(Clearwisdom.net) Guards in the Fifth Group of the Shanghai Qingpu Women's Forced Labor Camp usually don't directly participate in the persecution. Instead, they teach imprisoned drug addicts to brainwash, threaten, and monitor Falun Gong practitioners. In return, they reward or punish the drug addicts depending on the results.
Falun Gong practitioner Xu Xiaoyan refused to give up his belief in Falun Gong in 2008. Guard Li Zhuolin arranged for drug addict Dai Xiaoying and others to monitor Xu Xiaoyan in a small room with both the door and windows shut. They threatened her and tried to force her to write the three statements promising to give up the practice. As the drug addicts were not successful in making her renounce her belief in Falun Gong, they were punished by not being given any bonus points or extra money.
Chen Hong, one of the female drug addicts, no longer wanted to monitor Falun Gong practitioners, and applied to go back to the forced labor work. Guard Shao Dongsheng became concerned that drug addicts from other groups would also not want to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, so she cursed at and physically abused Chen Hong, and told her she would not be allowed to leave. Guard Shao Dongsheng also warned her not to tell the others about this.
The guards then no longer believed that Chen Hong could provide them with any accurate information about Falun Gong, so they ordered the other drug addicts to begin monitoring her. The reason Shao Dongsheng wouldn't let Chen Hong go back to labor work was to conceal to the fact that the Fifth Group drug addicts are persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
When the guards realized that they were unable to change the practitioners, they brought together the drug addicts and practitioners, and deprived both groups of sleep. The drug addicts were forced to stand with practitioners all night long. Many of the drug addicts could not endure this torture and they knelt in front of practitioners, held onto the legs of practitioners, and begged and pleaded with the practitioners to give up their beliefs.
Falun Gong Practitioner Qing Hongxian never gave up her belief during the five years she was illegally detained in the women's prison. She was thus made to stand for an entire night. Her feet became so swollen that she couldn't wear shoes for some time, and guards Xi Jin and Li Zhuolin forced drug addict Jin Yuehuang to watch her all night long, without bathroom breaks or any movement. Finally Jin Yuehuang knelt in front of practitioner Qing Hongxian, crying loudly and begging her to write the three statements.
When practitioner Wang Ye was in a forced labor camp again in 2009, they used the same approach and forced two drug addicts to monitor her without sleeping. Seeing the pain the two drug addicts were in and listening to their cries begging her to give up Falun Gong, Wang Ye was very anxious for them.
Many drug addicts expressed secretly that although the workloads were heavy in other groups, they would rather go back to their original teams, where they could talk freely in their rooms. The guards forced them to monitor Falun Gong practitioners every day, and prohibit the practitioners from contacting or talking with each other, and to write reports about the practitioners every day.
The guards checked the information provided by the drug addicts in the same room. When one drug addict reported something said by a practitioner that the other drug addicts didn't report, the rest of people were punished. They were told directly, "Your task is to monitor and 'convert' Falun Gong practitioners, and that is why you do not need to labor like drug addicts in other groups."
Drug addict Chai Xiaoyun didn't understand how to "convert" practitioners, so guard Shao Dongsheng forced her to read books that slandered Dafa and write "experience" reports. She was also asked questions every day, and if she could not answer, she was forced to copy or read the slanderous books.
Practitioner Sun Zhuoying refused to read the books that slandered Dafa in 2008. Guard Shao Dongsheng subsequently forced drug addict Lu Beili and others to take turns reading the books out loud to her, giving her no break, even though she had just been discharged from the hospital.
Two weeks after new practitioner Zhang Yi, in 2008, wrote the three statements under pressure, she realized her mistake and refused to continue reading books that slandered Falun Dafa. Guard Xi Jin immediately interrogated drug addict Hu Meirong, who monitored Sun, and all the other drug addicts in the same room. They assigned other drug addicts to monitor Sun.
The guards tried every means possible to cover up the torture inflicted on Falun Gong practitioners. They lied to others in the forced labor camp and said, "No one needs to do heavy labor in the Fifth Group. Falun Gong practitioners live comfortable lives. Every day they just watch videos and read books."
Even though the guards thought they had "brainwashed" the drug addicts by repeatedly showing them slanderous video tapes, most of these inmates learned the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution, and most realized that practitioners were compassionate and considerate people. Although there were conflicts after living together for a long time, they knew that true practitioners always use "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" to discipline themselves.
We heard that many drug addicts quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after they were released. One of them said, "The guards in the labor camp behave even worse than animals. They treat Falun Dafa practitioners who cultivate compassion in such evil ways. The guards said it was good enough for the practitioners to write the three statements, but they never really believed the practitioners. They continued having the drug addicts monitor the daily lives of practitioners and write reports every day. Practitioners who refused to give up their beliefs were punished by being forced to stand all night long without rest or bathroom use. It was inhuman!"
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