(Clearwisdom.net)
[Editors' Note: This is a 16-year-old boy's heartfelt desire to be reunited with both of his parents. Because Xiao Lei's parents practice Falun Gong, the Chinese police have repeatedly arrested them and thrown them into prison, where they have been subjected to many types of gruesome torture. Xiao Lei's parents were taken away from him at the age of eleven.]
My name is Xiao Lei. I live in No. 5, Unit One, Building No. 2, Wenmiao Small District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China. My father's name is Wu Guangcheng. He used to be the Secretary at the Kaifeng City Real Estate Company. My mother's name is Wang Deping. She used to be the supervisor of the Kaifeng City Highway Maintenance Bureau.
My parents used to be tormented by illnesses. My father suffered from cirrhosis and was often admitted to the hospital. Every year the medical expenses exceeded 10,000 yuan. My mother used to have kidney stones in both kidneys and had to take medicine daily. In July 1997, shortly after they started practicing Falun Gong, their illnesses disappeared and their health was restored. Their doctors were amazed by the miraculous health improvement.
But our peaceful and happy family was ruined after Jiang Zemin banned Falun Gong in July 1999.
One evening in November 2000, my mother's work supervisors came to our home and tried to coerce her to hand in her resignation. I was present and witnessed everything. At the time I was only eleven years old, and I couldn't comprehend why they had to do this to my mother. A few days later, my mother traveled to Beijing and attempted to appeal to the State Appeals Office for the injustice she had suffered. However, the police denied her constitutional right to appeal and imprisoned her in Fengrun Detention Center in Tangshan, Hebei Province. A month later, she was transferred back to Kaifeng and sentenced to three years in Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou, Henan Province without a legal trial. When the leaders at my mother's workplace went to Tangshan to transfer her back to Kaifeng, they stole every penny of my mother's bank savings, totaling 5,310 yuan, with the excuse of compensating their traveling expenses. Later, my father repeatedly demanded that they return the money they had stolen from my mother's bank account, but they only returned 1,300 yuan.
In 2000, my father was fired from his job because he refused to give up practicing Falun Gong. Nevertheless, my father continued his Falun Gong cultivation practice. Later, the local police kidnapped him and imprisoned him in Kaifeng City Detention Center for several months because he clarified the truth about Falun Gong to people. In December 2000, my father went to Beijing and attempted to appeal for Falun Gong, but the Beijing police arrested him and subjected him to brutal beatings. The police repeatedly slammed the door on my father's fingers and caused all of his fingernails to fall off. Later he was sentenced to two years in the Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp without any legal trial. Thus both of my parents were taken away from me. I was left at home without my parents. My neighbors avoided talking to me, afraid of the possibility of being labeled "guilty" by association with my family.
In January 2003, my father was finally released. My father and I finally reunited. Never had I expected that just two months later the Beishudian Street Police Precinct would come and take my father from home. At first they put him in Kaifeng City Detention Center. Then they arbitrarily sentenced him to one year in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp without any legal trial. I was left home alone again without my parents.
Every day that passed, I eagerly anticipated my parents returning home. I know my parents are the best people in the world, but they have been subjected to the worst treatment and torture. I longed for my parents' love and affection, but it might be just wishful thinking.
In August 2003, my mother was finally released, but I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw her. My mother's eyes were sunken and she had lost so much weight that she had become skin and bones. She could not even walk on her own. She weighed about 154 lbs before she was imprisoned, but now she weighed only 87 lbs. Was this woman really my mother? I was so shocked that I could not speak for a long time.
Nevertheless, I was contented to be able to reunite with my mother. After a period of time, my mother was finally nursed back to health. However, we did not have any income. My mother went to her former work organization and asked them to reinstate her, but her request was denied because she refused to renounce Falun Gong in writing. My mother had no choice but to find a part-time manual labor job despite the fact that she was still significantly underweight and very frail. She took on a second job selling bread and buns on the street. Although it was difficult for my mother to put meals on the table, we were contented just to be living with each other. Meanwhile, my mother and I eagerly anticipated my father's return when my whole family could be reunited again.
Unfortunately my small hope was soon crushed. In February 2004, the police from Beishudian Street Police Precinct of the Longting Police Branch Bureau arrested my mother from home. They broke into our home and left nothing unturned. They even broke down the steel anti-burglary door. They arbitrarily sentenced my mother to another two years in Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou. My heart was broken. My parents have been repeatedly taken away from me and thrown into the hands of torturers from hell. It has been six long years. When will my parents and I ever be able to reunite again?
In March 2004, shortly after my mother was taken away from me, my father was finally released. Looking at my father's withered frame and prematurely aged face, I knew right away my father must have suffered a lot of torture.
I cherished the precious time I spent with my father and we eagerly anticipated reuniting with my mother. But a few days ago, my father disappeared! When I came home, I noticed signs of forced entry and burglary. I began to panic and tried to look for clues of my father's whereabouts, but no one was able to help me. Finally I heard that Kaifeng City State Security Bureau had taken my father and locked him up in the Kaifeng City Detention Center. I went there and tried to find him, but they wouldn't tell me anything. Where is my father? What has happened to him? No one told me anything.
Why have these horrible tragedies happened to my family? My mother is imprisoned for the second time and my father is missing. I have been living helplessly in terror and suspense all day long. At this young age, I have already experienced the most insufferable and unimaginable magnitude of pain and suffering. I have witnessed honesty, kindness, and tolerance in my parents, the most revered traditional Chinese virtues. My parents want nothing but to practice Falun Gong and follow Falun Gong's cultivation principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to become better people, but they have been repeatedly subjected to imprisonment and torture. Why must the Chinese Communist regime do this to them?
I hereby urge everyone around the world to help end this senseless persecution and help bring my parents back!
Attachments: Brief Summary of the Persecution against Mr. and Mrs. Wu Guangcheng
Mr. Wu Guangcheng is 45 years old. His home address is No. 5, Unit One Building, No. 2 Wenmiao Small District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China.
In 2000, the local police in Kaifeng City, Henan Province arrested Mr. Wu and imprisoned him in Kaifeng City Detention Center for several months because he clarified the truth about Falun Gong in public. At the end of 2000, Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, but he was unlawfully arrested and ended up being imprisoned in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp for two years. He was released in January 2003, but was unlawfully arrested again in March 2003 and imprisoned in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp for another year. He was released in February 2004. Between July 8 and July 9, 2005, the police arrested Mr. Wu and some other Falun Gong practitioners. It has been verified that Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Zhenying is now imprisoned in the Xinhua Hotel across from the People's Hospital in Kaifeng City. However, Mr. Wu Guangcheng's whereabouts require further investigation.
Ms. Wang Deping, the wife of Mr. Wu Guangcheng, is 44 years old. In 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice Falun Gong and as a result was imprisoned in Fengrun Detention Center in Tangshan, Hebei Province. She was transferred to the No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp (Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp) in Henan Province in 2000 and detained for three years. In August 2003 she was released. In 2004 she was arrested again for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to the local people. In March 2004 the police arrested her again and sentenced her to two years in Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp.
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