[Minghui Net]
I used to live at an army base. According to what I know, before April 25, 1999, there were more than ten army commanders, ranking from battalion commander to division commander, who were Dafa practitioners. There were a total of thirty practitioners at this base.
After April 25, 1999, as had happened with previous things, Jiang banned all military personnel from practicing Falun Gong . At first, most of the practitioners continued to practice. Some of them practiced at home even though they said they would not do it again. For the second round, they told practitioners to give a written pledge not to practice again. Very few practitioners agreed to do this. The third round was more severe, and they forced all those who had practiced Falun Gong to be transferred to civilian work. All the practitioners' phone calls were monitored at the base. One of the practitioners' family members was detained twice because of his appeal. The second time that he was arrested was on Chinese New Year. He had still not been released when I left China (February 2000).
Mr. Zhang was held the rank of division commander. Authorities had attempted to "transform" him for several months before he was sentenced. Because he was too "stubborn" to be transformed, he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
Another practitioner's family member was forced to stop practicing for over twenty days because his whole family opposed him. As a consequence, he had a relapse of a serious heart disease, and his family had to let him continue with the practice. His son (also a practitioner) was beaten until he lost consciousness twice by the security guards of the factory because he had practiced in his hometown. At that time, Everyone felt that Dafa, Master Li and the practitioners were treated unfairly. The practitioners wrote a letter to the People's Congress with their signatures.
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