(Clearwisdom.net)

Ma Zhongbo lives in Minhe Village, Ashihe Township, Heilongjiang Province. In 1998, at the age of 27, she experienced leg pain. Consultations with specialists from the Heilongjiang Province Hospital, Harbin Medical University and the Harbin North Femur Head Necrosis Research Institute revealed severe necrosis of both femur heads. She went to several hospitals for treatment, but in vain. Moreover, she spent thousands of yuan for medicine. Toward the end of 1998, her legs were in extreme pain and paralyzed. Due to severe pain she could only crawl around and could not take care of her daily life. At that time the family was poverty-stricken. She sold her house and took her young daughter to her parents' home.

Facing the broken family and incurable illness, she was profoundly depressed. She intended to meet her family members and relatives for the last time during the Lunar New Year of 1999 and then commit suicide so that she could escape the torment of her illness. Her relatives wanted to try to help her. They gave her a copy of Zhuan Falun and told her to read it carefully, and said that Falun Gong is miraculous for healing illness and keeping people fit.

She finished reading Zhuan Falun in two-and-a-half days in January 1999. She excitedly said that it was a precious book, and she was deeply moved by what was written in the book. She understood the reason why she had developed this incurable disease although she was so young. Furthermore, she understood a lot she had never known before. The third day after reading the book she went to the Falun Gong practice site. During the first three days she felt physical and mental changes. The morning of the fifth day she felt completely healthy. She asked someone to bring her shoes. She put them on and left the sickbed. She exclaimed loudly, "I have gotten well! My legs don't hurt anymore! I can walk now!"" People around her were astonished. Her sister commented on the terror of her illness, but she had recovered so quickly. Seeing her tremendous changes, many of her relatives entered through the door of cultivation.

When her husband found she had really recovered and regained the courage to live, he took her back home. She studied the Fa and did the exercises as well. At the same time, she complied with Master's requirement to be a good person according to the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." In addition, she was strict with herself, forgave her husband, changed her attitude toward older people and got rid of the vice of playing Mah-Jong and gambling. Her entire family was very happy.

But the good times did not last long. On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong. Although she practiced Falun Gong for a short time, she knew that the TV broadcasts were false. Rational thinking made her conclude that all the TV propaganda were lies, deception and framing.

In April 2000 she went to the Harbin North Femur Head Necrosis Research Institute to pick up her CT-scan results. When the doctor familiar with her illness noticed her walking around he was quite astonished. Based on many years' clinical experience he said, "You were not cured by drugs. Tell me, which folk prescription has cured your illness?" Ma Zhongbo replied, "I did not use any folk prescriptions. I was cured by practicing Falun Gong!" Knowing her complete medical history and the excruciating pain she had endured, and now seeing her healthy, surprised him. He said, "Since it's such a miracle, why don't you speak up for Falun Gong since the TV programs are saying that Falun Gong is lying and can't cure illnesses?" After hearing that she felt ashamed of herself for not speaking up for Falun Gong early.

On the way back from Harbin, Ma Zhongbo thought it over and then knew she must speak up for Falun Gong and her Master.

She took her CT-scan result and diagnosis and went to the local Appeals Office. She explained the facts that Falun Gong had saved her life and her family interactions. But the local Appeals Office officials took her to 610 Office. After officials there heard her story, they took her to the police department. The police could not justify the slanderous propaganda, but took her to her home and warned her not to appeal for Falun Gong.

She decided to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Learning of her decision her father said, "You have to go, if no one else does. Dafa saved your life and your family."

In June 2000 she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested and taken back to the No. 2 Detention Center in Acheng City where she was illegally detained for two months. She held a protest hunger strike during detention and demanded her unconditional release. In nine days of hunger strike, she was savagely force-fed. Once the guard inserted a tube into her nostrils seven times. Because the torture caused stomach bleeding, the police released her after extorting 500 yuan from her family.

In October 2000, she went to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong. Police officers at the Zhongnanhai (Communist regime compound) Security Bureau shocked her with electric batons, but she defied their demands to renounce Falun Gong. In addition she shouted, "Falun Gong is good!" She was again taken back to Acheng City and was then sentenced to one year of forced labor.

The guards at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp tried to force her to slander Dafa and Master. In order to "reform" her they sent her to the male division several times. The guards and inmates cruelly tortured her mentally and physically. They forced her to sit on a metal chair for three days and deprived her of sleep for several days. Four male guards and one female guard dragged her across the floor while hitting and kicking her. Her back and feet bled.

She was held at the male division for nine days. During that period, they handcuffed her wrists to an upper bunk bed. They put her down after she lost consciousness. When she came to, they continued to torture her. In addition, she was made to squat for two nights and one day. They also made her sit on a hard stool for days at a time. The flesh on her buttocks festered and seeped pus and blood. Her right foot began to fester and swelled so severely she could not put her shoe on. She was unable to walk for more than 20 days and had a high fever.

Her breast reddened and swelled from torture. Her body was covered with scabies. The severe pain prevented her from sleeping. Despite this the guards forced her to do forced labor during the daytime. One day, a large amount of blood and pus dripped from her left breast. She had virtually no breast tissue left. The labor camp authorities realized the seriousness of her condition and had to send her to a hospital in Harbin City, where she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The Wanjia Forced Labor Camp did not want to take any responsibility, so they informed her family to take her home.

At that time, she was emaciated and extremely weak. Her body was covered with scabies and pus from her breast. All her relatives and fellow villagers who came to see her predicted that she was not going to live. Her husband felt the same way. He was indifferent and disliked her.

When Zhongbo thought of the tortures she had suffered and the situation she had to face at home, she realized how difficult it is to be a good person. Sometimes she wanted to commit suicide to escape the hardships. However, when she heard sarcastic comments such as "a Falun Gong practitioner also developed breast cancer; she was not going to live, and Falun Gong could not cure her," and her neighbor even saying, "Didn't you say Falun Gong cured your necrosis? If Falun Gong can cure your breast cancer, the whole village will believe in Falun Gong," she decided to live, no matter how hard it got; otherwise, people who did not understand the truth would believe the evil lies even more, and the Chinese regime would use her case as an incident to frame Falun Gong.

A fellow practitioner took her to her home for studying the Fa and doing the exercises with her. She asked her if she wanted to do the exercises. Her body was trembling and her swollen breast was still infected and running pus. She had lumps under her armpits and on her arms. She thought, "I'm a Falun Gong practitioner and Master is watching over me." She said, "Yes, let's practice." After she went through four sets of exercises she felt relaxed and energized, and the swelling on her breasts, arms and armpits disappeared!

The fellow practitioner's husband noticed the change. He gave the thumbs-up sign and said, "If I had not seen this with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it, no matter who told me. I was actually afraid that you would die in my home." She completely recovered after about 20 days of doing the exercises and studying the Fa. Her left breast gradually developed new tissues. Except for a large scar, the size and shape of her new left breast was the same as the original.

She decided to go home the same day her father-in-law was celebrating his 66th birthday, and the house was filled with friends and relatives. They wondered if she had died because no one had heard from her and they were awestruck when they saw her, robust and beaming. Her father-in-law said, "You recovered again! Falun Gong is so miraculous!" Her neighbor added, "I really believe in Falun Gong. Falun Gong practice quickly cured this incurable illness. Falun Gong is really good!" People who knew of her miracle no longer believed the slanderous TV-broadcasts and even encouraged other people to stop watching. They said the Communist regime was telling lies and persecuting good people.

Ma Zhongbo became unexpectedly pregnant when she was 36 years old and gave birth to a daughter in March 2007. The day after, the mother had sufficient breast milk to feed the newborn, even in her previously cancerous left breast. If Ma Zhongbo had not practiced Falun Gong, she could not have given birth and breastfeed her daughter; it is most likely she would have died several years earlier.

It is obvious that persecuting good people has led to countless disasters and lowered social morality. It is inevitable that the heavens will eliminate the CCP according to the principle, "Good will be rewarded and evil will be punished."

July 19, 2007