Recently, The Epoch Times acquired a confidential document from the 6-10 Office bureau in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. The document ordered a province-wide “concentrated and bottom-up investigation” requiring “registration and profile collection on each individual Falun Gong practitioner.” These new orders imply that many “untransformed” Falun Gong practitioners remain in Tangshan, and that the 6-10 Office intends to continue its persecution policies.
“Transformation” is the euphemism the 6-10 Office uses for forcing Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their beliefs, described by numerous Falun Gong practitioners as extreme forms of brainwashing and torture.
The source inside China who sent the document said that the 6-10 Office in Tangshan city, Hebei province, will begin another round of targeted persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, an operation codenamed “Operation Spring Thunder,” following orders from the 610 Office headquarters in Beijing.
The document requires that the CCP committee of each township, county and city district, as well as agencies under the direct control of the district governments, conduct a concentrated, detailed investigation on Falun Gong practitioners in their area. The goal is to have a clear count of the Falun Gong practitioners who have refused to be “transformed,” their educational background, intelligence level, skill level, whether they have been imprisoned, fired from work, or terminated from their schools, and whether they were formerly coordinators of Falun Gong assistance centers.
