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Congratulations China - shutting down slavery

A report on the BBC website show China's progress in cutting corruption and exploitation.

According to the report (citing Chinese news sources) a CCP official's son in Shanxi ran a brickworks and imprisoned slave workers under horrible conditions.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6733045.stm

'Slaves' rescued from China firm
By Michael Bristow
BBC News, Beijing

Thirty-one dirty and disorientated workers have been rescued from a brickwork factory in China, where they were being held as virtual slaves.

Eight workers were so traumatised by their experiences that they were only able to remember their names.
The labourers had to work unpaid for 20 hours at a time, and were only given bread and water in return.
The brickworks, in the poor inland province of Shanxi, is owned by the son of the local Communist Party secretary.
Local police told the BBC that the owner, Wang Binbin, had been arrested, and that his father, Wang Dongji, was under investigation.
Several other people have also been arrested, although the foreman is still on the run.
Harsh regime
According to a report in the Beijing News, citing the Shanxi Evening News, the rescued workers had been duped into working at the factory.
Once there, they faced a harsh regime. One man was even reported to have been beaten to death with a hammer, because he did not work fast enough.
When police raided the brickworks they discovered foul-smelling workers who had been wearing the same clothes for a year.
They had no facilities to wash, and they had not had their hair cut or brushed their teeth.
"The grime on their bodies was so thick it could be scraped off with a knife," the Beijing News said.
They had burns over their bodies after being made to carry bricks that had not cooled down properly.
Police are now arranging for the workers to get the wages they should have been paid, and then they will send them home, although the eight disorientated workers cannot remember where that is.
Local people said the brickworks, near Linfen, would have been closed down a long time ago had it not been for the protection of the party secretary.

Those who have assisted in rescuing those poor oppressed workers are to be congratulated, the "slave owners" should be spending many years behind bars.
Well done to the authorities who are working hard to stamp out this sort of behaviour.

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2007-6-8 05:47 PM

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Originally posted by zglobal at 2007-6-8 19:57
A good story ec.
There has been a lot of this type of thing on the Chinese news and the CCP has made it clear that no government officials are immune from prosecution for corruption, no matter how senior their position.

Yep, credit where it's due and there should be more incentive to report these sorts of crimes.

The move by the national government to target corrupt officials is a move which can only benefit China in the future and all reforms to this end need to be encouraged. This is where I think that an independent judiciary and the rule of law may help China with these sorts of reforms.

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2007-6-8 08:31 PM

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As my wife says, "We shall see..."

It will be interesting how far up the food chain this purge will go as far as corruption is concerned. It will also be interesting to see if anyone from the PLA gets caught up in this clean up effort.

TraderVic

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2007-6-8 10:29 PM

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it is a good news,but after all..being a Chinese..I really kinda fed up with this "political show",thought I welcome these improvments...

there are too many things happened like this in China.much more than those reported..where is money where are slaves

2007-6-8 11:37 PM

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i was awfully glad when i learned of this. go china.

2007-6-11 03:21 AM

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Does anyone here think the "culprit" should be handed a death sentence? And if the court did, what would be your reaction to it?

2007-6-11 11:10 AM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by zglobal at 8-6-2007 15:24
What's important is improvement. It's not hard to find negatives about any country and improvement is what we should wish for.

But one needs to be able to discuss and criticise the problems to be able to move on. As the article says, the only reason this place stayed in business was because the boss had political protection that silenced dissent. The central government can't be everywhere at once, nor can it expect people to have the confidence to make annonymous tip-offs frequently enough because if they're found out they'd be in real trouble. Equally there's no point going to the Police if they already know but won't do anything.

What is needed is for people like this to be able to rely on the Constitution 100% to say what is going on, with no caveats about criticising politicians or whatever - those caveats are often abused by people who want to make a profit by breaking the law, so they just class the critic as a "public enemy" or whatever (or just send some hired goons around). Really it's time to make a choice on free speech - the government can't have its cake and eat it.

2007-6-11 04:24 PM

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the "culprit" and his/her dad ought to stay behind bars for the rest of their lives.

2007-6-11 04:51 PM

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QUOTE:

Originally posted by zglobal at 11-6-2007 08:39
Oh please mencus, you really are a block head.

India has a so called democracy.

If anyone's a blockhead, it's you. I didn't say one word about democracy. I was talking about the ability to report and discuss law-breaking regardless of who the criminal or his family is, without fear of criminal prosecution on the pretext of it being anti-government or whatever.

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You are so inane and closed minded that you can’t see reality.

Actually the problem is you are so blinkered and obsessed with slagging off democracy that you have reflex reactions and completely miss the point of someone's post.

What you need to do is use the "little grey cells" inside your head more efficiently so you stop making yourself look stupid, rather than make assumptions about what people are arguing because you're too lazy to read carefully - that or the number of little grey cells you have is insufficient to conduct even basic tasks such as writing on forums.

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Originally posted by chinadaily at 11-6-2007 08:51
the "culprit" and his/her dad ought to stay behind bars for the rest of their lives.

Indeed, or at least not come out until he is past his working age.

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2007-6-11 05:06 PM

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Please forgive me mencus for I know not what I do.

I just like to have fun with brain dead idiots who like to lay back in their leather lounges and tell Chinese people what's good for them.

Did you ever go to China mencus?

If you did, did you ever leave the Sheraton?

2007-6-11 05:14 PM

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