http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org/downloads/dragontext.pdf
and
http://www.laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=3D1919
STATEMENT OF ZHOU ****U YON
(ZHOU ****U YON, 6/10/1998)
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STATEMENT OF
ZHOU ****U YON, VICTIM OF CHINA=A1=AFS PLANNED-BIRTH POLICY
before the
SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
of the
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
of the
UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
June 10, 1998
My name is Zhou ****u Yon, and I am a native of Fujian Province, China.
I was born on August 5, 1973. My parents are Zhou Hai Guan and Chen Yi
Jiao. On June 15, 1993, I boarded a ****p in Guangzhou and fled to the
United States.
When I was eleven, I met my boyfriend, Chen Jian Lin. We grew up
together. In May 1993, when I was nineteen, I was found to be
pregnant. We were both happy, and went to the government office to
register our marriage. We were but were refused, however, because I
was under twenty. Later on, the government found I was pregnant.
Feeling unwell, I had gone to the hospital. The physician who examined
me re****ted my pregnancy to the government. As I had no marriage
certificate and no government-approved "birth-allowed certificate," my
pregnancy was illegal and I could not have a child. The government
sent several guys to my home. I heard a group of men at the door, so I
knew it was the government agents who had come to take me away for
abortion. I hid in my room. Five men came to my door and broke it down
(one of the men stayed outside as a guard). Once inside my room, they
grabbed me and handcuffed me, then they took me to the hospital. They
locked me up for hours in a small room in the hospital. They gave me a
pill, and they were to come back in about thirty minutes with an
injection. They forced me to swallow the pill, but I escaped the
injection. My boyfriend knew I was locked up. He gave RMB1,000 to a
nurse for her to open the window. She opened the window and I jumped
out. Then my boyfriend took me by a car directly to Guangzhou. We
wanted the child very much. We paid RMB5,000 to board on a ****p. I
hoped that by leaving China I would be able to find a safe place to
give birth to my child.
On June 15, 1993, when I departed for the United States, I was two
months pregnant. Because of sea sickness and sickness related to my
pregnancy, I was unconscious during nearly all of my time on the ****p
and ate very little. When I was arrested by the United States
government on July 19, 1993, I did not clearly understand what was
happening to me. I lost my child in a San Diego hospital. I had been
carrying it for three months old. I was so sorry that I was in poor
health and lost my first child. I kept thinking, "I lost it=A1=AD I lost
it=A1=AD"
When I was in my hometown in China, I saw how a large number of
pregnant women were hiding anywhere they could. Some of them were nine
months pregnant, but were forced to undergo abortion procedures just
the same=A1=AAsimply because they had no "birth-allowed certificates." The
government dismantled the houses of some of them and made them
homeless. The he government=A1=AFs planned-birth policy is extremely
stern. In my native village, I saw how many women were looking for
places to hide at night, because the government usually catches people
at night. All this made me terrified. Even here, in the United States,
I am scared. I dared say nothing about the Chinese government, because
if I said I was persecuted by the Chinese government for violating its
planned-birth policy and fled to the United States, the Chinese
government would persecute my family members. On the other hand, I do
not know whether I will stay in this free country or will be
repatriated back to China. That was why, on some occasions, I said I
fled China because my parents turned me out and, on other occasions,
said I fled because my boyfriend did not want the child. The fact that
it was my first child was the reason I left. I was so happy when I was
carrying it and kept thinking I was going to be a mother. That was why
I decided to turn to the sea, to flee somewhere, just to keep my
child. I was so sorry when I learned my child was gone.
Thank you all. Thank you, my American friends. They love me. Among
them is a Bakersfield prison officer, Ruth Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
Plamquist, and Mr. and Mrs. Peterson. They gave me to Our Lord. Now,
my family members know I am in the United States. Although bad Chinese
guys extorted money them, and they lost the equivalent of more than
ten thousand American dollars, a few days ago they said happily to me
on the phone: "everything will be okay! Keep going!" If my baby had
lived, he would be almost five today. I hope that I can have a baby
again, I wish I can be a mother sometime in the future. I pray for
it.
Thank you.
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