(Clearwisdom Net)
I was sentenced to two years of "reeducation through labor" because of my firm belief in Falun Dafa. I would like to expose the following facts to all the kind people around the world, so that everyone will know more about the brutal persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.
During July and August of 2000, the labor camp sent a group of people to be trained on how to get Falun Dafa practitioners to give up their beliefs. The "technique" they learned was to use a group of prisoners to torture practitioners. Usually two prisoners "watch" one practitioner, and "watching" actually means humiliating, brutally beating, and torturing.
On August 15, 2000, the Dayan Labor Camp in Ziyang city, Sichuan Province adopted this method to torture practitioners. At 8 AM, the guards forced practitioners to run barefoot. The concrete ground later became scorching hot under the sun, but some practitioners were still forced to run until it was dark. The guards tried to force us to submit to them and denounce Dafa by denying us food and rest, but we refused. This only infuriated them, and they intensified the torture. When the running ended, we were forced to hold the same standing position. After that, the prisoners forced us to run while carrying heavy objects and performing heavy manual labor.
Later, the guards forced us to run again. Being extremely fatigued after an entire day of heavy work, we could not run as fast as they wanted, so they brutally beat us. When I collapsed to the ground from exhaustion, they rushed over to beat me, forcing me to keep running. This continued until about 10 o'clock in the evening . After that, we were forced to stand outside holding the same position again, to be bitten by the mosquitoes. My understanding of the tribulation at that time was not deep, and I took the suffering without thinking about it. I thought that our compassion and forbearance would awaken their conscience, but instead they took it as meekness and incited prisoners to torture us. The prisoners who tortured us the most viciously had their sentences reduced.
During that night the labor camp got a warning. A powerful thunderstorm raged throughout the night, destroying many TV's and other electronic devices, but these vile people had no regret and continued doing vicious things. The guards woke us up very early in the morning and pushed us outside into the thunderstorm. They then forced us to stand still in corners facing urine buckets, from morning until dusk, with only a short meal break. The guards even beat us while we were standing. When the rain stopped, we were forced to run again. When a practitioner fell down, the guards would punch and kick him. Several times the guards pulled me into a restroom and beat me up. At 2 AM, the guards allowed us to sleep but woke us up two hours later. At 4 AM we were forced to run again, and another round of torture began.
On the third day, the guards devised another way to torture us, forcing us to run while pushing a cart full of clay up and down a hill. Meanwhile, prisoners were ordered to whip us, but we still did not give in to them. In the afternoon, I collapsed and did not want to comply with them any longer. I said to myself that even if I was tortured to death, I would not give up my righteous belief in Falun Dafa. I began a hunger strike, and they force-fed me. They even forced me to swallow my own vomit and hooked me up to an intravenous drip.
The guards saw that torture could not force me to submit, so they tried a different route. Starting on August 20, the guards continuously tried to brainwash me, reading books slandering Falun Dafa to me. Their plot failed, and on August 24, the guards started to violently beat me again as before, shocking me with electric batons and whipping me with sticks.
At this time I could not take the suffering anymore. I wanted to deceive them by pretending I was "reformed" and I accepted their request. I showed my "inability to deal with things using righteous thoughts amidst painful trials" ("Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)"). I used ordinary people's notions and feelings to face the tribulation, letting the evil take advantage of my weakness. I accepted the wrong understanding of the Fa. Only when I studied the Fa after being released did I realize my severe mistake. I do not want to say more about the mistake I made and how regretful I am. All I want to do is get back into the Fa rectification, reveal the evil deeds of Jiang Zemin's group in persecuting Falun Dafa, make up for the damage I caused to Dafa, and clarify the truth of Falun Dafa to people no matter what it will take.
