Chinese Torture – 21st Century Style

Many years ago, the phrase ‘Chinese Water Torture’ involved four main methods. Firstly, the victim would be strapped down horizontal and was subjected to a steady drip of water onto his head. This could last for days on end and usually ended up driving the victim insane.Another method was where the victim was laid horizontally onto a bed of fast-growing bamboo shoots, which were then watered. The shoots pierced the victim, resulting in a slow and painful death.

A third, more devastatingly brutal method, was where the victim was force-fed bamboo shoots and water until he could not take it any more. The shoots grew inside the victim, until they eventually protruded through the skin.

And lastly, the victim was simply force-fed water until he drowned internally.
Fast-forward several decades later and what do we find?

Evidence has surfaced in recent years of over 100 torture methods being employed against Falun Gong practitioners in China’s labour camps, detention centers, and mental hospitals. Yes, you read correctly. If you follow Falun Gong, you are deemed mentally ill. This is a quite sickening in this modern day and age but it is yet another illustration as to the lengths the Chinese regime will go in stamping out any form of religious worship.
Of course the ultimate goal is to completely eradicate the Falun Gong either by coercing its practitioners to renounce their belief, or by physically destroying them if they refuse.

The tactics range from long-term sleep deprivation, being surrounded with loudspeakers demonising their practice 24 hours a day, to being force-fed with human feces, or shocked and even raped with electric batons.

Pictured below is a disturbing example of the types of burning torture carried out by the Chinese police/security services. Numerous reports have emerged from China of police and labour camp authorities burning Falun Gong practitioners with cigarettes, car lighters, irons, and hot metal rods as a way to force them to give up their beliefs. Sometimes, hot irons are heated to be red-hot, then used to burn practitioners’ flesh or pierce their nipples. Many have reported being burned repeatedly with cigarettes, including on their faces, necks, and genitals.

Take the case of Tan Yong Je, 27, who was severely burned with red-hot irons.

On June 2, 2001, while Tan Yong Je was being illegally held at the Luobo Labour Camp in Guangdong Province, three police officers tortured him. First they beat him and tried to force him to write “repentance statements” denouncing Falun Gong. However, Mr. Tan did not give in. Later, the guards tied him to a pillar. One guard heated up a rusted iron rod on an electric burner until the rod turned red, then pressed the rod against Mr. Tan’s legs in over a dozen places while asking: “Do you still want to practice Falun Gong?”

He still never gave in. Mr. Tan was seriously burned. His legs shook and he cried out loudly. He was in so much pain that he lost control of his bowel functions. One can only imagine at the total degradation of the helpless, innocent man.

The guards later dragged him back to his small cell and locked him in. He could neither walk nor sleep because of the pain. Later, the guards ordered him to work taking charge of an orchard. They thought that this sentiment would butter the man up for probable later, more brutal tactics. However, Mr. Tan made a daring escape and lived to tell his tale. He arrived in Hong Kong on June 10 and fled to the United States.

Miss Wang Hua Jun - burned alive by prison authorities

36-year-old Wang Hua Jun lived in Fengjiashan, Macheng City, Hubei Province. Police seized her on the morning of April 18, 2001 because she was protesting about the authorities’ persecution of her cult.



The police beat her so viciously all day long that by 11 o’clock that night she was on the verge of death. Eye witnesses said that practitioner Wang was still lying on the ground when the fire was started. When the fire started to burn, she moved, trying to get up. The police officers at the scene panicked because they were afraid she would somehow escape and speak the truth. But by this time Miss Wang was so exhausted, due to being so severely tortured, that she could no longer stand up.

Finally, when the fire had gone out completely, it was found that the front of her body was burned while her back did not have any signs of burning. Moreover, there were deep knife wounds on her throat and the back of her head! Police told witnesses, such as one female street cleaner, that the woman had set herself on fire. A “suicide note” miraculously still un-burnt by the flames was found inches from her charred body, along with her ID, which the police had confiscated months earlier.

These are just two cases of torture carried out by the Chinese police authorities. There will be more posted on this blog as time goes by . . .