The Slaughter by Ethan Gutmann

Author:Ethan Gutmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2014-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Wang Yuzhi was outside the yard, facing the door to her mother's house. In past dreams she had tried to go to that door many times. There had been a pack of dogs in front of the house waiting, ready to raise the alarm and attack her and take her away. Now the dogs were gone. There were just kindly old people standing there smiling at her, just standing at her mother's doorway. Now they were opening the door for her.20

The question for Wang Yuzhi waking up was: Why was she still alive? They had been force-feeding her for months now. Just recently she wasn't getting tortured as intensely as some of the other practitioners—one of the women had a piss-soaked mop stuffed into her mouth the other day—but she wasn't getting off easy either. Still, on balance, she sensed a change in the air. She had become a problem to the detention center. She knew her screams were becoming legendary.

Martyrdom is the wild card of Chinese history. The Chinese leadership was torn between a final solution and trying to convert practitioners from Falun Gong through transformation. That's why it had become a chess game between the practitioner and the torturer. Both sides knew that each new practitioner murder had a chance of being reported, giving the state a pyrrhic victory at best.

But these games were not what the party wanted either. A woman like Wang had become toxic waste: difficult to bury, dangerous to keep around, and problematic to release.21 The ambiguity of the government's position was expressed in an increasingly common procedure: the police would suddenly free a practitioner, having tortured him or her up to imminent death. In the early days that worked like the Sicilian warning of delivering a severed head on the doorstep of a village. Now, with global websites like Minghui.org, a severed head was potentially bad publicity.

Death quotas played a role, too, Wang knew. Every center had them: a certain amount of practitioners were allowed to die, but no more. But Wang wasn't at all sure that the quotas were as strict following the Tiananmen immolation. Maybe the reason she had survived was that the police still stood to gain a thousand yuan if they transformed her. Split up between thirteen guys—was that seventy yuan worth getting vomited on every day? No, Wang was sure that it came down to the martyr problem. And she had family abroad, so it was potentially global martyrdom. Even the guards knew that Chinese history was full of sudden revolutions and collapses. If Falun Gong was rehabilitated and the guards were identified…Wang wrote off 75 percent of the police as just plain evil—they actually wanted you to die. But about 25 percent of the police knew that the party creates these persecutions, these disturbances. And if the party falls, Wang knew that she would be a hero, a martyr. The evil guards would be incarcerated. Maybe a few of these policemen even wanted to see the party regime fall.

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