Posted on 11/04/2005 5:23:16 AM PST by RightCanuck
Chinese Concentration Camp Exports
This November and December, as innocent children prepare to celebrate the winter holidays, Chinese sons and daughters slave under horrid conditions to provide cheap toys and presents. The stores are full of items from Chinese factories, and many of the gifts that you will buy for young boys and girls will have been made by slave labor in a concentration camp.
The horrific truth behind the bright plastic and slick cardboard boxes can be found in an article titled "Where in China Are Your Dolls and Toys Made?" by Shizhong Chen.
Chen makes it clear that many of the toys imported from China are made inside the Lao Gai prison camps by forced labor. Working 18 hours a day, or even non-stop for up to 40 hours at a time, punishes slaves held because of religious or political beliefs that conflict with Beijing.
"The Lao Gai system is a machine of corporate fascism. With no worry about the source and availability of slaves, the captive workforce is driven to the limit, regardless of whether the prisoners are sick, disabled from being beaten, or weakened by the intolerable conditions," wrote Chen.
"There is no living condition to consider in labor camps and detention centers, as any improvement in conditions will subtract from profit. Prisoners are simply treated as objects from which to extract the maximum amount of labor, to be released when half-dead, and replaced with new ones," notes Chen.
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This article may need source vetting, but the subject of slave labor and the Chinese is beyond dispute.
went to the Toronto film festival few months ago and they had a documentary on the sweat shops in China. They are certainly not good, but not as bad as this article suggests.
I sure there are abuses in China's prison system. And those local abuses will need to be addressed. But lets not forget that the overwhelming majority (99+%) of China's exports are produced by the 80 million factory workers who are not in China's prison system.
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