State Terrorism Witnessed by a Non-Practitioner

I often receive materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. Today, I would like to tell Minghui Net about something I witnessed in late November of 2001. Two Falun Gong practitioners in our village, Yu Guicai and Zhao Guanglin, went to appeal to the government in Beijing to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. They were arrested and escorted back to the local government by the Beijing police. The local government then sent them to a detention centre.

On November 21, 2001, the town supervisor Li Wenfeng, deputy director Sun Jiangming, and Party secretary Wang Qingxin, together with the director of the local police substation Wang Degang, director of the Armed Department Ye Bentian, and Liu Tiejun, Wang X etc. came to our village in four vehicles. They looked quite fierce in appearance. They imposed a punishment on Yu Guicai, the first of the two Falun Gong practitioners who went to Beijing. They confiscated 700 Yuan cash, two horses, and one carriage. Yu's family members tried to prevent them, however the town governor instructed the thugs he brought along with him to beat them with leather whips. Consequently, Yu Guicai's daughter was knocked to the ground and lost consciousness. A crowd of onlookers silently stifled the fury they were feeling. Some said in private that those officers were no different from the bandits from the past before the liberation.

That night, the group also went to Zhao Guanglin's home in Bawang Village. He is the second of the practitioners who went to Beijing. They confiscated over 1000 jin beans [equal to the annual income of a peasant in China] from him and over 1000 Yuan cash. They also searched his daughter's room, forcibly taking away two walkmans, two tapes, and two notebooks containing her diary.

The reason that I expose all of these happenings here is because Jiang Zemin and his gang have gone too far. He keeps saying that they will run the country according to the law and be advocates for the people. However, the fact is, common people have no channel to lodge a complaint when their property is plundered by the very people who are supposed to protect them. Moreover, the Falun Gong practitioners peacefully appeal to the government only for the right to practise the exercises and to improve their health. Even though Jiang Zemin has been persecuting them for over two years, they have never fought back and never displayed any bad conduct.

As an outsider, I'd like to appeal to the government to make a thorough investigation and solve this problem correctly. Jiang Zemin's regime should run the country according to the law so that we common people are sincerely assured that it is the country and not their own self-interest that they have at heart. Don't lose the support of the people.

What I said is the truth. Come and investigate it in our village if you have any doubt.

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/20/16966.html