Spiegel Online: Chinese Prison Camps: The Dark System
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, an estimated 50 million people have been interned in prison camps, making it the largest system of forced labor, torture and brainwashing the world has ever known. At the height of the system, more than 1,000 facilities were alleged to have stretched across the entire country.
In November 2013, almost exactly five years ago, China's Communist Party officially abandoned the sinister sites. But in truth many of the old facilities still exist, often under a new name. It is believed that up to 1 million people are currently being interned in prison camps in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.
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WNU Editor: The above video is a Wall Street Journal report from 3 months ago. Here is a recent article on what life is like in China's gulags .... Muslim woman describes torture and beatings in China detention camp: ‘I begged them to kill me’ (The Independent).
2 comments:
Watched the vid...... I would love to see the Chinese do a documentary on starving Americans being sent to prison for the rest of their lives simply for stealing pizza or bread. (Three strikes) Not to mention the conditions of some of them. Point is there’s always two sides to a coin.
Stealing pizza or bread is not going to get you a third strike unless you do it with a gun, or maybe in a stolen car.
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