Beatings, Force-feedings and Death Commonplace for Female Practitioners in Baimalong Forced Labour Camp

By a Female Falun Dafa Practitioner From China

I am a Female Falun Dafa practitioner from Hunan Province. On the evening of January 16, 2001, the police arrested me and took me to a detention centre. On February 21, 2001, they illegally sent me to Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, without any due process. Here, I want to tell my nightmare of an ordeal after being detained for more than one year, from which I am lucky to get out alive, in order to expose the crimes of the authorities at the camp.

In what they called the "Discipline Team," the sadistic male officer dragged us out, and kicked, punched, shocked, and beat us while we were handcuffed, because we persisted in studying the Fa [the teachings of Falun Dafa] and doing the exercises. Ms Zou Ruxiang, a practitioner, could not walk steadily as a result of these beatings. However, we did not renounce our belief in spite of the repeated beatings and torture. The amoral police then forced us to undergo sleep deprivation and made us stand upright overnight. Once, the police hung and beat a practitioner for a day. She was in a terrible state! Her genitals became severely injured from the beatings she received on that area, and her body was full of blisters from the electric shocks, yet she was not moved to renounce her belief. The police brutally beat and shocked me, without restraint, with electric batons because I refused to wear a prisoner's uniform. We then went on a hunger strike to protest, having no other recourse to show our opposition to the torture. The police force-fed us using brutal means. Some practitioners lost their teeth during the force-feeding. One practitioner even died due to the horrifying force-feeding. Another practitioner was beaten to death by the prison officials. They sent female practitioners Yang Youyuan and Xia Ting to a mental institution although they were mentally healthy and forcefully injected them with neurological drugs against their will. Xia Ting, a college student, received the drugs for over a month, lost her memory, and could not walk steadily.

The police shackled several dozen practitioners who were detained by a second squad. The police instigated the inmates to persecute the practitioners who were sent there to do hard labour. They also locked the practitioners in isolation. They cuffed female practitioner Chen Chanmei with iron cuffs and shackles weighing over 10 lbs each, and locked her in solitary confinement for seven days. Although the torture lasted for a long time, determined Falun Gong practitioners did not give in to the torture.

Those collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have stopped practising due to brainwashing and torture. They now assist in the torture and brainwashing.] did every bad thing that one could imagine. The collaborators did not allow the practitioners to study the Fa or to practise the exercises and punished them by taping their mouths shut with tape, stuffing sanitary napkins into their mouths, pulling their hair, and even tearing several practitioners' mouths severely. Some mothers (who had become collaborators) beat their daughters in order to force them to give up Falun Gong; and daughters (who had become collaborators) also beat their mothers. The situation became very complicated and terrifying. Actually, these collaborators were all victims themselves. They initially wanted to cultivate kindness and be good people. Yet the forced labour camp turned them into vicious people. The pressure from the abusers was so intense, it made some people lose their grip on knowing the difference between right and wrong, and so removed their sense of human decency. When the practitioners did the exercises, these collaborators tied the practitioners' hands and feet overnight. Gan Jiejun from Changsha, Hunan Province tightened my clothes and pinched my neck so that my whole body became numb and breathing became difficult. They also swore at Dafa and Teacher Li, and prevented the practitioners from speaking or contacting each other.

Last New Year's Eve, I prevented the police from broadcasting programmes slandering and attacking Dafa. The police were stunned at that time and asked me why I did that. I said, "These are all lies. I shall not let them hide the truth and deceive the people of the world." That same night, the police locked six practitioners in my cell, including female practitioners Chen Ouxiang and Zou Ruxiang, and directed the criminal inmates to beat us. It is too painful to recall in detail.

Regardless, we always resisted the evildoers and were not afraid.

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