In the end, Ms. Luo did not escape the deadly persecution. On December 5, 2002, Nainai took Ying to the city of Guangzhou to see her mother’s body for the last time.

Family and friends had withheld the news of Ms. Luo’s death from grandma Popo – Ms. Luo’s mother, who lives in the city of Haikou – for fear that she was too frail to bear the shock. No one thought of explaining the delicate situation to Ying, merely one and a half years old at the time, but she surprised everyone.

When Popo asked: "Where is mother?" Ying answered sincerely: "Mama is working in Guangzhou."

When Popo was not around and other people asked: "Where is mother?" Ying always answered: "Mama was killed by bad people!" "Why not let Popo know?" "She would cry, sadly cry."

Maybe that was just coincidence; the girl may be too young to understand it at all.

One day, at another practitioner’s home, Ying saw a booklet, "Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Guangzhou." An adult turned to a page and asked Ying whose photo was there. Ying answered calmly: "This is mama," and then went aside to play. The adults at the room looked at each other and felt relieved; it was better for Ying not to understand death and not be hurt.

They were wrong. After the adults went into another room, Ying picked up the booklet, turned to the page with her mother’s photograph, and let tears silently stream down her cheeks.

When the adults saw this, they all cried. This little girl, one and a half years old, already knew to be considerate of others.

Perhaps you are curious how this lovely girl has come to be this way.

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Ms. Luo Zhixiang, born on October 6, 1973, in the city of Kaikou, was an engineer of the Guangdong Agriculture and Construction Industry Corporation. She began to practice Falun Gong in 1997, and was known as a kind and hard-working person. In April 1999, Ms. Luo met Mr. Huang and fell in love.

July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin launched the persecution against Falun Gong. The young lovers went to Beijing together to appeal to the central government to stop the persecution, and both were arrested. Mr. Huang was detained for one month, and Ms. Luo was fired by her company.

In April 2000, the young couple married. Half a year later, on the night of October 29, 2000, Mr. Huang was arrested for passing out flyers exposing the persecution and was savagely beaten. After 135 days of detention, Mr. Huang was sentenced to two years of forced labor on March 15, 2001.

At the time of Mr. Huang’s arrest, Ms. Luo was already pregnant. On May 18, 2001, she gave birth to Huang Ying, and gave her the nickname "Kaixin," or "Happy" in Chinese. The local "610 Office" shadowed her all the time, threatening to kidnap her to a brainwashing class. To escape the persecution, Ms. Luo left Ying with Nainai and went into hiding. The local "610 Office" posted a bounty of 30,000 Chinese Yuan for Ms. Luo’s arrest.

Mr. Huang was released on December 30, 2001, and found his wife in May 2002. The couple had been married for two years, but separated for one and a half years. Their daughter was already one year old, but had not yet seen her father. How much they wanted to be united with their daughter, and live a peaceful life.

The police, however, tracked them down. On November 20, 2002, at 1 p.m., the police broke into their apartment and took the couple away. That night, they were locked into two iron cages. At that time, Ms. Luo was three months pregnant with a second child.

To protest the arbitrary detention and the ill treatment, they went on a hunger strike, and both suffered force-feeding.

Mr. Huang recalled: "[The police] forced a rubber tube into my nose, while five others pinned down my head and four limbs. When they finished, they pulled out the tube, and it was covered with my blood. They force-fed us every other day, me in the morning and my wife in the afternoon."

On November 28, 2002, the police told Mr. Huang that because his wife was pregnant, she would be released. Mr. Huang never saw her again.

The police deceived Mr. Huang, and handed Ms. Luo to the local "610 Office." The "610 Office" then sent Ms. Luo to a brainwashing class. On November 29, 2002, the authorities sent her to a hospital. Two days later, grandma Nainai was notified that Ms. Luo was on the verge of death. Nainai and Ying arrived in Guangzhou City on December 5, but Ms. Luo was already dead. She had passed away, along with her unborn child, at age 29.

The authorities claimed that Ms. Luo had committed suicide by jumping from a building. Before her death, she had been on a hunger strike for eleven days, and was even too weak to walk. There were also three persons assigned to monitor her at all times; it would have been impossible for her to find a chance to jump from a building. An autopsy showed that no bones were broken and that the cause of death was brain damage. For this reason, Ms. Luo’s family demanded an explanation, but the authorities refused.

The authorities informed Mr. Huang of his wife’s death on April 2, 2003, four months after the fact. He was released on December 16, 2003. The local "610 Office," however, continued to follow him. In July 2004, details of Ms. Luo’s death were reported overseas. Upon learning this, the local "610 Office" wanted to arrest Mr. Huang again. To escape further persecution, he left China and took refuge in Thailand. He is now applying for United Nations refugee status.

On Dec. 24, 2003, Kaixin met her father for the first time, after he released from labor camp.	The inside corner of a room in the house where Huang Ying lives with her grandparents.

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Ever since Mr. Huang left Ying, the little girl tells grandma Nainai that she misses her father. She also kisses her mother’s photo often and tells Nainai, "I saw Mom. She is so beautiful. Mom comes to see me."

Ying’s mother gave her the nickname "Happy." Can she be really happy? Will anyone who has read this story help her to reunite with her father?

The persecution of Falun Gong has taken Ying’s mother away from her and forced her and her father apart. There are many other children like little Ying. Will we ever find out just how many?