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- From: bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin)
- Subject: Re: 20 Million Prisoners in China
- Message-ID: <By2Lrp.C8C@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
- References: <By1roF.CGM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:33:25 GMT
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- In article <By1roF.CGM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> B118789@VAX.CSC.CUHK.HK writes:
- >Several people have questioned me about my source for
- >my claim that China has 20 million prisoners.
- >
- >The figure is in "Laogai: The Chinese Gulag", by Hongda Harry Wu.
- >Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.
- >
- >News about public executions of prisoners in China for minor crimes
- >is common in the daily press here in Hong Kong. I am surprised that
- >Chinese people living abroad are unaware of this practice.
- >
- >Mak
- >Hong Kong
-
- You should not be so surprised if you know that even Chinese people
- living inside China are unaware of this "practice", Only some smart
- people living outside China are aware of this. Why? Because this kind
- of news are manufactured outside of China.
- People who believe in this kind of thing must be one of the following
- two kinds of people:
- 1. Too naive/stupid.
- 2. Real enemy of China. (Who actually know this are untrue)
-
-