(Clearwisdom.net) I am 33 years old and live in a mountain village in Sichuan Province. In 1997, my mother began practicing Falun Dafa. In 1998, I also began to cultivate Dafa. I have benefited both physically and mentally.
In 1999, the government began persecuting Falun Gong. In February 2000, my mother traveled to Beijing to tell the government that Falun Gong is good. Before she was sent home, unscrupulous persons from the township government stole all of our household belongings, including daily-use items.
The government representatives auctioned off many of our valuables, including a TV, a tape recorder, an electrical fan, a diesel engine, a rice cooker, 100 meters of rubber hose, a sofa, and several chairs. They also stole and divided our preserved meats, sausages, lard supply, vegetable oil, soap, salt, and live chickens. They even took our seed rice for next year and destroyed them. They had to use a large truck to haul away all of the items they stole from us.
I went to the township government to reason with them and ask them to at least return our cooking wok. I told them we needed the wok so we can cook and feed the family. They not only refused to return it to me, a clerk even slapped me on the face. I went home empty-handed with a swollen face. The next day I borrowed 200 Yuan* and went to Beijing to appeal. In March 2000, the township police incarcerated me in a makeshift prison in the township. I was detained there for 18 days and my mother was detained for 20 days. After we were released we returned to an empty house. We had no seeds. Our water pump and irrigation hoses were gone. And we had no farming tools left. Now, almost four years later, we are still living in a miserable situation. Falun Dafa made our family happy and prosperous. Those who persecute Dafa destroyed our family.
In October 2000, I clarified the facts to a few fellow villagers and told the villagers about the true nature of the persecution. When the township government found out about this, they took me to a forced labor camp and tortured me for one-and-a-half years. When my mother received a few Dafa truth-clarifying flyers, she passed them on to other people because she is illiterate. As a result, the township government sent her to the Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp for two years.
After my mother and I served our full sentences, the police put us under surveillance. Toward the end of March, 2002 I wrote, "Falun Dafa is good" on a power line post. The police came to my house to make an arrest. I was not home, so they took my mother and detained her in a drug rehab center [drug rehabcenters are used by the government to detain Falun Dafa practitioners]. They also arrested my wife and my mother in-law and sent them to a detention center. My wife and her mother resisted the illegal arrest by holding a hunger strike. The detention center kept them for over a month before releasing them.
The police surrounded my house for three days and nights after they failed to capture me. Their plan was to arrest me when I returned home. The township government posted a reward of 500 Yuan for information about my whereabouts. The reward for personally capturing me was set at 10,000 Yuan. I had no choice but go into hiding.
When my wife came home from the prison, the police also followed her around. On June 24, 2002, my wife left home for work. On June 26, the township government agents sent police officers to her parents' house to arrest her. They failed to find her, so they took her mother instead. A policeman even pointed a handgun at my father in-law. Several policemen carried my mother in-law away and placed her in a car. We later heard that she was sent to the Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp.
In June 2003, my wife and I came home for her to give birth to our child. The police from the National Security Department arrested us on our way home. They stole all my personal belongings, including 2,600 Yuan in cash, a cell phone, clothing, and my blankets and sheets. They detained me in the Leshizhu Mountain Prison. They also threatened to abort our almost to term child in the hospital. Fortunately, our child was eventually delivered safely. The National Security Police falsely claimed that they found Dafa books and flyers in my luggage. Based on this fabricated testimony, the district court sentenced me to a four-year prison term.
* Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan.
December 13, 2003
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