(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Liu Xuguo worked at an electrical repair shop for the Yishan Chemical Industry Company in Zoucheng City, Shandong Province. Ten years ago, he was tortured to death. I was saddened by the loss of a good practitioner.
Liu Xuguo
Liu Xuguo attended Master's Fa lectures in Heze city. When he returned, he and other practitioners actively promoted the Fa, and they established group practice sites and Fa study sites one after another.
One time, Liu Xuguo and several other practitioners used a classroom to play the videos of Master lecturing on the Fa. He and the others went on the streets to promote the Fa lecture videos. Liu Xuguo always arrived early with the TV set and DVD player. Because it was an abandoned classroom, there were no chairs or desks, so Liu Xuguo and the other practitioners moved desks and dozens of long benches from another classroom that was quite far away. After the lecture, they put the furniture back. More and more people came to watch the Fa lecture videos.
Before the nine-day lectures ended, Liu Xuguo established a practice site in that school. Because many new practitioners had joined, there were not enough Dafa books for everyone. He then went to other cities to get Dafa books, pictures of Master, and Falun emblems for the new practitioners. When new practitioners asked him questions about the Fa, he patiently shared his understanding with them. He would tell them that when they study the Fa more, their questions would be answered. Liu Xuguo was an assistant. Many assistants from different areas and other practitioners often went to his home for Dafa materials or sharing. Liu Xuguo happily accommodated them. He was truly selfless and responsible to the Fa.
In order to further promote Dafa, Liu Xuguo also organized many Fa conferences; so that practitioners had the opportunity to share their experiences and improve as a whole. In those day, every morning, one could see people practicing Falun Gong everywhere, and could hear the beautiful exercise music.
On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime started persecuting Falun Gong. Liu Xuguo went to clarify the truth to the officials in Beijing at the end of October 1999. He was arrested by police officers in Tiananmen Square. Officers from the political and security office of the Zoucheng City Public Security Bureau and Zoucheng City Qianquan police office took him back home. On November 2, 1999, he was detained by the Zoucheng Public Security Bureau and subsequently held for a month in the Zoucheng Detention Center. Meanwhile, his work unit expelled him. At the end of January 2000, agents from the Zoucheng Public Security Bureau deceived Liu Xuguo shortly after he was released from the police station. Without any legal procedure or notification to his family, Liu Xuguo was sentenced to three years in the Jining City Forced Labor Camp.
In the Jining Forced Labor Camp, Liu Xuguo and other practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the maltreatment they were experiencing. However, the prison guards still forced them to do hard labor and carry sand bags to wear them down. On the sixth day of the hunger strike, Liu Xuguo was force-fed. As a result, he ended up with fluid in his lungs from injuries caused during insertion of the feeding tube. On February 4, his family was notified that Liu Xuguo was in critical condition. When his family arrived at the Jining Medical School Affiliated Hospital, they saw that his lips were blue and he had difficulty talking. At 2:30 p.m. on February 10, he passed away. He was only 29 years old.
He left behind his father, who was paralyzed because of a stroke; his mother, who suffers from cancer; his young wife, and a son who was less than two years old. He also had a younger brother who was still in school.
Not stopping there, the Chinese Communist Party continued to torment Liu's family. The local police officers harassed the family by assigning eight people each day to watch his wife, who is also a practitioner, 24 hours a day. They would sleep on the family's sofa at night. Not long after, his wife was sentenced to two years in the Jinan Forced Labor Camp.
Liu Xuguo's parents passed away after losing their son and living in such a difficult environment. Today, Liu Xuguo's son is 12 years old and lives with his mother.
