81-Year-Old Practitioner Dies As a Result of Persecution

Sun Guizhi, 81, was a resident of Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Her nickname was "Elderly Lady Huang." Ms. Sun began practising Falun Gong before 1999. She had suffered from a number of ailments since her youth, including tuberculosis, liver disease, heart disease, and spinal problems. These all disappeared after she began practising, however, and she no longer needed to take pills to maintain a normal life.

After the Jiang Zemin regime began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, practitioners were under a great deal of pressure from the state-terror. But even during the most difficult of times, Ms. Sun did not fear this terrible environment or the persecution, and she helped to distribute Dafa materials. She also went to villages along the coast several times to distribute Dafa leaflets exposing the persecution.

After the persecution of Falun Gong began, an official from Ms. Sun's workplace, Shang Jiachen, believed the lies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and became hostile to Dafa and practitioners. Ms. Sun and her husband had no children and were supposed to receive a pension from the government. Ms. Sun had spoken to Mr. Shang about this several times, but she and her husband received less and less money. On December 26th, 2005, she heard that there would be a special New Year fund for elderly couples without children -- several hundred yuan¹ per couple. She called Mr. Shang, and he confirmed the existence of the fund. He said that he would hold the money for her and that she could pick it up after the New Year. However, when she went to him after the New Year, he denied that there was any money for her. During 2006, he did not give Ms. Sun or her husband the full amount of their pension. She became very depressed after this and died on March 9th, 2006.

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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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/18/130723.html