Remembering Practitioner Mr. Liu Yucai, Who Died as a Result of Persecution

Mr. Liu Yucai was over 50 years old and lived in Xuanhua County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. In the spring of 2005, the Clearwisdom website reported that he had passed away.

After the spring of 2001, Mr. Liu Yucai was detained for two years in the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia Province for speaking out for Falun Dafa. At that time, in order to protest the practice of not releasing practitioners whose labour term had expired, all the male practitioners in the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp went on a collective hunger strike and refused to perform forced labour. Practitioners were put into "small cells" and tortured. The police guards forced the remaining practitioners to stand in front of the building.

Supervisor Zhang shouted loudly, "Put Liu Yucai into a small cell!" Two guards forced Mr. Liu into a small cell. Without a pause, other practitioners took the lead, and everyone recited Teacher Li's poems. The guards continued to put any practitioner who took the lead into a small cell. However, the sound of voices reciting Teacher Li's poems did not stop until there were only five or six practitioners left.

Several days later, the guards persecuted these practitioners by implementing a damaging force-feeding system. They selected Mr. Liu Yucai, who was over 50 years old and thin and short, as their first target to be force-fed. Mr. Liu was determined not to cooperate, and the police had to pry his mouth open to pour in the rice soup. Mr. Liu fainted and didn't regain consciousness until the next day. Twenty days later, I met Mr. Liu on my way to the toilet. He told me, with his fingers pointing to his mouth, that the rice soup that the police had forced into his mouth had been boiling hot. He fainted even before they had poured all the soup into his mouth. When he regained consciousness, he found his mouth seriously burned with many big blisters. During that event, the practitioners did very well. There were only two "transformed" (1)practitioners, who later declared their repentance statements null and void. They came back to cultivation. After that event, the forced labour camp had to release all the practitioners whose terms had expired without any extra conditions.

As time went by, these practitioners endured several large-scale persecution campaigns, but they were always determined to continue to resist the persecution. In 2002, these practitioners conducted an anti-persecution protest. Zhang Yaguang, the supervisor of the guards, had to come upstairs and promise the practitioners that he would personally guarantee that the persecution of practitioners, including verbal abuse and beatings, would no longer take place. However, shortly after that, in order to follow the commands of the 610 Office (2), the Judicatory Office and the Labour Reeducation Bureau of Inner Mongolia Province, he resumed the cruel persecution of practitioners. When he saw the guards beating practitioners again, Mr. Liu criticized Zhang Yaguang directly, "Didn't you personally guarantee that this would not happen? Where do you stand now?" Zhang Yaguang swore vehemently, ran up to Mr. Liu, hit him in the face, and slapped him over 20 times. Mr. Liu's mouth was full of blood, and he spit the blood onto the ground.

Later on, the police guards worked hard to try to "transform" practitioners. In order to "transform" Mr. Liu, they did not allow him to sleep. Mr. Liu was determined to resist the persecution. The police verbally abused him and refused to let him sleep for several days. As a result, his blood pressure rose, and the police had to give up their efforts to "transform" him. From that time onward, however, Mr. Liu's blood pressure remained high. He felt very cold and was in great pain. He had to be released early from the labour camp. After he returned home, the local police officers harassed him repeatedly. In January 2004, the police searched his home without a warrant. As a result, Mr. Liu couldn't go back to his own home. On January 16, 2004, he died.

Note:

(1) "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

(2) "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/4/28/100597.html