Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Makes Huge Profits Using Slave Labour to Produce Harmful Products

When I read on the Internet that Masanjia Forced Labour Camp was enslaving Falun Dafa practitioners, I was distressed. The authorities use the profit motive to dehumanise the guards so they are willing to overwork practitioners. On the surface, financial gain is the motive for them to persecute them. To stop this gross injustice, we should not only reveal the mental and physical devastation it causes, but also make it impossible for the perpetrators to make a profit by persecuting practitioners.

1. One of my friends is related to a guard at the Masanjia Labour Camp. He told me he heard that last year every guard in Masanjia got a year-end bonuses of tens of thousands of yuan (1), all of it gained from illegal slave labour. Sometimes monthly bonuses are several times their salary.

2. Masanjia Labour Camp forces Dafa practitioners to make money for them. Practitioners must make a large number of cardboard boxes, handling glue for a long time. Some people's eyes were irritated and watering, and the skin of their fingers split. Young practitioners are forced to make clothes, such as "Huachen Automobile Company uniforms," and many handicrafts, including bracelets, necklaces, hair ornaments, and artificial flowers. Older women are forced to make "hygienic cotton swabs." The cotton ball sticks were in big bags that were dumped onto the ground. The workers took mildewed cotton in the ungloved left hand, dipped the stick in glue, and grabbed some cotton to twist onto the stick. The people who are forced to make these "hygienic cotton swabs" include practitioners and criminals. These cotton swabs were labelled "antiseptic, hygienic, for medical use."

3. The guards compete for money. If last month Team One made three thousand yuan, this month Team Two will force criminals to work overtime to surpass them. This money comes from exploiting slaves. Many practitioners see this clearly so they refuse to cooperate with the authorities, refusing to work for dirty money. Guards then put them into small cells where they beat and abuse them. The female guards were even more vicious than the males. I hope those women will come to understand what is right and wrong, and that they do not lose their futures just to make money.

Note:

(1) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/3/31/98544.html