I Was Brutally Tortured in Zhongba Forced Labour Camp in Guizhou Province

I am a Falun Gong practitioner in Guizhou Province. Since I wouldn't give up my belief in Falun Gong and insisted on practising, in 2001 I was detained and sent to the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp in Guizhou Province. I was brutally tortured there for three years. During that period, they used various inhumane methods to try to force me to give up my belief, and the supervisor at my workplace suspended my job and my salary. He thus cut off all of my financial support and took away my means of survival. Cultivating in Falun Gong is my righteous choice. Who can change it?

I would like to share my personal experience of being brutally tortured at the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp in Guizhou Province.

While I was detained at the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp, my routine started at 6:00 a.m. We got up and convened at roll call, and then everyone got a steamed bun as our breakfast. At 7:00 a.m., after the other detainees had entered their their workplace, I was subjected to "military training" for the whole day while being monitored by two criminals. They continuously gave orders to me, and I was forced to run in the yard for a very long time. They forced me to practise military marching manoeuvres, such as standing for a long time, kneeling down and standing up (sometimes on one leg) thousands of times. For the whole day, they only allowed me to rest two or three times, and only ten minutes each time. If I couldn't follow their orders, they punished me and forced me to do more. This "military training" lasted five hours in the morning and four hours in the afternoon everyday, and as a result, the muscles in my right thigh were badly injured. I was exhausted and couldn't go upstairs or downstairs by myself. They planned to punish Falun Gong practitioners and harm us physically this way, wearing down our will so that we would give up our cultivation.

In mid-June 2002, the labour camp guards went to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp to learn more ways of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. After they returned, they were eager to put them to use. I was transferred to the garrison of Zhongba Labour Camp, and I was not allowed to drink water for two days. They shone a strong light into my eyes, causing my eyes to water and hurt. I was not allowed to sit or sleep, and two guards took turns talking to me for 24 hours. They detained me in a dark, cold and humid room of less than four square metres, where the guards could look in from the window. I was tortured by four personal monitors in two groups. I was forced to perform military training during the daytime, and in the evening I was forced to stand. I was not allowed to sleep, and if I closed my eyes, they would wake me up or pour cold water over my head and force me to listen to or read brainwashing material. I was only given small amounts of food, and they put a lot of salt in my food and prevented me from eating at times.

Just when I reached the limit of my endurance, they forced me to run in the yard for a long time. I couldn't run as they ordered, so they tied my hands and wrists up tightly and ran ahead, pulling me along. I fell down, but they didn't stop. They kept pulling me along on the ground with the rope, so my trousers were torn, and I was cut and bleeding. However, they still wouldn't stop. They kept pulling me and forced me to run. The baking sun in June was especially scorching, and they forced me to put on a heavy cotton winter jacket. I perspired a lot due to the extremely hot temperature. Since I refused to give up Falun Gong, at nights I was always beaten by those criminals who were monitoring me, injuring my chest and causing a lot of pain. During that period, the deputy of the garrison said to me viciously, "Today we will beat you to death, and then we will announce to the public that you committed suicide." After that, the officials handcuffed my hands behind my back and hung me up on the fence of the garrison's front gate. I was brutally tortured in this way for six days and seven nights. As a result of the long-term torture, I had hallucinations. Then, due to a lack of mental clarity, I eventually let the evildoers take advantage of me and I wrote the three statements to give up Falun Gong. After I was able to think rationally again, I felt deep regret inside my heart, and since then I have made on several occasions a solemn announcement to clarify that everything that I wrote in violation of Falun Gong during the high-pressure persecution, while my mind was not clear, is void.

After I publicized my announcement, the guards retaliated by persecuting me even more fanatically, and they put me into the garrison again. I suffered from their inhumane torture again. I was beaten repeatedly by five criminals including Chen Haitao and Ye Houzhong. My mouth was swollen and bleeding. My chest, back, arms and legs were badly injured. As a result, I couldn't take care of myself for a long time.

In 2003, I was transferred again from the garrison to another jail. Once, because I spread Falun Gong articles among detained practitioners, I was sent to the office of the jail. They handcuffed my hands behind me. Later, I was beaten down to the ground by Yang Renshou, Li Jimin, Guo Yin and Zhang Ge. They forced me to kneel on the ground and trampled so hard on my legs and feet that they were cut and bruised. In May 2003, since I resisted the persecution and brainwashing, under the guards' orders, Jiang Jifu, the criminal who was monitoring me at that time, hit my chest violently. I couldn't breath for a few moments, and later on I felt excruciating pain in my chest. I couldn't bend down to pick up things on the ground, and I couldn't speak aloud or breathe deeply either. In the following six months, the sharp pain in my chest has flared up several times. In 2003, in order to resist the persecution and brainwashing being done to them, more than 20 Falun Gong practitioners who were detained in that jail publicized their solemn announcements, saying that everything that they wrote in violation of Dafa during the high-pressure persecution was void. The guards were stunned. Later on, the guards' annual bonuses were cancelled, and they were blamed by their supervisors. We could feel that their wickedness dramatically weakened. After that, I was detained in a solitary room on the third floor. The room was humid and adjacent to a toilet. In order to make me give up my belief, the guards made me sleep on the ground. Under the severe conditions of the frigid winter, my legs felt numb after five weeks. I couldn't stand up and walk by myself after that, and it wasn't until later that my legs became normal again.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/1/23/194029.html