The "Olympic Spirit" of Chinese Brutality -- Police Chief Beats Yilishen
Ant Farmer
Police Chief Beats Yilishen Ant Farmer
By Fang Xiao
Epoch Times Staff
Mar 06, 2008
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Ant farmers mass at the Yilishen Tianxi Group headquarters in Shenyang,
seeking recompense for the money lost in what turned out to be a giant
government-promoted pyramid scheme. (Photo courtesy of ant farmers)
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[Editor's Note: Yilishen Tianxi Group, a Shenyang-based company that
sold ant-derived health-care products, went bankrupt in November 2007.
The principle cause of the bankruptcy was disagreements between
cor****ate and local officials.
Before the bankruptcy, many high-ranking government figures urged people
to invest in Yilishen. Over an eight-year period, the company had
recruited about million people for its ant farms, collecting about 15
billion yuan (US$2.11 billion).
Yilishen workers who had lost their lives' savings in the bankruptcy
staged demonstrations around the company headquarters and provincial
government offices, demanding government assistance in recovering their
investments. In response, the military was called out to disperse the
demonstrators. News of that and subsequent protests has been tightly
suppressed by the Chinese regime.
On February 16, Al Jazeera English interviewed Shenyang ant farmer Liu
Yang, at his home. The Al Jazeera's video re****t of the Yilishen scandal
has been made public via Youtube.
The event described below occurred after the release of Al Jazeera's
re****t.]
On March 1, at least 3,000 ant farmers gathered at the headquarters of
Yilishen Tianxi Group in Shenyang City, Laioning Province to seek
company officials' help in recovering the farmers' lost money. In
response the head of Shenyang's Public Security Bureau led plainclothes
policemen in forcibly dispersing the ant farmers Liu Yang and his wife
were both beaten by police.
An Epoch Times re****ter contacted Liu Yang on that evening. Liu Yang
said he thought that the Security Chief, Kong, had brought plainclothes
policemen to identify him and then beat him and his wife, in revenge
upon him for exposing the Yilishen scandal to the whole world via Al
Jazeera English.
Liu Yang said that during the demonstration, the jeep in which Kong rode
stopped right in front of Liu. Kong pointed at him and told three
plainclothes officers, "That is Liu Yang." Then several plainclothes
seized him and dragged him to a police car; at the same time many more
policemen arrived at the scene. When Liu's wife tried to protect her
husband, one policeman grabbed her and threw her on the floor.
About a dozen policemen took turns beating and kicking Liu Yang and his
wife, who tried to protect each other against the violence of the
policemen. When Liu Yang forced into the police car, Kong grabbed Liu
Yang's wife's hair and dragged her back, and then slapped her face three
times.
Liu Yang said, "When those policemen saw their head himself beating us
up, they started beating us up even worse; then they threw me inside the
police car."
The entire incident of Kong and the police beating Liu and his wife was
videotaped by a journalist from a foreign TV network; this was confirmed
by another ant farmer who had initially called the station.
The ant farmers said that the purpose of their going to Shenyang was to
get their money back because authorities have frozen their payment for
more than 50 days. The farmers are in need of money for their children's
tuition and for buying seeds and fertilizer for their crops, and for
other essentials.
The regional police officials had warned the farmers not to go to
Beijing to appeal during the "Two Sessions" (the annual Communist Party
Congress) or to Shenyang to seek redress.
Ant farmers from Liaoning's Benxi City, who were the first arrivals at
Yilishen's headquarters on March 1, said that when they arrived, at 8:00
a.m., the police were already on the site. As soon as groups
demonstrators arrived, they were herded into waiting buses and taken to
Sujiatun Stadium, where their names and other information was collected.
The re****ter called the Shenyang Public Security Bureau on that evening
and asked if the head's last name was Kong, but the person who answered
the phone refused to confirm or deny. He told the re****ter that the
Bureau Chief was only available by appointment and only met with
representatives of certain departments.
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