The Truth Behind the Pretty Gift Boxes

"Five-Ram Cake" is quite well-known in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Looking at the well-dressed customers smelling the delicious cake, one wouldn't doubt the hygiene of the food. But are the fancy boxes they come in clean as well? I was shocked when I first heard about it. The truth behind the fancy boxes is violent, brutal, dark and dirty.

One of my friends has been held at Section 3 of Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp merely because of his belief in Falun Dafa and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The forced labour camp holds over twenty Falun Dafa practitioners from Tangshan, Langfang, Zhangjiakou, Cangzhou, Dachang County, Xianghe County, Changli County, etc. The guards force them to work intensively. They have to work about 13-14 hours per day, and then work overtime to earn money for the guards. The most frequent work is to process various boxes, cartons and containers, including the containers for the "Five-Ram Cake," gift boxes for the Jinyuan Hotel, gift boxes for the Hebei Hotel, sacks for "Three Deer Milk," napkins for "Five Grains Ritual Field," containers for "Huiyuan Juice," carry-out boxes, cartons for the drugs from Huabei Pharmaceutics and Shenwei Pharmacy, and lids for some oral medicines, etc.

Students from experimental classes in middle school and elementary school usually put their things in boxes. But no one knows that these boxes come from a forced labour system. It is yet to be confirmed if the labour camps have an agreement with the educational system. But what is of most concern is that the labour camp doesn't carry any facilities for disinfection, not to mention having hygienic facilities. Many people there contract hepatitis, scabies and other contagious diseases. Nonetheless, the labour camp authorities force them to work. The guards there are totally after profit, and they don't care about people at all.

The guards instructed a few men, among whom were Zhang and Shi from Hengshui, to verbally attack and slander Falun Dafa and Teacher Li, the founder of Falun Dafa. They used out-of-context quotes to enforce the brainwashing and attempted to "reform¹" practitioners. The authorities, seeing that it wasn't working, got rid of those men, and the guards manipulated and treated them as dogs. After that, the authorities started torturing people by giving orders to the inmates.

Practitioner Wang Jianhui of Tangshan used to be a broadcaster. When he shouted out "Falun Dafa is good" the inmates choked his throat so hard that he lost his voice. The labour camp director is very sly and sinister, and he doesn't leave any sign of wounds when he beats people. One of the practitioners is very firm in his practice, and the guards had four or five inmates force him to sit in the meditation position with legs double crossed for over a dozen hours without rest. The inmates took turns to hold his legs in that position (sitting in that position for long can be so painful that one can pass out).

The division lead named Bian Shuqiang was promoted for persecuting practitioners. He clamoured blatantly, "No reasoning in the camp, we are the truth." You can imagine the outcome when we have "law enforcers" like this.

We hope all friends lend their hands to rescue those practitioners who are still detained. The forced labour camp is not a place for good people. Please call with your conscience, and condemn the evil happening in the labour camps. They are violating the law when they enforce the law, and are not only violating Falun Dafa practitioners' rights, but also encroaching every citizen's interests.

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")

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/1/20/147237.html