(Clearwisdom.net)
Ma Yongming was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Wuqing District, Tianjin City. After learning Falun Dafa, Yongming's family experienced happiness and his health and spirit greatly improved. In July 1999, the government launched the persecution of Falun Dafa and Yongming became the target of local authorities. On November 25, 2001, Ma Yongming could not bear the pressure any longer, and he committed suicide by hanging himself. Falun Dafa forbids killing, including killing oneself. Dafa practitioners should cherish the human body, and continue to cultivate according to Dafa's principles when facing suffering or humiliation. But it was the repeated persecution that led to Ma Yongming's death. Those who participated in persecuting him will be punished according to the laws of heaven and earth.
Ma Yongming lived in Heping Village of Baigutun Town at Wuqing District, Tianjin City. Ma Yongming and his wife started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. Through practice, their physical health and morality improved, and they were able to be more tolerant toward each other. Ma Yongming used to have a bad temper, causing frequent quarrels. When they started acting according to the principles of Falun Dafa, "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance," their family problems were resolved and their lives improved.
On July 20, 1999, when Jiang Zemin started to persecute Falun Dafa, Ma Yongming and his wife remained steadfast in their belief in Teacher and Dafa. One morning, Wang Jixin, the director of Baigutun Town Police Station, along with some other policemen, went to Ma Yongming's home. Heping Village Party Committee Secretary Li Zhenfang, Security Officer Guo Fu and some other government officers such as Wang Jincai from the Forced Birth Control Office accompanied the police. These people took two cars and went to Ma Yongming's home to confiscate his Dafa books. They also tried to pressure Ma Yongming, asking him to give up practicing and to write a Repentance Statement. Ma Yongming said, "There is nothing wrong with performing the exercises and becoming a better person." So he refused to do anything. The authorities then abducted him to the Baigutun Town government office, and forced him to turn in his Dafa books. If he did not turn the books, he would be kept there indefinitely. Under such enormous pressure, his family was forced to turn in two books. Ma Yongming was released, but he still felt terrible because his family turned in the Dafa books.
On February 27, 2000, when some practitioners in Baigutun Town gathered together to share understandings, all of them were arrested. From that time on, both the town government and the local police started to monitor and follow the practitioners every day. On March 13, Village Security Officer Guo Fu led the Town Political and Juridical Committee Secretary Liu Shidong and another officer to Ma Yongming's house after 11 pm. They asked Ma Yongming and his wife to give up their practice, but the couple refused. The authorities then arrested them and took them to the police station for an illegal interrogation. Police Station Director Wang Jixin threatened them: "Do you still want to practice? If so, you can no longer go back home." Another policeman took a pair of handcuffs and waved them in the air as a threat. Later, the couple was taken to the town government building for brainwashing. They were asked to give up their practice and make written statements. They were released after 5 days of illegal detention and 1,000 Yuan each bail money. They were also asked to report to the police station at 8 am every day. Since Ma Yongming wrote a statement under intense pressure, he felt very bad, and extremely guilty.
On the morning of May 12, 2000, Ma Yongming, his wife, his sister Ma Yongyun, cousin Ma Yongli, and brother Ma Yongyue were talking about family issues at Ma Yongyue's house. Suddenly, town government officers Liu Shidong, Zhang Xiuyong, Qiao and some other police officers came and took them to the town government building. They were released after a 4-day hunger strike.
In July 2000, town government officer Qiao Jinxiang and an assistant went to Ma Yongming's home, asking them to promise to no longer go to Beijing. Their normal life was continually disturbed like this.
On December 25, 2000, Village Officer Wang Wendong and Village Security Officer Guo Fu came to Ma Yongming's home again after 10 a.m., and asked him to write the "Three Statements," renouncing Falun Dafa.
On December 27, 2000, Town Government Officer Qiao Jinxiang went to Ma Yongming's home and threatened him: "I have promised that you will not go to Beijing, so you do not need to report to the Town Government for the time being."
In March 2001, Town Government officials forced Ma Yongming to go to Dawangguzhuang Town for brainwashing. Yongming was persecuted there.
One day around July 25, 2001, seven or eight policemen (surnamed Liu, Wu, Zhen etc.) came to Ma Yongming's home and searched recklessly. At that time, Ma Yongming was not at home, so his wife asked the policemen: "How can you just come into my house and search? Do you have the permit to search?" Wu said, "No." With those words, the police took her to the police station, and confiscated one copy of Zhuan Falun and one copy of Essentials for Further Advancement.
After they took Ma Yongming's wife to the police station, they searched Ma Yongming's house again. As soon as Ma Yongming returned home after laboring in the field, he was taken to the police station and illegally interrogated. Police station director Liu Wenge (now transferred to another post) and 7 or 8 other policemen took turns to shock his face, chest, and back with electric batons. After 3 p.m., Ma Yongming and his wife were illegally sent to Wuqing District Detention Center, where Ma Yongming suffered more brutal torture. The police detained them for 15 days and forced them to pay a fine of 450 Yuan before releasing them.
Several days later, Township Government officers surnamed Liu and Qiao, as well as one police officer named Liu went to Ma Yongming's home again and again, asking the couple to go to the township government to watch videos defaming Dafa. The couple refused. In this way, Ma Yongming suffered tremendously from the continuous persecutions.
On November 20, 2001, Baigutun Town 610 Office's new director Wang Jincai (female), Dai Xiaoqiao, another township government officer, as well as a police officer surnamed Liu went to Ma Yongming's home again, and asked him to write the "Three Statements." They even said, "We have received orders. If you do not write [the "Three Statements"], you will first be detained for 7 days in the township government office, then 15 days at the detention center, then sentenced to two and a half years in a labor camp." With the repeated persecution, Ma Yongming suffered enormously both mentally and physically, and it finally exceeded his capacity to endure. After 4 p.m. on November 25, 2001, he hanged himself and died. He was 40 years old.
The police and the township government officials were scared by this. The next day, a policeman named Liu went to practitioner Wu's home (also in the same village as Ma Yongming) and said, "You killed Ma Yongming." This practitioner pointed out the lie on the site. Later, the policeman went to Baigutun Village Electrical Milling Room and spread lies: "Ma Yongming did something bad. That is why he died." Practitioners in Baigutun Village told people on site the truth about how Ma Yongming was persecuted to death.
Because Ma Yongming was persecuted to death, his father (more than 70 years old) could not bear this enormous blow and died within two years. A happy and harmonious family was persecuted so severely that only a 15-year old daughter and her mother are left living together today.
Even under such a situation, the authorities still go to this family from time to time to harass them. The daughter carries a severe mental burden.
January 1, 2005
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