[Cronos]

The other half (after about a half hour trial, in some cases in groups) were sent to a stadium where they (several hundred) were all executed all in one day.

No way, that MUST be an urban legend, it sounds so Talibanesque

[maui_hawaii]

Like I said, now things are changing, but back just a few years...

Mao and his predessors weren't all that nice of people.

Talibanesque... pretty much...

If I am not mistaken I saw it as part of a documentary that was aired on the discovery channel a while back. They were talking about legal reforms, prisons, cops, etc in China in relation to the drug trade in Asia.

I can't prove that it happened, but I am 95% positive it was on that show...

[maui_hawaii]

China is in the midst of its third great wave of executions in the last quarter-century, a campaign in which as many as 191 persons have been executed in a single day, according to the state news media.

source

And thats just what the media admits too...its WAY more than that.

They won't admit it precisely because of human rights issues.