China's prison slaves: A 21st century evil!!

[JanjaWeed]

China is the world's factory, but does a dark secret lurk behind this apparent success story?

Once an isolationist communist state, over the last 20 years China has become the world's biggest exporter of consumer goods. But behind this apparent success story is a dark secret - millions of men and women locked up in prisons and forced into intensive manual labour.

China has the biggest penal colony in the world - a top secret network of more than 1,000 slave labour prisons and camps known collectively as "The Laogai". And the use of the inmates of these prisons - in what some experts call "state sponsored slavery" - has been credited with contributing to the country's economic boom.


In this episode, former inmates, many of whom were imprisoned for political or religious dissidence without trial, recount their daily struggles and suffering in the "dark and bitter" factories where sleep was a privilege.

Charles Lee spent three years imprisoned for religious dissidence. He says: "For a year they tried to brainwash me, trying to force me to give up my practice of Falun Gong. They figured me out ... so they changed their strategy to force me to feel like a criminal ... because, according to their theory, a prisoner should be reformed through labour .... So they forced me to do slave labour."

Prison slaves - Slavery: A 21st Century Evil - Al Jazeera English

 

[CorporateAffairs]

Not surprised. China killed its own citizens for demonstrating. Typical dictator country

 

[Nomenclature]

Apparently it's OK to sentence someone to jail and it's OK to sentence someone to community services, but it somehow become slave labor when the two sentences are handed out together. I guess some people just lacks imagination.

 

[Huan]

That map of China in the video is outdated. Aksai Chin is under China's control and nobody else's. Some people never learn. Sheesh.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Why not? We learned from the best prison slavery country in the world: USA. Funny too, because the US has 1% of its population as prison slaves, while China has 0.2%. I guess we should question how US corporations rose up, and I don't think the answer is innovation.

 

[Determined Tiger]

so people think prison is the paradise where you can get into it easily and live like a king with free foods and free services by the government budgets!?

it also sounds "ironic" when it coming from an indian, is that not happen in your great india??? not want to offense you but when the world view your country they see a sea of dirty and retard civilian begging on the street??? you laugh at China for this??? where is your self esteem, indi!?

and i bet just a short time after this reply there will be a bunch of talkative viets will joint in and start yelling at Chinese bla bla bla as same as its brother hindu without any hesitate!!!

I would say that hating make those retard become stupid more than ever!!!

trying to explain how right to those retards is just likely playing a music to the bulls!!!

 

[applesauce]

"according to their theory, a prisoner should be reformed through labour "

don't like it? don't commit a crime there

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

these prisoners get 3 meals a day. average indian get 1 meal a day. 'nuff said.

 

[jayron]

Apparently it's OK to sentence someone to jail and it's OK to sentence someone to community services, but it somehow become slave labor when the two sentences are handed out together. I guess some people just lacks imagination.

It is an Arab funded channel, which is all the more hypocritical. They have some of the worst prison conditions.

 

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INDIA HAS MORE SLAVES THEN ANY OTHER COUNTRY OF THE WORLD

[video]http://www.ted.com/talks/sunitha_krishnan_tedindia.html[/video]

 

[gambit]

Why not? We learned from the best prison slavery country in the world: USA. Funny too, because the US has 1% of its population as prison slaves, while China has 0.2%. I guess we should question how US corporations rose up, and I don't think the answer is innovation.

In the US, the majority of the prison population are managed by individual states and the figures are public records. No one take your insult, let alone 'argument', seriously because no one take China's official prison figure seriously. Political prisoner Harry Wu estimated about 20 million Chinese prisoners, ranging from petty crimes to politically motivated. Wu himself was in a forced labor camp. You can dismiss Wu and I fully expect you to do so, but you cannot dismiss the world's opinion: China is a dictatorship and dictatorships should never be trusted when it comes to how they treat criminals and prisoners. You are making a fool out of yourself here.

 

[Determined Tiger]

here in the U.S. sometime I witness people throwing out trash without changing in their facing emotional when I catch it!!!

I once time ask my friend why you doing that, he say: "for prisoners having something to pick, we pay tax to raise them to do the job!!!"

In the US, the majority of the prison population are managed by individual states and the figures are public records. No one take your insult, let alone 'argument', seriously because no one take China's official prison figure seriously. Political prisoner Harry Wu estimated about 20 million Chinese prisoners, ranging from petty crimes to politically motivated. Wu himself was in a forced labor camp. You can dismiss Wu and I fully expect you to do so, but you cannot dismiss the world's opinion: China is a dictatorship and dictatorships should never be trusted when it comes to how they treat criminals and prisoners. You are making a fool out of yourself here.

totally a sockpuppet manner getting upset for its master!!! how clownish is this!!??

 

[gambit]

here in the U.S. sometime I witness people throwing out trash without changing in their facing emotional when I catch it!!!

I once time ask my friend why you doing that, he say: "for prisoners having something to pick, we pay tax to raise them to do the job!!!"




totally a sockpuppet manner getting upset for its master!!! how clownish is this!!??

I take it you see a lot of chain gangs toiling away in the hot sun and/or the wintry snow for the benefits of Bank of America and GM.

 

[manojb]

Hey its not from epoch times!

 

[Kylin]

hmmm, so...