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CONCENTRATION CAMPS: From the Laogai Research Foundation, "The Laogai is more than a place to detain and" reform "convicts and dissidents; it is inextricably linked to the Chinese economy.
Heidiminx: Can ABC World News get Answers? Heidiminx 2010
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CONCENTRATION CAMPS: From the Laogai Research Foundation, "The Laogai is more than a place to detain and" reform "convicts and dissidents; it is inextricably linked to the Chinese economy.
Heidiminx: Can ABC World News get Answers? Heidiminx 2010
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In fact, it is estimated that the Chinese Communists - led, inspired, and controlled by Mao - have killed 65 million Chinese citizens since 1949 through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the Gulag system of slave-labor prisons (the "Laogai" system) that Mao implemented.
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After languishing 19 years in China's forced labour camps, a Chinese dissident has set up a museum in Washington to highlight the "horrors and atrocities" in these secret detention facilities., who labored in 12 different camps in China from 1960 to 1979, set up the museum in memory of the millions who he said perished within the camps, known as "Laogai" or reform-through-labor camps.
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This recount was provided by the Laogai Research Foundation in its pending OCP report:
Heidiminx: PROPAGANDA: PR With an Oppressive Agenda Heidiminx 2010
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The Chinese leadership is in the midst of a sustained and multifaceted war on human rights, best illustrated by its imperial attempts to subjugate Tibetans and Uyghurs, its Orwellian surveillance and censorship machinery, its political reeducation programs, its total lack of democracy, the routine use of torture and execution in the Chinese legal system, and the eight million languishing in the Laogai -- China's vast prison camp network.
Thor Halvorssen: Human Rights Is Big Winner in Nobel Peace Prize Selection Thor Halvorssen 2010
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A sad and ongoing example of this is the Laogai--slave labor camps for political opponents in China containing more than eight million prisoners.
Thor Halvorssen: A Royal Wedding Divorced of Human Rights Concerns; Dictators Will Eat Wedding Cake Thor Halvorssen 2011
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In fact, in the past two years, it has grown worse, and in an ironic twist, arrests, disappearances, and extended sentences to Laogai (reform-through-labor concentration camps) have increased for Tibetan musicians, filmmakers and writers.
Heidiminx: Street Dogs: American Musicians Stand Up For Tibet's Imprisoned Artists (VIDEO) Heidiminx 2010
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The Chinese leadership is in the midst of a sustained and multifaceted war on human rights, best illustrated by its imperial attempts to subjugate Tibetans and Uyghurs, its Orwellian surveillance and censorship machinery, its political reeducation programs, its total lack of democracy, the routine use of torture and execution in the Chinese legal system, and the eight million languishing in the Laogai -- China's vast prison camp network.
Thor Halvorssen: Human Rights Is Big Winner in Nobel Peace Prize Selection Thor Halvorssen 2010
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The Chinese leadership is in the midst of a sustained and multifaceted war on human rights, best illustrated by its imperial attempts to subjugate Tibetans and Uyghurs, its Orwellian surveillance and censorship machinery, its political reeducation programs, its total lack of democracy, the routine use of torture and execution in the Chinese legal system, and the eight million languishing in the Laogai -- China's vast prison camp network.
Thor Halvorssen: Human Rights Is Big Winner in Nobel Peace Prize Selection Thor Halvorssen 2010
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