savings robbed. How would she survive in the future? Witnessing the confused look on her face, I started to question myself: "Are you helping or hurting people? Are you really the people's policeman or a robber and a bandit?"

I am a police officer at the Developing District Branch of the Dalian City Police Department in Liaoning Province. The police are supposed to uphold justice as well as safeguard the living and working environment of the people. Nevertheless, what I have been seeing is hardly that. Judging from personal experience, I no longer feel I am an upholder of justice who is trusted by the masses. On the contrary, I have become a hatchet man of former Chinese President and dictator Jiang Zemin and his regime. In particular, I feel like I have become one of the bandits after Jiang's regime launched the suppression of Falun Gong. Ever since the first time I personally interacted with Falun Dafa practitioners, I have realised that policemen nowadays are not only bandits, but also criminals who have been killing good-hearted people. I was astonished to finally understand that if I continued to persecute Falun Gong practitioners I would reach nothing but a dead end.

Since the persecution of Falun Dafa began on the 20th of July, 1999, authorities of the "6-10 Office" [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.] in the Developing District of Dalian City have committed numerous crimes against Falun Dafa practitioners. In particular, police officers have committed monstrous crimes under the leadership of Liu Wei, who is the second head of the Political, Economic, and Security Office of the Developing District's Police Department. These officers have brutally beaten, force-fed, shocked with electric batons, and tortured Dafa practitioners. Zhao Qian, Liu Wei, Sun Deshun, and Liu Dong are all directly accountable for the deaths of Li Zhongmin, Chen Yong and other Dafa practitioners. The following incident triggered me to reflect on my behaviours as a police officer.

At 4 p.m. on January 4, 2002, Under the directive of Sun Deshun, who is the Director of the "6-10 Office" of the Developing District of Dalian City, and Liu Wei, twenty anti-riot police vehicles were dispatched to encircle a house at 4 Liaoning Street located in the Developing District of Dalian City. The armed policemen were spread out at ten meter intervals, surrounding the house. Once all the officers were in place, Liu Wei and Sun Deshun led them to break down the door. As soon as the door was broken down, the police then entered in search of "evidence." Some searched through suitcases, while others went looked elsewhere, etc. They searched the whole house.

While the many officers were searching for "evidence," they also greedily stuffed things into their pockets. Witnessing the bandit-like raiding, I became disgusted and decided to stand aside and not join in.

They arrested four people, including two young men who originally came from Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, and two other elderly women. Because the two young men were the main targets, Liu Wei personally instructed the officers to beat them up. After the beating, their appearance was too horrible to look at. One of the arrested women was Ms. Yu, the owner of the house, while the other was Wang Xiaozhi (who doesn't practice Falun Gong), the younger sister of the owner. Ms. Wang came from Hainan Province so as to visit her sister to get a private loan.

The officers abducted these four people and locked them up in the Harbin Road Police Station of the Developing District of Dalian City. The two young men who were Falun Gong practitioners were later escorted back to Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province for further imprisonment. In addition, Liu Wei also ordered the police to send the owner's sister, Wang Xiaozhi, to be imprisoned for twenty-eight days in the Yaojia Detention Centre of Dalian City, despite her non-practitioner status. After being released from the detention centre, Ms. Wang demanded that the nearly thirty thousand yuan in cash that the officers claimed that they would temporarily hold for Ms. Yu be returned to her. Liu Wei rudely rejected her demand and threatened her, saying that she would be imprisoned again if she kept asking for the money back. Intimidated by this, the peasant woman not only stopped asking for the thirty-thousand yuan that she borrowed from her sister, but dared not ask for her own six hundred yuan that the officers took from her while she was body-searched. I was told that she was at that point penniless and returned to Hainan Province alone.

Because the elderly Ms. Yu, the owner of the house, was a Falun Gong practitioner and she had a "Falun Dafa is Good" banner in her home, the authorities detained her for four days from the afternoon of January 4, 2004 until 9 p.m. on the 7th of January.

According to the Chinese Constitution, police have to find evidence and make a decision within twenty-four hours of detention. Without any evidence, police must release the detained, regardless. Otherwise, the officers who do this will have committed a crime themselves.

To cover up their crimes, Liu Wei forced the elderly Ms. Yu to sign a document that changed the arrest date from January 4th to January 7th. Finally they sent her to the Yaojia Detention Centre of Dalian City without any "evidence" (as the woman did not publicly post any posters or go out to spread the truth about Falun Gong). Later the authorities sentenced her to three years in a forced labour camp. They sent her to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.

This is hardly acceptable or comprehensible to anybody. Simply because of her belief, this seventy-year-old innocent lady would have to stay and be tortured in a notorious labour camp for three years, and nobody would know whether her life would be spared or if she would be tortured to death.

Later, the authorities released the elderly woman due to her health condition. She used to be fairly plump, but now she looked like a different person, as she had lost over forty pounds. I felt so sorry for her. I could not imagine just how she spent those months in the Masanjia Labour Camp. I started to blame myself.

Our police station had been taking care of Ms. Yu's personal belongings, including her large sum of cash, which she later asked Liu Wei to return to her. But Liu refused to return any of it to her. Without her life's savings and with a house that had been raided, how can she survive the rest of her life? "Am I helping people or hurting them? Am I the people's guardian or am I a robber and bandit?" I asked myself.

Ever since I had my first contact with Falun Gong practitioners through my job, I have learned a lot about Falun Dafa. I began to ponder, "Why was Falun Gong so welcomed across the country before the suppression? Why had I never heard of anything like suicides or self-immolation back then, while so many bad things began showing up after July of 1999?" Today Falun Gong is persecuted only in China, but it has received thousands of proclamations and awards around the world. There is only one answer to this. Jiang Zemin has been lying to people, and he used his power and the national propaganda machine to lie to all the Chinese people.

Later on I read many Falun Dafa books and began to understand many things. I regret what I did before and want to wholeheartedly warn my fellow police officers to please put down those electric batons you have raised, carefully read the Falun Dafa books, and stop committing any further bad deeds. Otherwise, you might as well be digging your own graves. While Jiang does not leave any room of repentance for himself, we must do so. For the sake of our families and ourselves, please stop the crimes! Given the ever-increasing natural and man-made calamities within our police population, please think it over before committing any bad deeds!

I would like to use this opportunity on Clearwisdom.net to express my highest respects. Teacher Li [Respectfully referring to the founder of Falun Gong, Mr Li Hongzhi], I swear that I will not do anything bad to Falun Dafa again, regardless of the bad deeds I have committed before. Whether you recognise me or not, I take myself as your disciple from the bottom of my heart. I will read your books and strive to be a good person.