For the Past Decade, the Residential Committees in China Have Actively Carried Out the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Persecution Policies at the Grassroots Level

Since the onset of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, the residential committees in China have received "assignments" and have assisted in carrying out the persecution.

Participation in the Persecution at the Grass Root

In the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, residential committees in China have severely violated people's legal rights. They use different ways to oppress practitioners in their areas and leave them no recourse but to leave their homes. Even the practitioners' families have been harassed. These committees have become the CCP's grassroots persecutors. Looking at tens of thousands of cases, a few examples from different areas make it easy to gauge the depth of the persecution. The commentary painfully points out that, "The victim of this persecution is everyone in this society." Staff members of the Guangming Street Residential Committee in the Luyang District of Hefei City in Anhui Province actively carry out the regime's persecution policy. They spare no effort in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in their district.

Local practitioner Ms. Wu Jingqing was arrested at the end of October 2002. To implicate her, police planted some Falun Gong CDs in her home while ransacking it. Gongdatang Community Party Secretary Liu Kegui of Guangming Street Residential Committee signed the search list. Ms. Wu was detained in a hotel and a detention centre for about seven months. Due to torture, she passed blood in her stool and urine. The detention centre guard said openly, "If you are dying, we will send you to the hospital, but we will have nothing to do with your death--even if you die five minutes after you are dropped off." Extremely thin, Ms. Wu Jingqing left the detention centre in May 2003, with dignity. It took her several months to recover through studying the Falun Gong teachings and practising the exercises.

However, residential committee staff asked neighbours about her place of employment so they could continue to harass Ms. Wu. Liu Kegui and Chen Chuanming from the residential committee found out in 2006 that she worked for the Coal-mine Design Institute. They broke into her office and took her to a brainwashing centre set up in the Xinhua Hotel in the Luyang District. Her work contract was terminated in 2007, due to constant harassment.

Xu from the Guangming Street Residential Committee found out that Ms. Wu had lost her job and harassed her even more frequently. Xu even threatened her parents, trying to get information about her new work place. During the Olympics Games, Liu Kegui and others monitored Wu Jingqing daily. In June 2009, they frequently threatened her parents, saying she had to give up her practice by October 1st. They declared, "If we can't make her give up, we will get the locals to do it; then we will have the people in the Political and Legal Committee do it..."

Assisting in Arresting and Detaining

Early in June 2007, practitioner Ms. Ying Yu from the Putuo District in Shanghai took a train with her mother to visit her sister in Guangzhou City. Local police arrested them when their train reached Guangzhou, and they were brought back to Shanghai. Their home was ransacked. They were detained in a brainwashing center for three months. Once again at home, local residential committee personnel and the local police harassed them many times at home. Ms. Ying was looking for job possibilities. Sometimes, just after she just got a new job, Putuo District 610 Office¹ agents called her new company and told them that Ying Yu was a Falun Gong practitioner and then threatened the company. The company would then send her on her way. Finally, Ms. Ying found a good job and went to work the morning of July 16th, 2008. Police officer Li Weidong, accompanied by local residential committee personnel, arrested her as she stepped out of the residential building. She has not returned home since.

Ms. Ren Qiuling, a single, older woman from Qingjianer Village, Putuo District, Shanghai, was awakened by knocks on her door at 7:30 a.m. on May 25th, 2009. When she opened the door, residential committee security head Fu Renzhen, local police officer Jiang Jianzhong, and a group of agents from the 610 Office barged into her home, dragged her downstairs from the second floor, and put her into a police vehicle. They then ransacked her home. They interrogated her from morning to night and did not release her until the next afternoon. They deprived her of sleep for the entire time. The 78-year-old woman was exhausted. It almost led to a life-threatening situation.

Surveillance and Harassment

Ms. Guo Qong is in her thirties and used to work for the Hefei City Construction Bank. Prior to practising Falun Gong she suffered from insomnia. After embracing the practice, her illnesses disappeared quickly. After the onset of the persecution in July 1999, Guangming Street Residential Committee personnel took her to a brainwashing centre. She lost her job. Even after she moved she was still harassed frequently. In 2004, Guangming Street Party Committee Head Zheng Rongchun, along with another woman from the residence committee, deceived Ms. Guo into leaving her office. Then they pulled her into a car and took her to the Luyang District Brainwashing Centre in the Xinhua Hotel. Guo Qiong's father suffered from cancer at the time. Her daughter was only one year old. Once she left the brainwashing centre, Guangming Street Residential Committee staff members still kept harassing her and caused her to lose her job. Ms. Guo moved to elsewhere in the same town. The Residential Committee personnel figured out her new location and still harassed her and made life difficult for her.

Ms. Luo Qingshu is a retired engineer from the Geological Survey Institute of the Lanzhou City Geological and Mineral Bureau. After the persecution started, personnel from the Chengguan District Police Department, the Tuanjie Residential Quarter Police Station, the Tuanjiexin Quarter Residential Committee, and her workplace harassed her. Geological Survey Institute Party secretary Bei Saiqing called her every hour to monitor her at home. Ms. Luo chose to leave home to avoid further harassment. Her elderly mother lived in fear, missed her daughter excessively and sobbed so much every day that she could no longer see. The mother suffered from leg and back pain, and was bedridden. She passed away in 2003.

Ms. Luo was at home in August 2001, Zhang Yu from the residential committee reported her. Police officers Zhang Zhenhai, Yu Wenhai, Xiao Zhuzi, and Liu, Head of Xiaoguan Police Station in the Chaoyang District, arrested her. They stated, "You practice Falun Gong, you will get arrested." Policeman Chen Chao then took her to the 610 Office for brainwashing. Her 10-year-old child was left at home alone.

Personal Experience of this Persecution Leads to Understanding What "Coldblooded" Means

The above examples are only a drop in the ocean. "Practitioner Guo Jufeng's hometown is Shuangyazi City, Heilongjiang Province. He started practising Falun Gong in 1995. He now lives in Germany. Speaking from personal experience he said, "Since the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong, it has always saddened me each time I hear about practitioners dying as a result of the persecution. Why do such good people have to die? Why is it so difficult to uphold the truth? Experiencing the persecution in person is completely different from understanding the persecution from reading what is written about it. It makes you feel the persecution is happening right next to you. Experiencing this persecution in person makes you realize what it means to be coldblooded and what heinous is."

Guo Jufeng said, "I am a scholar. When I appealed for Falun Gong in Beijing, I ate leftover food in the street and slept on the street. I was arrested four times. The last time, I was transferred several times and sent to three detention centres. The last arrest happened after the 'Tiananmen Self-immolation Incident.' The CCP was insane in arresting Falun Gong practitioners. Police officer Chen Jin from the Nanshidao Street, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, even travelled from Dalian to Heilongjiang Province to arrest me."

The CCP Owes Tens of Thousands of Families

A practitioner from Jiamusi City shared his personal experience of being persecuted in an article. He wrote, "Due to the CCP's implication policy, the supervisors of Falun Gong practitioners that appealed were either criticized or were not given promotional opportunities, and the workplace would not get any deserved recognition. Therefore, some workplaces would send people to Beijing immediately after they heard that any practitioners that worked for them were appealing in Beijing. It is a waste of human resources, materials, and money. One day I was taken back to Jiamusi, and after the necessary information was recored, I was taken directly to the Jiamusi Detention Centre. Within a week I was fired from my job. While I was in the detention centre, both my parents were struck down by illnesses. Not too long after that, my mother passed away. My father still has not recovered. This is the debt the CCP owes my family.

"In the past six years, people from the residential committee and the administration office monitored my home. My phone was tapped. We had no choice but to move several times. I'm a college graduate and used to work for the government. The persecution made me leave my home. To make a living, I had a stall selling things on the street, I walked through streets and alleys to sell goods, I worked as a waiter in restaurants, and I sold vegetables in the morning market. But the hardship did not break me, because in my innermost being I have the belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I used to live a comfortable life. But because of the persecution I cannot even afford an apartment. My shoes and clothes are hand-me-downs. I had to borrow money to send my child to school. My family is not the only one in circumstances such as this. Many kindhearted people have been persecuted and have lost their families, merely because they believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. There are many orphans of Falun Gong practitioners living on the streets. And yet the persecution still continues."

Good Is Rewarded with Good, and Evil Is Met with Evil. Nothing Escapes the Balance.

Evil will eventually meet with evil returns. We would like to cite just one example. Gongdatang Community Party Secretary Liu Kegui actively participates in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Her husband died of liver cancer in 2005. She suffers from diabetes. Her only daughter has skin cancer.

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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/7/16/204613.html