Tears and Blood of Dalian: The Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Yan, Part 2

This article is continued from Part 1: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200510/29234.html

In April 2000, Sun Yan's husband, Lu Kaili went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He was held at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Before his term expired, he was transferred to the Dalian Forced Labour Camp. Upon arriving at the Labour Camp in the afternoon, he was tortured by guards and inmates who tried to force him to give up Dafa. He endured the fanatic persecution, and the perpetrators unconstitutionally extended his sentence by six months. After he was released, he was followed and monitored.

In November 2001, Sun Yan was sent to the Yaojia Detention Centre, and later transferred to the Dalian City Forced Labour Camp. Lu Kaili was held at the Guanshan Forced Labour Camp.

Sun Yan was held at Division 3 at the Dalian Forced Labour Camp. She refused to "reform"¹ and told the facts of Falun Dafa to the division head. She was held in solitary confinement and savagely tortured. Wan, the female division head shocked her with electric batons. Division head Han and political head Tan incited the inmates to beat her. They stripped her naked and rubbed a knotted rope back and forth against her genitals; blood dripped on the floor. They hung her in a metal cage, forced her legs apart and inserted hot peppers into her vagina. Yuan Lingyue, head of Group 3 beat Sun Yan and other Dafa practitioners many times. They tortured Sun Yan in the solitary confinement cell because she refused to write a guarantee statement to renounce Dafa.

In early 2002, many Dafa practitioners including Sun Yan held a group hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards were furious and ordered the inmates to torture the practitioners with a method called "splitting the legs."

Splitting the legs: the practitioner is hung up. The inmates tie the top of a boxing helmet on the practitioner's head with a rope or strips of bed sheets, then to the top of the cage. The practitioner's hands and one leg are pulled up straight and chained or tied to the side of the cage, and the other leg is left hanging in the air. The inmates would pull on the other leg until it's 180 degrees apart from the other leg. They would let go of the other leg when the practitioner loses consciousness, and repeat it when he or she comes to. While administering the torture, the inmates would ask the practitioner, "Will you reform?" and they screamed, "If you don't reform, we'll split your legs until they break!" The practitioner feels as if her body is split in two, and she often loses feelings in her legs or even loses consciousness. The inmates would say, "She can't feel anything now; let's wait for a moment and do this again." Some practitioners could not walk for weeks, a month or even six months after the torture.

Below are reenactment photos demonstrating the tortures used on Sun Yan and other female Dafa practitioners at the Dalian Forced Labour Camp

Re-enactment Photo: force-feeding hot pepper water and faeces

Many practitioners held a group hunger strike to protest the savage abuse under the persecution, and the guards ordered inmates to torture the practitioners with "splitting the pelvis:" they hang the practitioner up and pull up their arms and legs so they form a straight line, then they insert a stick or hot pepper into the practitioner's vagina and brutally beat them. They also pour boiling water on the practitioner, don't allow the practitioner to sleep, force her to stand barefoot in the winter with the windows open; they purposely leave the feeding tube inside the practitioner's stomach for a long time and handcuff the practitioner to a bed. Practitioners Wang Lijun, Sun Yan and Man Chunrong were savagely tortured. Zhang, head of the labour camp, division heads Han and Wan and group head Yang personally beat Falun Gong practitioners. Zhang said, "So, you want to talk about evil? I am evil!"

Reenactment photo: boiling water poured on feet	Reenactment photo: hitting the feet with nails fastened to a wooden board

Sun Yan and Man Chunrong were tortured numerous times while holding hunger strikes and refusing to cooperate with the perpetrators. Sun Yan was hung in a cage for six days and six nights with her hands and feet stretched out in a straight line. The guards incited the inmates to insert hot pepper and powdered pepper into her vagina and stab her vagina with a mop handle. They hit her genitals with the edge of a chair until blood ran down her legs. They rubbed her genitals back and forth with a knotted coarse rope until her vagina hemorrhaged and swelled up. She could not urinate and was crippled for over a year. Her fingers were so deformed from torture she could not make a fist. Despite her condition, she was still forced to process kelp and meet the assigned daily quota.

Practitioner Chang Xuexia had her vagina repeatedly scrubbed with a shoe brush until the water in a basin underneath her turned red with blood. She lost consciousness.

Reenactment photo: scrubbing practitioner's vagina with shoe brush	Reenactment photo: rubbing practitioner's genitals with knotted coarse rope

In 2003, Sun Yan shouted, "Falun Dafa is Good" when officials from Liaoning Province Judicial Bureau went to the labour camp to inspect work. The guards and inmates dragged her to a solitary confinement cell and tortured her for more than ten days, until her feet were severely injured and she couldn't walk.

Sun Yan refused to give up her belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. Group head Yuan Lingyue took her to a solitary confinement cell and tortured her with the Death Bed². They stretched her arms and legs to cause excruciating pain. They inserted hot pepper into her vagina and scrubbed her vagina with a shoe brush until she lost consciousness. Sun Yan's body often received new wounds on top of old ones. Her face was often black and blue when she was dragged out of the solitary confinement cell, and she was extremely weak. During more than two years at the labour camp, Sun Yan was crippled and she could not bend or stretch her fingers. The guards wrote Falun Gong founder's name on Sun Yan's body and insulted her with extremely vulgar language. They sent Sun Yan and two other practitioners to the Longshan Forced Labour Camp.

Reenactment photo: Death Bed	Reenactment photo: Tying with rope and hanging up

Aside from personally persecuting the practitioners, the guards at the Dalian Forced Labour Camp also encourage the inmates to torture the practitioners by promising sentence reductions. Inmate Zhang, nicknamed Spike, is very vicious and specialises in torturing Falun Gong practitioners in solitary confinement cells. She became more cruel and cold-blooded after being trained by labour camp authorities. Other inmates including Sun Bo, Guo Ling, Wang Xin and Ge Hong also used the aforementioned methods to torture practitioners. The guards would blame the inmates for whatever happened to the practitioners.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)goes to great lengths to present its prisons and labour camps in a favourable light, in an attempt to cover up the atrocities committed there. The CCP has invited foreign media to visit certain prisons and labour camps after they had been decorated.

Sun Yan persisted in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, despite the fanatic persecution, and the guards and inmates could not destroy her will. In the end, the guards extended Sun Yan's term by 50 days and sent her to the Guanshan Forced Labour Camp.

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. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/8/30/109381.html