Slave Labour for Falun Gong Practitioners at Baimiao Forced Labour Camp

Falun Dafa practitioners from Zhengzhou and surrounding areas are being unjustly detained in Baimiao Forced Labour Camp. Currently, four Dafa practitioners are being detained there.

The Torture of Falun Dafa Practitioner Xu Xiaoguo

Around the end of February or the beginning of March 2004, Zhengzhou City police illegally took Mr. Xu Xiaoguo to Baimiao Forced Labour Camp. Li Xichuan, a retired guard from the 610 Office who was reappointed to work at the forced labour camp because he had taken an active part in the persecution of Falun Dafa admitted him, although he knew that Xu Xiaoguo's physical condition didn't meet the qualifying criteria for detention.

In the forced labour camp, Xu Xiaoguo refused to give up his beliefs and he firmly requested his release. After his request was refused, he went on a hunger strike to protest. About one week into his hunger strike, the guards tortured him by force-feeding him with a concentrated saline solution. The responsible guards were Song Yanchen, (currently the deputy director of the Education Section) who brutally tortured many Falun Dafa practitioners for personal gain, and Gao, the director for the Prisoner Activities Section.

Song and Gao ordered four criminal inmates on night duty to force-feed him with concentrated saline solution after director Hou encouraged them to use this method and officially sanctioned it. In compliance with Song and Gao's orders, the criminal inmates pinned Xu Xiaoguo to the floor in the office, immobilized him by stepping on his hands and feet, kneeling on his chest, and blindfolding him with an old rag. Then Song used screwdrivers and pliers to pry Xu Xiaoguo's mouth open, pinched his nose to prevent him from breathing, and poured lots of salt into his nose and mouth. He then poured a glass of concentrated saline solution into Xu Xiaoguo's open mouth. In the process, his lungs were also filled with salt water. Xu Xiaoguo's vocal cords and lungs were severely damaged, causing him to cough up yellow phlegm for several months. His voice has also become hoarse.

The director of Squad 3 Lu Shuangfu, who was previously a guard in Squad 1 and persecuted Dafa practitioners even more viciously after he got a promotion, ordered the criminal inmates to persecute Dafa practitioners. Consequently, criminal Wei Wenhui, the leader of the labour team, prevented Xu Xiaoguo from sleeping for four continuous days and nights. On the fourth day, Xu Xiaoguo questioned Lu Shuangfu directly about the inmate's abuse. Lu pretended to be surprised and asked, "Really? How come I didn't know about this?" Then he put the blame on the leader of another squad who had nothing to do with the matter. When Lu saw that his approach yielded no results, he ordered two new guards to attack Xu Xiaoguo with electric batons in order to try to force him to renounce Falun Gong.

Lu and Squad Leader He Xianghong eventually decided that the two new guards were not brutal enough. They seized the electric batons and shocked Xu Xiaoguo's head and armpits. They shocked him for a long time, until his flesh was burnt.

Packaging Fake Pesticides to Earn Money Dishonestly

The guards in Squad 3 had the prisoners slander Falun Dafa and abuse practitioners by threatening to extend their terms. Many of the prisoners realized that Falun Dafa is good and that practitioners are good people, but due to the threats and incentives, they acted against their conscience and committed crimes against Dafa.

Squad 3 took advantage of the laws that favour corrupt behaviour and allowed bad things to be done to good people. Between April and July 2004, Squad 3 processed and packed at least one hundred tons of fake pesticides and sold them. No one will ever know how many farmers were cheated. In order to produce the fake pesticides, the guards in Squad 3 forced the prisoners to work throughout the night. Everyday, we were assigned huge workloads and had to work over 18 hours. Beatings to force us to complete the work quickly took place daily.

They forced everyone to work excessively in order to torture Dafa practitioners both mentally and physically. Due to so-called "production problems," many Dafa practitioners were beaten by the guards and drug addicts during this period of time.

We need to tear off the false mask of "education, reform and salvation via a gentle breeze and a mild rain" that the Baimiao Forced Labour Camp guards present to the outside world, to expose this den of evil.

Baimiao Forced Labour Camp:

Address: 62 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, zip code 4500002.
Office phone number: 86-371-7624694;
Director of the forced labour camp and Secretary of the Party Committee: Zhang Jianping;

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/12/5/90721.html