The "D" word...

[Robert Harley]

>Is China really that evil

No.


>and the current government has absolutely no merits?

Yes.  The current government is a revolting chunk of shite.


>I left China in 78 and
>went back for visit in 89, 94 and 98. Each time I saw dramatic progress

Oh yeah?

>Zhou Jianxiong, a 30 year-old agricultural worker from Chunhua
>township in Hunan province, died under torture on 15 May 1998.
>Detained on 13 May, he was tortured by officials from the township
>birth control office to make him reveal the whereabouts of his wife,
>suspected of being pregnant without permission.  Zhou was hung upside
>down, repeatedly whipped and beaten with wooden clubs, burned with
>cigarette butts, branded with soldering irons, and had his genitals
>ripped off.

Source: Amnesty International.

This is one anecdote, but thousands more are killed or executed every
year in China.  And this is progress?  I hate to imagine what it was
like before.  I'm not sure there is progress actually.  Concerning the
execution of approximately 100 people on a single day earlier this year:

>"Considering the escalation in serious and widespread human rights
>violations over the past three years, the Chinese authorities have a
>long way to go to demonstrate a healthy and basic respect for human
>rights," Amnesty International said.
>[...]
>"Ironically, sports stadiums were the last places where many of those
>condemned to death were taken, to be subjected to ritual public
>humiliation in front of large crowds, just before being executed," the
>organization said.


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