10年前以受中国政府迫害为名申请难民。10年后准备卖掉在加拿大的鸡院回国前被杀。
看到裆中央的说法是对的：中国的人权在过去10年已经有了很大进步----黄金10年啊！
看到裆中央的说法是对的：中国的人权在过去10年已经有了很大进步----黄金10年啊！
Dismemberment victim lived in fear, refugee documents show
Guang Hua Liu
Guang Hua Liu said in her refugee claim that she'd had three children and was being forced to pay a large fine and undergo sterilization under China's strict one-child policy when she decided to flee.
Refugee documents belonging to dismemberment victim Guang Hua Liu show she may have fled her home country of China after violating the country’s strict birth control policies and borrowed some of the money to get here from a loan shark.
In a refugee claim obtained by the Star, the 41-year-old mother of three asked the Canadian government to help keep her family together in a safe country.
But 10 years after her arrival in Canada, that dream is gone. Liu has been identified as the victim of a grisly and mysterious murder.
Last week, parts of Liu’s body were found in separate areas of the GTA: her head, right foot and hands along the Credit River in Mississauga, and other parts in West Highland Creek, a short walk from her Scarborough home.
Her torso and some other body parts are still missing, but police have stopped the search to focus on what happened to her.
Liu landed at Vancouver International Airport on Feb. 10, 2002, and filed immediately for refugee status. She moved to Toronto the next day, according to her refugee claim.
She told Canadian authorities that police and family control officials in China discovered she had more than one child and tried to arrest her.
In accordance with China’s population control policies, Chinese citizens are penalized for having more than one child.
“My husband and I discussed that we need to go to a country that has freedoms and personal rights, so our family can be together in the future,” she wrote in Chinese in her refugee claim.
Born on Feb. 24, 1971, in Changle, in Fujian province in southeast China, Liu attended school only to the age of 15. She wrote in her refugee claim that she owned a barbershop in China and also worked as a “warehouse keeper” in a hotel.
Two months after turning 19, she married her first husband in a “traditional ceremony.” They had a son, Dong Hao Liu, who would now be 21. An adult son who Canadian neighbours say goes by the name Danny lived with Guang Hua Liu in her Scarborough townhouse.
Liu and her first husband divorced six years after their marriage and Liu remarried in 1998.
It was the first marriage for her new husband, Chang Qing Shi.
“As my present husband was not previously married, he was allowed to have a child,” Liu wrote in her refugee claim. “In March 1999, I gave birth to my second child.”
Shortly after, Liu wrote, she was “forced to wear an IUD,” an intrauterine device that acts as birth control.
Despite this, she became pregnant again four months later. She gave birth to her third child in hiding, and left him in the care of relatives.
In December 2001, Chinese family planning officials discovered Liu’s third child and attempted to arrest her, her refugee claim stated.
She claimed they told her husband they would have to pay a fine of 30,000 RMB ($4,683 in today’s Canadian dollars) and she would have to be sterilized.
“They ordered my husband to submit me within one week,” she wrote. “I did not want to be sterilized.”
Out of fear he would also be sterilized, Shi joined his wife in hiding.
Liu wrote that the family planning officials and police came back to her home looking for her after the couple didn’t pay the fine.
“There are no human rights in China. People have no right to say anything.”
They ordered her arrested but Liu claimed her father-in-law, mother-in-law, uncle and neighbours blocked the entrance so she and her husband could flee through the back door.
The couple decided she would go to Canada first. Her husband stayed behind, hiding with their two children.
The documents say Liu took a boat to nearby Taiwan. A day later, she flew to Vancouver via Thailand.
In her refugee documents, she referenced an agent who helped her come to Canada. It’s not clear how she ended up in Toronto.
A record of examination filed with Citizenship and Immigration Canada after she arrived says she came with $500 U.S.
She told an examining officer at Vancouver International Airport’s Canada Immigration Centre that she paid $10,000 U.S. to come to Canada, borrowing the money from friends, family and a loan shark.
“I am going to work here and pay off from my wages,” she said when the officer asked how she would repay the money she borrowed.
The final outcome of Liu’s refugee case is unclear due to privacy stipulations under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Police, however, said Liu was a Canadian citizen at the time of her death.
Liu spent the first few months of her life in Canada living in a small townhouse in the Carlaw and Dundas Sts. area.
On Friday, the longtime owner of Liu’s first home did not immediately recognize Lu from a photograph, saying she has had many tenants through the years. But when presented with a second photograph, of a more youthful-looking Liu, the owner gasped.
“Her? She was killed? This woman?” she asked in Mandarin, peering closely at the picture.
The owner, who asked not to be named, said she barely knew Liu, who lived there for only about three months before moving out. She said Liu told her she had a child with a first husband and two with a second husband.
The owner said she got the impression that Liu’s husband was from a poor family and the woman planned on eventually bringing him and her children to Canada.
It would have been difficult for Liu to make a life for herself in Canada as a single mother with poor job prospects and no English skills, the owner added. She doesn’t know what became of Liu after she moved out.
Little is publicly known about the woman’s time in Canada.
Liu worked for a time at Asia Studios, one of the city’s 25 licensed body rub parlours. She was first licensed as a body rub practitioner in September 2010, according to records from Municipal Licensing and Standards.
Body rub parlours are licensed to offer sensual services, explained Det. Const. Kevin Georgopoulos, a plainclothes Toronto police officer in North York who investigates body rub parlours and holistic centres.
A city bylaw allows the rubbing, massaging or stimulating of a person’s body for non-medical or therapeutic treatments.
The parlour Liu worked at is on the second floor of a two-storey commercial building on Warden Ave. and Sheppard Ave. E.
On Wednesday, the dark reception area was staffed by a young Asian woman in pink and black panties with a push-up bra and see-through negligee.
The masseuse examined a photo of Liu. She gasped as her hand flew to her chest.
“It’s so sad,” said the woman, who did not want to give her name. “She didn’t deserve this. She was nice and quiet.”
Bei-Bei Ni, who has owned the place since 1993, said Liu had worked there for about a year, until mid-April.
“Her life was good enough that she opened her own business,” she said. “Of course we’re all sad . . . she was a nice, normal person. She wasn’t a whacko.”
But Liu became distant near the end of her stint at the parlour, Ni said, rarely acknowledging anyone or even saying hello.
Ni didn’t know Liu very well. She was surprised when she heard on the news that Liu had three children, because Liu had mentioned only one child. When Liu left Asia Studios in April, Ni never heard from her again.
Liu started preparations for her new business and got a holistic practitioner licence on April 13, one of 421 licensed by the city.
Police say holistic centres are licensed to offer therapeutic services, but attendants must be dressed professionally and cannot touch or expose “specified areas” such as genitals and nipples.
In late May, Liu bought Forget Me Not Health Centre, but neighbours told the city the place seemed closed much of the time.
“I never saw anyone get in or get out,” said Jong Soon Suh, owner of a drycleaning business in the same complex.
Suh said it’s likely someone was entering the spa because the curtain was sometimes caught in the door.
City officials repeatedly tried to connect with Liu, but found the doors locked at each visit. An official finally got Liu on the phone, who said her business was closed and she was looking to sell. Liu told people she planned on joining a husband in China, but it is unclear if she was still married to the man she left behind.
Liu was last seen in Toronto on Aug. 10, when friends dropped her off outside Forget Me Not. She was reportedly meeting a prospective buyer.
Police have indicated the murder is an isolated incident and haven’t said if they have any suspects or whether her death is linked to organized crime.
On Friday, the owner of Liu’s first Canadian home said she had given little thought to the woman she last saw a decade ago.
The last time they spoke, Liu told her she hoped to bring her family to Canada. When told of Liu’s disturbing death, the homeowner was overcome with sadness.
“Hearing all of this,” she said, “it makes me want to cry.”
