A Re-enactment of the Torture Methods Used at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing - Part 2

This article continues to expose the details of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by Jiang Zemin's regime at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing. Based on the available information, Falun Gong practitioners have re-enacted these scenes of persecution to expose this den of evil so that the torture can no longer remain hidden.

Torture Method 6: "Towing Backwards"

Torture reenactment of "Towing Backwards"

Down the stone stairs from the on-duty platform, there is a rectangular shaped exercise yard of crushed coal ringed with concrete (the on-duty platform is about 4 metres higher than the exercise yard). This is where prisoners and guards assemble, walk, exercise and play basketball every day. On one side of the exercise yard, there is a three-story cell building (the heavy discipline team is on the 2nd floor). The rest of the exercise yard is surrounded by stone walls that are about the same height as the on-duty platform (roughly four or five metres). Standing in the exercise yard, it's as if you are standing inside a rectangular pit, and you can only see a small area of sky.

If the guard overseeing the torture of a practitioner doesn't get what he wants from the conversation, he shouts, "Drag him back!" If the prisoners don't please the "cadre," they won't receive any "rewards or incentives," so they immediately force the practitioner to the ground face down, with four prisoners lifting his legs (two on each leg), and run forward, dragging him. The practitioner's body scrapes noisily across the ground. Buttons, shoes and socks come off and the practitioner's clothes are torn to pieces. The prisoners drag the practitioner down the stone stairs, across the exercise yard of crushed coal, then back upstairs, through the cement corridor, and finally arrive at the cell. The practitioner's hands are covered with blood, and he has abrasions and bruises on his face, and dirt and mud all over his body (especially on rainy days). The prisoners scold the practitioner as they drag him, and through their actions they created an atmosphere of terror.

Torture Method 7: Beaten Mercilessly

Torture reenactment: dragged back and mercilessly beaten	Torture reenactment: struck in the centre of the foot
Torture reenactment: choked and muffled	Torture reenactment: racked with pain

After the practitioner is dragged back to his cell, the prisoners bind his neck with a towel, tightening it from behind. They shove the practitioner to the ground into a semi-seated position. Another prisoner stuffs dirty clothes into the practitioner's mouth, and several prisoners stomp and kick the practitioner's feet and legs. Normally seven or eight prisoners surround one practitioner; strike the center of his hands and feet, and use chopsticks to pinch his flesh. They hit him with anything at hand, from rice containers to rubber stools. To hide the screaming, the prisoners sing loudly. The practitioner quickly loses consciousness being tortured this way, and wakes up after some time has passed. The prisoner on duty watches from outside, and says in a strange voice, "Don't kill him" (a sarcastic suggestion to continue beating him).

Torture Method 8: Forced to Look at Pornography

Torture reenactment: Forced to look at pornography

A Falun Gong practitioner is forced to sit in front of the iron bed, while two prisoners hold him down. One prisoner pulls his head back by his hair, one person forces his eyes open, two more prisoners sit on the bed behind him, and they all force the practitioner to look at pornography. Another prisoner stands in the back, ready to beat the practitioner with a wooden stick. They also try to force practitioners to sing lewd songs.

Squadron head Li Qiwei has publicly stated, "Forcing Falun Gong practitioners to sing vulgar songs and look at decadent pictures helps them return to society."

Torture Method 8: Forging the "Three Statements," (1) Forced to Give Fingerprints

Torture reenactment: Forging the "Three Statements"	Torture reenactment: Forcibly taking fingerprints

Several prisoners hold a Falun Gong practitioner's head and body down on an iron bed, while two more hold out the practitioner's right hand. One prisoner grabs the practitioner's hand, forcing him to sign and put his fingerprints on the forged "Three Statements." The rest of the prisoners shout curses while waiting for their award points and sentence reductions.

When Long Shishun was appointed the Vice Manager and Education Brigade Chief of Xishanping, he issued these cold-blooded decrees: "Get results using any means necessary," and "Stop at nothing in acquiring the three statements." Prisoners willingly participate in these efforts because they seek undeserved credit and rewards. Their results belie the true intentions of the practitioners, and undermine their will. They say to practitioners, "We can prove that you've already signed the three statements, no matter what you say." Li Qiwei openly said to Falun Gong practitioners, "Prisoners writing the three statements on behalf of Falun Gong practitioners are acting nobly, and the Falun Gong practitioners should thank the prisoners."

Torture Method 10: Hung Up and Beaten

Torture reenactment: Hung Up and Beaten

Prisoners wrap the Falun Gong practitioner in a bed sheet, so their injuries won't be visible, and hang him from a door or a window. Then the whole group surrounds him, beating him savagely with wooden clubs. When the practitioner loses consciousness from the torture, prisoners splash cold water on him until he regains consciousness. Though he can't even raise his head, he is repeatedly tortured. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Jibin (28 years old) worked for the Qijiang Gear Factory in Chongqing. In September 2001, he was sent to Xishanping, and suffered various tortures in the heavy discipline team of the Education Brigade. He was severely disfigured, his face became very pale and he became disabled due to an injury to his leg. In the first half of 2002, the torture he encountered was most severe. Being hung up and beaten was only one of the torture methods he suffered.

Falun Gong practitioners under heavy discipline are starved, threatened, tortured and deprived of sleep for long periods of time, so they become very emaciated. They are often covered with dirt and mud, suffer mental problems, and have old wounds that won't heal next to fresh wounds. They have difficulty walking and speaking normally, their bodies no longer function properly, and they are so weak they seem to be barely alive. When they are tortured, they have so little resistance that they faint very easily.

Chongqing area numbers
The Chongqing City Reeducation and Drug Rehabilitation Administration Office: 86-23-6827-2131/2111/2105
Address: Beibei District, Chongqing City, postcode: 400700
The Chongqing City New Forced Labour Transfer Post: 86-23-6775-8448
Address: No. 18 Wannian Village, Renhe Town, Yubei postcode: 401121
Chongqing City Reeducation through Forced Labour Administrative Bureau: 86-23-6787-1831
fax: 86-23-6787-1831
Address: 10th floor, No. 72 Yangheyi Village, Jiangbei District postcode: 400020
The Chongqing Xishanping work farm: 86-23-6827-1290
The Chongqing Xishanping Reeducation through Forced Labour Administrative Station: 86-23-6827-2131/2009
Address: Beibei, Chongqing postcode: 400700

Note:

(1) "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/25/96140.html