The forgotten Americans who ended in the gulag

http://www.nysun.com/arts/banished-the-forsaken-by-tim-tzouliadis/82839/

by peakok • 18 years ago

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greyman2• 18 years ago

Sad stories. It's interesting, that similarly how Western media painted a distorted picture of Soviet communist regime, they now paint a distorted picture of China communist regime. The same deception tactics still works, the existence of forced labors camps (gulags) is very rarely mentioned, horrible human rights abuses go unreported in mainstream media, etc.

When will mankind learn their lessons?

tptacek• 18 years ago

Is your argument that conditions in China are comparable to those in Stalinist Russia, and, if so, can you support that argument with evidence?

wtrk2• 18 years ago

The Soviet regime ran a large system of forced labor camps. China currently runs a large system of forced labor camps. Horrible human rights violations occurred under the Soviet system and are currently occurring in China.

Here's a recent, quite representative, example of the sort of thing that can happen to someone in China:

"Chinese teacher sent to labour camp for earthquake photos" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/30/chinaearthquake....

Excerpt:

  A Chinese teacher has been sent to a labour camp over his   
  internet photographs of schools that collapsed in the 
  Sichuan earthquake, a rights group said today.

  Liu Shaokun was ordered to serve a year of "re-education   
  through labour", according to Human Rights in China. The 
  system does not require a formal charge or criminal trial 
  and there is no appeal.

greyman2• 18 years ago

Yes, the conditions are comparable for those citizens, who were labeled as enemies of the regime. I don't know what you will accept as an evidence, but here are a few links:

http://laogai.org - research of the laogai, so called "Chinese gulags". China has more than 1,000 of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong_and_live_organ_harve... - Organ harvesting from living people

There are also other reports by United Nations or Amnesty international about that.

wtrk2• 18 years ago

The Chinese equivalent to the Soviet-era gulag is the laogai ("reform through labor") camp:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai

ola• 18 years ago

I guess "One Day in the Life of John Smith" didn't sound as interesting.

The forgotten Americans who ended in the gulag

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