Rape Victim Ms. Liu Jizhi: "I Want to Expose the Evil Persecution"

People have been shocked by the brutality of the persecution exposed in the December 1st, 2005, Clearwisdom article (1) "Chinese Policeman Rapes Two Female Falun Gong Practitioners." In order to help more people see clearly the evil nature of this persecution, one of the victims, Ms. Liu Jizhi has revealed the details of her experience.

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My name is Liu Jizhi. I'm fifty-one years old, and live in Xituan Village, Dongchengfang Town, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. My husband's name is Wei Xiliang, and he's forty-eight years old. We have two daughters who are both in college. I started practising Falun Dafa in February 1999. I used to have low blood pressure, arrhythmia, and leg pain. My biggest problem was an acutely dislocated disk, which made it so I could not get out of bed. My husband used to take care of me and also tend the fields. He took over all the household duties. My sicknesses also caused me to have a bad temper.

After only one month of practising Falun Dafa, I could rejoin the field labour crews, do household chores, and my family became peaceful. My children all said, "Mum, you have become a better person." Falun Dafa changed my life and brought happiness to my family. But several months later, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Dafa. Local officials from the government and police station kept harassing us during so-called "sensitive" days. The peaceful life of our family disappeared. That was six years ago.

On November 24th, 2005, around 8:00 p.m., a group of strangers suddenly stormed into my house. Our yard gate was locked, so they climbed over our stone fence. I was doing housework and was shocked by their behaviour. The strangers were shouting in my house, rampaging everywhere. The Political Director Xing (male) of the local police station ordered me to stand still. I asked them while still shivering, "Who are you? What are you doing?" They shouted back, "Don't ask! Don't move!"

After trashing my house, they took away a diary (which contains Falun Dafa teachings), a booklet exposing the persecution, two audiotapes, 2 boom boxes that my daughters used to learn English, and one CD player. They pushed me into the car and took me to the Village Office.

I saw my fellow practitioners, Ms. Han Yuzhi, Mr. Wei Baoliang, Mr. Wang Helin, and from the Dongchengfang Town Police Station, 610 Office¹ leaders Chai Yuqiao (male) and Song Xiaobin (gender unknown) already in the room. After they locked me in the room, that group of villains went out to arrest more practitioners. Later they arrested another practitioner, Ms. Qu Wenting, then pushed us all into a vehicle, and took us to the Dongchengfang Town Police Station, locked us in an office, and interrogated us one by one.

They first interrogated me. Political Director Xing took me into his office. Policeman He Xuejian (male) and another male policeman were in the room. Xing asked, "Sit down, tell me from whom you learned Falun Gong? Have you practised together with Mr. Wang Helin? Anybody else?" I said, No." He asked again, "Have you practised with practitioners in other villages? Have you practised with Han Yuzhi?" I told him no. Xing then said, "You are not being honest. Aren't you Falun Gong practitioners supposed to tell the truth?" I told him I was speaking the truth. Xing said again, "My mother is the same age as you. I hope you tell me the truth, otherwise I will have to be bad mannered with you." I told him again that I spoke the truth. Xing then said, "Looks like you are very innocent, but you do not speak the truth. Stand up!"

He loudly ordered me to sit in a squat with my arms raised up, then he beat me with a rubber baton on my buttocks. It was too painful to bear. He breathed heavily due to beating me so hard. He said, "You Falun Gong practitioners are too resolute, but I don't believe that we cannot beat you into giving in." Policeman He Xuejian came over also, grabbed my collar bone very hard, and slapped me three or four times. They saw that I still would not give in. He used an electric baton to shock my thighs, and claimed the baton was not working well.

Another policeman in the room said, "I will go get my baton to help you shock her." But he could not find his baton, and went out and looked in all the rooms. They then used a rubber baton to beat me brutally. I fell forward because I could not bear the beating any longer. They pulled me up, and continued to beat me, leaving many bruises on my body.

They were tired because they beat me so hard. He Xuejian grabbed my breast, and said with a dirty smile, "Am I a scoundrel?" At this time they wrote up the interrogation report, but did not allow me to see it. They forced me down saying, "These statements are correct. Confirm what I have recorded," and forced me to acknowledge it with my fingerprint on the report. They took me back to the office afterwards.

The second interrogation occurred around 11 p.m. Policeman He Xuejian took me to another room, where 610 Office Head Chai Yuqiao was reading a newspaper. He told him I was not easy to deal with. He ordered me to squat again and raise my arms, and beat me hard more than ten times with a rubber baton. I fell onto Chai Yuqiao, He Xuejian pulled me up, made me change directions, and continued to beat me. I could not bear the cruel beating any longer, and cried while kneeling on the floor. Chai Yuqiao said, "That is enough beating now." He then stopped the beating, and sent me back to the office. That night four of us ladies sat on the bed, while two gentlemen sat on the little stool overnight. The police locked the door using metal wire. They refused to open the door in the next morning to let us use the toilet.

On the morning of November 25th, 2005, the policemen went to Xituan Village to arrest more Falun Dafa practitioners, and returned after lunch. Officer He Xuejian took me to his dorm room. Policemen Wang Zengjun (male, his roommate) was lying on his bed, and 610 office member Wang Huiqi was standing in the room.

He Xuejian did not ask me anything, but forced me to squat like the day before. he beat me with a rubber baton several times, then clinched my throat, suffocating me. Then he pinched my breast. He lifted up my shirt and said, "The flesh is very tender." He electric baton shocked my nipples twice, and said, "This is fun, her nipples sparked." Then he pushed me onto his bed, and started to strip off my trousers.

610 Office member Wang Huiqi was standing in the room the entire time, and did not stop He Xuejian, but left the room when he saw He Xuejian had started stripping off my trousers. He even said with hatred, "Beat her!" None of them ever locked the door.

I was resisting, and pushed him away. He forced me onto the bed again, slapped my face, and said, "You don't move. He stripped my trousers off and put two of his fingers into my vagina. I pushed him very hard. He then lifted my body up, and changed my position on the bed. Then he sat on my belly and grabbed my breasts. I turned my head, because I didn't want to see him. He then turned my head back. I struggled very hard, pushing him with both hands, and tried to get up. He said, "Don't move!" and took off his trousers. I said, "For your own good, do not do such a bad deed! You are a policeman. Do not commit a crime that heaven will not forgive! You are a young man, I beg you to leave me, an old lady, alone." At that time he looked like a demon, refusing to listen to my plea. He took out his penis, forced me to look at it, and raped me.

His roommate was lying on the bed the entire time, and only turned several times, to look at what was happening and didn't utter a word or attempt to stop him.

I closed my eyes. He Xuejian shouted like an animal, "Old lady, open your eyes, look at me!" He also slapped me one more time. He got down from my body after he finished raping me. I was so shocked, I did not remember pulling my trousers up. He shouted at me, "Let me pull my trousers up," and said, "We just had a short one since it is daytime. We will have a long one tonight." I cried, thinking that this evil scoundrel would harm more fellow practitioners.

After I went back to the office, I cried so loud, "I cannot face anyone. I want to die here. I cannot go back to our village again." I then tried to hit my head against the table corner. Fellow practitioners held me back. I remembered at that moment that suicide is sinful and that I could not commit suicide. I told the other three lady practitioners very weakly, "You must be careful. This sinful crime might happen to you." Before I finished my sentence, He Xuejian took Ms. Han Yuzhi out. I cried so hard in Ms. Qu Wenting's lap. She asked me what had happened. I told her I was raped. Ms. Qu Wenting cried while padding her thighs, "How can they commit such crimes!" The other practitioners were all shaking. I pressed my hands together toward Mr. Wang Helin, "Please save Ms. Han Yuzhi now!" My mind was blank, I had been shivering all that time in shock.

After half an hour, we were all forced to do labour in the yard. I saw Ms. Han Yuzhi who was doing labour as well, with a very pale face. I asked her, "What did they do to you?" She said, "They raped me." We both cried while holding each other. He Xuejian saw us crying, and shouted, "What are you doing? Go back to work!"

That night, He Xuejian dragged me about trying to find a room, but after three rooms were all filled with people, he said with anger, "Now leave! Let me go back to the office."

On November 26th, my father-in-law borrowed one thousand yuan², but they said it was not enough. He then borrowed another two thousand yuan, and bailed me out. My two daughters are both in college, and need a lot of money. The harvest was not good. This three thousand yuan is a heavy burden on our family.

Kind-hearted people, what did I do wrong? Why have I received such humiliation just because I am trying to be a better person, healing my sicknesses and keeping fit? How can I face the world from now on? I am an innocent person. Policeman dare to ignore my constitutional rights just because I practise Falun Gong. Why is it so hard to be a good person in China? They dared to do such violence to me, a good lady in her fifties. I hereby call on all people with conscience to pay attention to the evil crimes that happened to me. If the persecution of Falun Gong does not stop, these tragedies will continue. Right now, I am suffering after the shock of being raped, I feel blurry minded, and my lower body is in constant pain. If I did not know from Falun Dafa that suicide is a sin, I probably would have already left this world. I lost the courage to live, and the confidence to face the world. I only hope the world's people will wake up. I wish this persecution will end soon, and wish these kinds of crimes will end soon!

(1) (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/12/1/67457.html)

Note

1. "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.

2. "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.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/4/115767.html