People Witness Police Violence

[Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province]

On November 29, 2001, I went to the market in the town of Mengyang in Pengzhou City. In the seed store of the grocery section, I found about ten people talking about cultivation practice. They said something about how Falun Gong teaches people to be good, how you look within yourself to find the attachment and eliminate it so as to continually improve. I was attracted to their conversation and felt that they were very reasonable.

Just then a group of people from government offices and the police station came in, some of whom I knew. They just closed the door and started to beat those people. They finally opened the door after they felt they had beaten them enough. They tied the owner and other people in the store together with rope, including elderly people in their 60's. They took them to the town government building, closed the door and gave them another beating. Even the party secretary of the town, Zheng Guihua, participated in the beating. Afterwards I saw that the store owner's eyes were bruised. A woman in her 40's was beaten so badly that she lost control of her bowels. None of them escaped the beating. It was said that they were going to be fined in addition to the beating. Many people who saw what happened could not hold back their tears, but no one dared to say anything. At heart we all know that Falun Gong practitioners are good people.

Why did the authorities from the government and the police treat good people in this way? We all know that the officials are corrupt. They extort money from the people and use it to eat lavish meals, visit prostitutes, and gamble. The local authorities take Falun Gong practitioners as easy to bully, often harassing them on holidays. During the past two years, we have learned and witnessed much of the unjust treatment of Falun Gong practitioners. The authorities arrest and beat them at will, fine them heavily, and even parade them through the streets as if they were convicts. Meanwhile, the Falun Gong practitioners have truly followed the principles of "Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance," practising "not returning the beating when beaten, not swearing back when sworn at." The practitioners are really good, just like what is said on their flyers, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is the righteous way!" Why are all these good people being so severely persecuted?

Anyone with a good conscience will be against the evil conduct. We believe that "good will be rewarded with good, and the evil will receive retribution." When justice is restored, we are witnesses of the crimes conducted by the local police and authorities.

Signed, a person with a conscience who knows the facts.

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/17/16874.html