(Minghui.org) Since the persecution of Falun Gong started in July 1999, countless Falun Gong practitioners were harassed, arrested, detained, tortured, and/or had their organs harvested while they were alive. To date, more than 5,200 death cases have been confirmed. Yet this is believed to be the tip of the iceberg of the entire death toll from the persecution.
In Jianwei County, Sichuan Province, a high school girl went missing 10 years ago and her parents worry day and night whether she had been victimized in the persecution.
Ms. Cai Xumei, then 17, was a first year student and also the class monitor of Class 7 at Xiaogu High School in Jianwei County. She lived in a warehouse-turned dormitory outside of school and she lived upstairs in the first room in the hallway.
Ms. Cai went missing between late night on July 2, 2015 and early morning of July 3, 2015. Some classmates saw her on the night of July 2 during self-study period but she disappeared in the morning. Her teacher, Mr. Li Yuanzhong, contacted her family at about 5 p.m. on July 3, 2015.
When Ms. Cai’s family arrived at the dormitory, they saw her clothes and trunk and immediately went to the police station to report her disappearance. Officers from Xiaogu Police Station refused to open a case for her after they found a Falun Gong book in her trunk.
Ms. Cai’s family returned to the police station the next day to request for her case to be opened. The police said that they were busy and they were only interested in collecting information about Ms. Cai’s practicing Falun Gong.
On the third day, July 5, one of the family members went to the police station again. This time, the police said that Ms. Cai had committed suicide. The family member pressed the police, “Do you have any supporting evidence? Where is her body? You should at least find her body before concluding that she committed suicide.” Only then did the police agree to search for her. They took away her photo and information relevant to the case.
Ms. Cai’s family went to the police station ten days later to request an update. The police pressured the family to tell them where to look and said that the family would have to pay their travel expenses. Because the family couldn’t afford to do that, the police stopped working on the case.
It has been ten years since Ms. Cai’s disappearance and her family are still waiting for her to come back home.
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