[Peace-discuss] Fw: An Attack on Conscience Through Mind Destroying Drugs

Wed Jun 30 03:46:50 CDT 2010

Does anyone know why Falun Gong is such a threat to the Chinese government?
I've wondered about this for a long time.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:47 PM, unionyes <unionyes at ameritech.net> wrote:

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> *Subject:* An Attack on Conscience Through Mind Destroying Drugs
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> *An Attack on Conscience
> Through Mind Destroying Drugs*
>
> In the free world, the sworn and solemn oath taken by medical doctors is
> "to do no harm." Conversely in China, doctors often collaborate with
> authorities to help destroy the health and sanity of people who do not "toe
> the Party line." By use of insidious and purposeful administering of
> mind-alternating drugs, China allows doctors to do intentional harm to the
> minds of those viewed to be in opposition to its requirements
>
> In a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 15, 2010,
> Dr. Shizhong Chen told the Council that, "Volumes and volumes of reports
> from the Council's own Special Rapporteurs have documented thousands of
> cases of severe torture and killing of Falun Gong practitioners by the
> Chinese authorities." He described documentation of how, when physical
> torture failed to break the will of Falun Gong practitioners, the Chinese
> authorities turned to psychiatric abuse. He concluded by appealing "to
> international society to speak up against China's mind-killing medication.
> To remain silent to such killing of the mind is a suicide of our collective
> conscience and humanity." To read his entire speech, please click here<http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=93073723&msgid=613824&act=QC3Y&c=529022&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fconsciencefoundation.org%2Findex.php%2Fcommentary%2Fglobal-concerns%2F265-dr-chens-speech-to-the-human-rights-council>.
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>
> The UN Committee, formed to review reports of Torture in China, stated,
> "The Committee also notes with concern that this provision has been misused
> to detain some people in psychiatric hospitals for reasons other than
> medical."
>
> Chinese authorities have taken an untold number of perfectly rational and
> sane Falun Gong practitioners to mental hospitals to be "transformed."
>
> The U.N. Special Rapporteur, Professor Manfred Nowak, in his China Country
> Visit Report stated: "*Detainees also stated that Falun Gong practitioners
> who had not renounced their beliefs after six months in detention were
> placed in the Intensive Training section until they were 'reformed'. Falun
> Gong practitioners formerly detained at this facility refer to this section
> as the 'Intensive Torture Section.'*"
>
> Statistics indicate that cases of "psychiatric treatment" have spread to 23
> out of 33 provinces under the direct leadership of the central government in
> China. At least 100 psychiatric facilities have been employed in the
> persecution. Clearly, the abuse of psychiatric drugs on Falun Gong
> practitioners has been a well-planned, systematically carried out, top-down
> policy.
>
> Since the objective of supposed psychiatric treatment is not for the
> "patient's" well-being, the "psychiatric treatment" may well take place in
> mental hospitals, forced labor camps, or any detention facility. The
> following accounts remind us of what is really being done to Falun Gong
> practitioners behind the scenes of China's expanding economy.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Mr. Zhao Peijie Forced to Ingest Nervous System Destroying Drugs*
>
> *Mr. Zhao Peijie*, male, 32 years of age, from Xiaonigou Village, Datong
> Town, Rongcheng City, Shandong Province, was beaten, tortured, and forced to
> take drugs that destroyed his central nervous system. As a result, he became
> mentally ill, and died in the wilderness on June 28, 2008.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Liu Xiaolian Beaten, Drugged and Electrocuted in a Psychiatric
> Department*
>
>
>  *Ms. Liu Xiaolian*
>
> *Ms. Liu Xiaolian's swollen body*
>
> In April 2006, officials from the Chibi City Police Department, Hubei
> Province arrested Ms. Liu Xiaolian, 69, and sent her to the Psychiatric
> Department of the Pufang Hospital. At the hospital, Ms. Liu was brutally
> beaten, injected with toxic drugs, fed mentally debilitating drugs, and
> shocked with high-voltage electric batons. For 24 hours, they continuously
> injected her with the drug. She lost consciousness for two consecutive days
> and her whole body became dark and swollen. After she woke up, she
> temporarily lost the ability to speak. She died on the afternoon of October
> 26, 2008.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Li Dongqing Injected with Brain-Damaging Drugs at a Mental Hospital*
>
> *Ms. Li Dongqing*, 46, lived in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On May
> 24, 2008, she was arrested and put into the Dongling District Mental
> Hospital in Shenyang. She was injected with drugs, which made her suffer
> severe psychological damage.
>
>  *Ms. Li Dongqing*
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Han Ming Subjected to Forced Labor, Dies at age 30*
>
> *Ms. Han Ming* was an employee of the Pingshui Machinery Factory in Pingba
> County, Guizhou Province. On February 28, 2001, she was sentenced to two
> years of forced labor. While detained in the Guizhou Province Women's Forced
> Labor Camp, she was injected with an unknown drug, which caused her entire
> body to suffer muscle atrophy. Her condition deteriorated and she died on
> March 20, 2003, at the age of 30.
>
>  *Ms. Han Ming*
> ------------------------------
>
> *Pregnant Woman Injected with Harmful Drugs*
>
> *Ms. Zhang Wuying* and her husband, *Mr. Wu Dianhui*, are from Changzhou
> City, Jiangsu Province. In February of 2000, the Changzhou Public Security
> Bureau arrested Mr. Wu. Although Mr. Wu and his wife were not mentally ill,
> upon his release from the detention center, the two were forcibly taken to
> the Changzhou Liberation Army's 102 Mental Hospital. Ms. Zhang was tied to
> the bed, injected with unknown drugs and force-fed, even though she was over
> five months pregnant.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Han Sentenced to Forced Labor for Her Belief, Her Sister Loses Job*
>
> *Ms. Han Yuheng* tried to check into a Beijing hotel on February 21, 2009,
> while on a business trip, when a computer check identified her as a Falun
> Gong practitioner. She was arrested on the basis of this identification
> alone and subsequently sentenced to two years of forced labor. When her case
> garnered interest on the Internet, Chinese authorities started to harass her
> family in apparent retaliation. As a result, Ms. Han's sister, Ms. Han
> Yuguan, was dismissed from her job.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Jiang Nan Injected with Drugs in a Sichuan Province Mental Hospital*
>
> *Ms. Jiang Nan*, 39, a teacher from Deyang City, Sichuan Province was
> harassed for practicing Falun Gong by village officials, including her
> ex-husband and by superiors at work. On August 7, 2009, she was reported to
> the authorities for distributing Falun Gong materials, her home was
> ransacked, and she was taken to a mental health facility in Deyang City. At
> the facility she was told that she needed to admit she was suffering from
> mental illness in order to avoid a criminal sentence. She was administered
> drugs for unknown reasons and tied to a bed until she was in a weakened and
> emaciated state. In November of 2009, her supervisor at work was informed
> that he could pick her up from the hospital. It is unknown whether she has
> returned home safely.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Li Juhua Became Mentally Disoriented Following Detention*
>
> *Ms. Li Juhua* from Huangpi District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province was
> detained twice and sent to a forced labor camp three times over the last ten
> years due to her Falun Gong practice. She was imprisoned for a total of four
> years, her home was ransacked twice, and the authorities constantly harassed
> her family. She is currently being held at the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in
> Wuhan City. It has been reported that she has become completely emaciated,
> has difficulty walking and seems disoriented and unable to comprehend
> things.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Liu Weishan Tortured, Paralyzed and Mentally Confused*
>
> *Ms. Liu Weishan*, 51, was last arrested in September of 2002 for
> distributing Falun Gong related materials, and imprisoned at various places
> in Xiangfan City, Hebei Province. After she went on a hunger strike--her
> only means of protest, she was brutally beaten and tortured by repeated and
> vicious force-feedings. She was given forced injections of unknown and
> unnecessary drugs and became mentally disoriented very soon thereafter.
> Currently, she is reported to be paralyzed and bed-ridden. Her muscles have
> atrophied, and she is completely emaciated and can no longer communicate in
> a meaningful way.
> ------------------------------
>
> *Ms. Tang Min Tortured at a Mental Hospital*
>
> *Ms. Tang Min* from Changsha City, Hunan Province was forced to stay at a
> brainwashing center in 2004 and then taken to a mental hospital because she
> refused to renounce her Falun Gong practice. In May 2009, she was again
> taken to a mental hospital in Hunan Province where she was injected every
> two weeks with an unknown drug that made her shiver with coldness and caused
> anxiety.
>
>  *Ms. Tang Min*
> ------------------------------
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