Mengyin is a very beautiful and peaceful place. People who live here used to be so kind-hearted. Life in this area used to be so calm and peaceful. However, since July of 1999, Jiang Zemin and a handful of his followers started the crackdown on Falun Gong. They started their evil attempts against heaven and the people's will. Mengyin could not escape the sin as well as its abuse. The dignity of the law was smashed, conscience disappeared, rumors were overflowing, and brutality was the fashion--people's blood flowed on this ground. Thugs and gangs found their perfect jobs in the government and the police department. Compassionate people were beaten, fined, insulted, robbed, punished and jailed. Ignorant people were deceived, evil mobs were laughing, and kind-hearted people sighed--the ground of Mengyin is trembling.
Around the Chinese Spring Festival, a special task force was formed to deal with Falun Gong. It was headed by Mengyin County leaders Wang Changli, Li Zhiye and Lei Yancheng. They ordered their subordinate villages and towns to hire groups of hooligans, to force Falun Dafa practitioners to attend "reeducation classes." To deal with Falun Dafa practitioners, they used various unheard of brutal means such as boiling water bathing, cigarette burning, bat smashing, ice water pouring, shovel patting on a human excrement container that is covering the practitioner's head, sitting on snow with a fan blowing, harassing women, ransacking, heavy fining, etc.
During the "class," Taoqu town's leader and his followers, Liu Xingshi, Mo guangli and Tian Liegang personally beat practitioners. Duozhuang town police heads Zhang, Shimin, Du, and Zhongtia broke practitioner Quan Gongrun's left leg, and Xu Zengjian's nose. Policeman Liu Yunajin and three hooligans wore masks and snuck into female prisons, they handcuffed female practitioners with their eyes covered, dragged them out of the prison and sexually assaulted them for more than 3 hours. The mobs of Tanbu town sat on female practitioners beating them into comas. Jiuzhai town head, Li Mingguo, ordered his followers to put human excrement steel containers on practitioners' heads and use shovels to smash the containers until the shovels were broken. A rough estimate tells that in Mengyin, 3 practitioners were sentenced to prison terms; over 1,100 were illegally jailed, detained, beaten and fined. The longest illegal detention was 169 days. The above mentioned 5 towns collected fines as much as 2,276,000 Yuan (about $300,000; individually, at least 100 Yuan per person, the most was 15,700 Yuan per person, some practitioners were fined 4 times). In Mengyin, at least 60 practitioners' houses were ransacked and almost everything, such as furniture, wood, electronics, farming tools, fertilizer, grains, seeds, and all kinds of livestock and fowl, were taken away. The practitioners' lives fell into dire straits. Their children had to quit school. One family had to sell the empty house to pay the fines and left the whole family without a room or food. On the other hand, one of Tanbu town's leaders, Li Zhiye, got rewarded with a vacation trip along with a dozen of his followers.
Taoqu town head Liu Xingshi wontedly reinterpreted laws and trampled the dignity of law for his own use. When practitioners asked, "Which laws did we break, why do you torture us? He answered: "You will know what is the law later on." Immediately, a dozen of mobs came in and beat practitioners by using long bats for 3 hours; blood flowed all over the ground. Then he said, "See, this is the law, who else has questions, let me know." Duozhuang town police and mobs ate the food and dishes sent by practitioners' family members for their jailed relatives and gave the leftovers to the practitioners. Police officer Fang Simin took away six out of nine pieces of undergarments sent to jailed female practitioners. All Falun Dafa practitioners replied with no complaints at all from the very beginning to the very end, "beaten without fighting back, abused without grumbling."
During this inhumane brutal persecution, some of our practitioners did not pass the tests and unwillingly wrote pledges and said disrespectful words of Dafa and our Teacher. We solemnly state that all of these pledges and words are invalid. We will again prove ourselves to be genuine practitioners.
Those evil mobs did their best to cover up their sins, not even thinking of any correction. When a practitioner tried to persuade Li Minguo, head of Jiuzhai town, not to beat practitioners, he denied the beatings without even blinking his eyes. Most of the fines they collected had no receipts. Taoqu town forced us to give back their fine receipts. Police head Tian Liegang kicked the arm of a practitioner's relative in relocation; he then terrified doctors not to tell anyone about it. When those mobs beat practitioners they always turn off lights and cover them up, especially when assaulting female practitioners. Well, you can turn off lights and cover up to deceive your own and others, you can collect back all the fine receipts and destroy the evidence and you can use your power to threaten others not to expose you, but how can the facts and the truth be diminished?
"The wicked and evil will soon be eliminated, the vile ones in the human world will receive due retribution." To list the names of those wicked and evil ones is for the purpose of letting people see and recognize the facts. When they receive due retribution, "good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil" is a true natural rule. Humans should be kind-hearted and assimilate with the universes characteristic's "Zhen, Shan, Ren" (Truthfulness, Benevolent, Forbearance).
Falun Dafa Practitioners in China
October 1, 2000