Practitioners Display Benevolence In the Face of Brutal Beatings in Tonghua City's Labor Camp

On the night of October 11, 2001, Zhang Ping, the President of the Labor Camp in Tonghua City, led over 10 jail guards to viciously beat six Falun Gong practitioners. He then confined practitioner Gai Yongguang and the other practitioners in a solitary compartment. These officers violated the law.

For a long time, the Labor Camp in Tonghua City has been using criminals to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. There is an unwritten rule that some jail guards and criminals could do whatever they like to practitioners. This includes physical abuse, beating and cursing them, along with stealing the practitioners' personal belongings. All this happened very often. The practitioners have asked the jail guards and labor camp leaders many times for fair treatment, but they were ignored.

On the night of October 11, 2001, practitioner Gai Yongguang asked the labor camp president, Zhang Ping, yet another time, not to persecute the practitioners. In reply, Zhang Ping cursed at him. At that time, there were no ways to submit their requests, so Gai Yongguang declared a hunger strike to protest the treatment by labor camp leaders such as the President Zhang Ping. Showing his ferocity, Zhang Ping cursed Gai Yongguang terribly and ordered all the other jail guards to fiercely beat him. Zhang Ping even shouted, "Beat him to death!" After the other five practitioners in the same cell heard this, they kindly tried to stop the officers' law-violating behavior and were therefore beaten badly also. Even an over 60-year-old man named Song Chuansen could not avoid this disaster. The practitioners lost control of their bowels and became incontinent from the severity of the beating. After that, the bandits cruelly tortured Gai along with the other practitioners for over 40 minutes. They confined three of them in a solitary compartment for no reason. More than 20 practitioners started a hunger strike on the morning of October 12 to protest the persecution. There were five practitioners still on a hunger strike at the end of October.

During the period of the practitioners' hunger strike, Mao Shunde from the Political Department of the labor camp used an electric baton twice to shock the practitioners Bian Haoxiang and Wang Dianren who were on hunger strike.

In the middle of August, Cui Zhiyong from the Administration Department beat up and shocked practitioner Guo Changyu with an electric baton for over 40 minutes. There are countless examples of practitioners being threatened, beaten and cursed at by the criminals.

Even under such evil persecution, the practitioners still clarified the truth to the evil persecutors with their mercy, benevolence, and forbearance as Falun Gong practitioners. They told them the heavenly principle that "Good is rewarded with good and evil is met with evil," and tried to persuade them to stop being controlled and taken advantage of by evil forces to persecute practitioners.

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/16/16845.html