"The Risen Lotus Flower" Wu Junyang

The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Gong for ten years. I recently recalled a fellow practitioner, Wu Junyang, who left us five years ago. He was young, righteous and brilliant. All the people who knew him felt pain in their hearts upon his death.

Mr. Wu Junyang started practising Falun Gong when he was 22 years old. He finished reading the Falun Gong book Zhuan Falun in two nights, and the next afternoon when he took a bus to return home, and when he smelled cigarette smoke, he felt nauseous, so he quit smoking and drinking. He felt that Falun Gong was so great, and he told this to his family.

On July 20th, 1999 the Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong. Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal four times and was detained at the detention centre twice. After he arrived back home he withdrew 10,000 yuan¹, which was his only savings, to make leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. After he was detained three times, he was forced to leave his workplace, so he lost his source of income. As a result he was forced to become homeless, and his life became very difficult. In winter, because he had no money to buy coal, he could not warm himself. When he saw the snow melting, he collected leaves and grass to maintain his life. He devoted all his time to informing people about the persecution of Falun Gong and dispelling the state propaganda attacking the practice. Regardless how difficult it was to do so, he conducted himself according to Falun Gong's principles.

At midnight on September 18th, 2004, many policemen from Benxi City, Liaoning Province jumped into the yard of the house he rented. They broke the locked windows and jumped into his room from three windows. They cuffed Mr. Wu and put him in the police car. They detained him in a small dark room at the Benxi Detention Centre and tortured him. Each day the thugs beat him to force him to give them information about the site producing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and his fellow practitioners. Regardless of how they tortured him, he divulged nothing.

Mr. Wu's family requested to see him many times, but the guard did not allow them to meet with him. After he was detained for 54 days, he asked his family to bring an insulated warm-up suit to him. After he was detained for 57 days, his family was asked to sign a paper. When his family met with Wu Junyang, he was lying on a flexible bed in the corridor of the Benxi First-aid Centre Hospital. Wu Junyang, who was previously heavyset, was tortured to the point of being skin and bones, and he had become blind. When he heard his family's voices, he said, "Water, water. Since they brought me here, they have not given me water." When his family saw this scene, they cried loudly. When they looked up, they found that the guards had all disappeared, including the prison doctor.

Wu Junyang knew that his family had no money, so he told his family, "It is unnecessary to cure me. Let's go home." When his family took him home, the entire process was only half an hour. Wu Junyang felt a severe headache, and could not speak, and later his speech was unclear. No one knew what kind of torture he had suffered. His former clothes disappeared and he wore only the cotton warm-up suit that his family provided for him. His body was full of scars, his left eyeball protruded, and one ear was black and purple. His neck could not be touched, his arms and inner legs were full of thickly dotted pinprick scabs, and his left kneecap was swollen and purple. He was unable to move, fainted from time to time, and appeared incontinent. He told his family that there were ten yuan in his pocket that were not his. He had his family give it to the site producing Falun Gong leaflets. What a sacred heart he had! Even the policemen who knew his situation well said, "Wu Junyang is a good man. He is the No. 1 in Benxi City."

When a funeral was held for Wu Junyang, the police were very scared. There were many policemen and plain clothes officers inside and outside the crematory. Many practitioners were hindered by police from attending the funeral. They could not see Wu Junyang for the last time, and only watched this sacred lotus rise and rise.

Note

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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/7/14/204504.html