[Minghui Net] Among the Dafa practitioners in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, there are two families sharing the same kind of suffering. One family consists of Li Qiyue, an electrical engineer in a joint venture, his wife Jiang Yingshun, a senior engineer at Glass Research Institute, and their fifteen-year-old daughter. The other consists of Cui Chuanqi, an engineer in Second Construction Company of Qinhuangdao City, his wife Du Zhimei, a teacher in No 11 High School, and their seven-year-old daughter.
In October 1999, both couples planned to clarify the truth to the government and stand up for Falun Dafa. So with good intention they went to Beijing to appeal. But they were arrested and handcuffed before reaching the gate of the appeals bureau, and were sent back to Qinhuangdao City by force. The two men, Li Qiyue and Cui Chuanqi, were put into criminal detention for one month, and then switched to disciplinary detention for another month. Both of them were then sent to labor camps because they remained committed to their beliefs. They were first held in Shanhaiguan Labor Camp, Qinhuangdao City. A few months later, they were transferred to Zhaokou Labor Camp (Gaoyang County, Baoding City) and are being held to this day. The two women, Jiang Shunying and Du Zhimei, were released from their disciplinary detention after about two months. Last October, the women went to Beijing again to validate Dafa and were sent back to their hometown and detained for one month. Then they were sent to Kaiping Labor Camp in Tangshan City. During the whole process, their families were provided with neither oral nor written notice. After inquiring everywhere, their families finally learned that both of them were sentenced to three years in labor camps.
These four people are all young intellectuals. In their work units, they have very good reputations. The first couple, Li Yueqi and Jiang Yingshun, went through almost all the procedures for Canadian immigration before they started to practice Falun Gong. By making the difficult decision to stay in China, they lost tens of thousands of Yuan RMB (The Chinese dollar. The average monthly salary in urban areas is about 500 Yuan trans.), giving up favorable living conditions that they would have had in Canada. They chose to stay and serve their country, but their country cruelly put this exemplary couple into labor camps, where they greatly suffered both mentally and physically. In the labor camps, the guards even deprive them of their right to be visited by family members. Nobody knows their current situations.
We met the two families' young and na ve daughters, and they said, "Daddy is the best daddy in the world, Mommy is the best mommy in the world, I miss my daddy! I miss my mommy! " I hope their two na ve and pure minds can understand the reason for their suffering: They've lost their parents' care and their families have been torn apart not because their parents practice Falun Dafa, but because of Jiang Zemin's distorted values and warped human nature, the evil's havoc, the trampling on laws and human rights, and so on...
I remember very clearly that Du Zhimei once said to a government staff member, "I hope the government can deal with the Falun Gong issue from a practical and reasonable standpoint. Don't create too many regrets for tomorrow. " That's true, looking back at history--there are too many painful lessons!
I once heard Jiang Shunying say, "Falun Dafa means serving others." It's true--every practitioner knows very well what Falun Dafa is and what our great and kind Teacher has given us. We didn't pay for anything, but we gained just the same.
Cui Chuanqi wrote to his family, saying, "One righteous thought can suppress one hundred evils." A guard in the labor camp said, "Cui Chuanqi is too firm, he insisted that the self-immolation incident on TV was completely fake and that it wasn't the behavior of Dafa practitioners whatsoever." Li Yueqi's boss from his work unit said to him while he was in the labor camp, "We can bail you out as soon as you write a simple statement." He answered peacefully, "I didn't do anything wrong so I won't write any statement." Although both of them were imprisoned, they still maintained rock-solid righteous belief in and thoughts toward Dafa. They're so admirable. Will their acts make us find our own conscience again, asking ourselves, "Where is my true self? Where is my kind nature?" Their righteous beliefs and thoughts are enough to shake the evil beings that persecute Dafa.
All kindhearted people! Wake up and don't miss this extremely rare opportunity. For our children, for you, for me, and for others, let us distinguish the good from the bad, and suppress, stop and eliminate the evil together.
Practitioners from China
March 16, 2001
