"Who is responsible for the shit that I went through?"Agence France-Presse — Getty Images (from NYTIMES.COM). Kudos to the AFP photographer
No. This is not a movie still from some hot-shot director to expose China's migrant laborers.
This is a gut-wrenching picture from AFP, depicting freed kiln forced laborers in Shanxi Province, China.
Reported by AFP via Yahoo! News (being a z-list blogger, I don't have original news; but at least I try to give attribution ... )
A total of 351 people -- including 22 children -- were freed from 3,700 brick works and coal mines in Shanxi while 217 -- including 29 children and 10 mentally handicapped people -- were released in Henan, Xinhua said.You just can't make this shit up even if you want to.
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ReplyDeletewithout the quasi-slave labor in Mainland, how can I afford my Assault Rifle M4A1 at USD20, my genuine leather Taekwondo Trainer at USD13, my Glock 17 at USD7, my set of Army Combat Uniform (GI ACU) at USD20, fake Rolex Yacht Master at USD30, fake Omega Seamaster at USD30, Nike Air Force 1 at USD20, I need all these materials to make me happy, I don't need Cat Food or Baby Milk Powder
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Several days ago I bought a mainland made high tech compressed DVD at HK$100, with 8 to 10 Bruce Lee movie insides, some are US and UK version, very good quality. I found another a collection of Oliver Stone or Tom Cruise compressed DVD at HK$100 each, each consisted of 10 movie inside, now Mainlander has mastered the skills of compressed DVD, HK$100 for 10 to 12 Tom Crise movie in single DVD, what can you say, I think I can watch Die Hard 4.0 before you. HK$50 a single DVD with all the Die Hard 1 - 4
ReplyDeleteThe responsibility rested squarely on the shoulders of the Communist Party of China ("CPC").
ReplyDeleteThe Kiln owner's father, surnamed Wang, was the secretary of a local branch of CPC in that county 党支书. Of course, the owner's wife now said that it's the contractor 包工头 who kept slaves and that they were innocent and kept in the dark.
When reporters from China Central TV Station ("CCTV") visited the kiln to investigate, local police officers asked them not to be nosy 'cos the enslaved kids were not their own kids.
It's the irony of the 21st Century in that a CPC county secretary's son kept slaves in his own kiln and the Gong An looked the other way while the Communists are supposed to emancipate concubines, slaves and 妹仔, including the surfs in Tibet.
Will's a heartless and amoral guy whose only concern is the selling price of his toys and DVD's. As you said, it's a gut-wrenching picture. I can hardly imagine someone seeing the photo without rending his heart while still thinking he's lucky 'cos he's reaping the benefits of the China price.
He's hard to shame. I feel shameful that slavery still exists in China.
wp2006 is just saying it. I don't think he meant it at all.
ReplyDeleteSS: Your assessment is on the money. It's a monstrous failure of the government, from local to all the way up. The failure to protect those who need to be protected. Things like this shouldn't be swept under the rug. It really needs to be exposed and addressed right away. The New York Times credit the picture as AFP-Getty Images, but I found the same picture from Reuters website. I don't understand that. I am trying to find out the answer.
I applaud the photographer and the news agency. A picture is really worth a thousand word.
Come on, Mainland has millions of their own problems, or our problems, what can you or me can do except blame on CCP, last night I can manage to finish half of the DVD "Tom yam Kong", the mainland pirated DVD, and all those cheaper mainland made BBC DVD, I can do nothing
ReplyDeleteWith rampant corruption in the ranks of the CPC, all kinds of ghastly incidents can happen anywhere in China any minute.
ReplyDeleteImagine the pollution of Tai Hu and several other lakes by blue algae earlier this month, which threatened the safety of drinking water of millions of people.
You are sleeping next to CCP, Daiya Bay Nuclear Plant is next to you home, do you have any choice
ReplyDeleteThis is the guo qing of China. For rl2007, it is gut-wrenching. For me, I have no feelings. A little to the south of where that picture was taken, some 69 years ago, a dyke was blown up by the retreating nationalists on hopes of slowing the advancing Japanese. In the end, some 800k Chinese were drowned. A further 64 years ago, a severe drought killed millions in that province. Yes, we are already living in the best of times. The communists are doing a great job!
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In the year of 1960-1963, 20 millions or more Chinese died of hunger, in 1964, when I was less than 1 year old, my parents brought me to Guangdong to see my grandma and uncles, they told me the situation was really terrible. Of course I was too young, cannot have any memory
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The term Guoqing or realities of a nation is a bit too stretched sometimes. Sweatshops [i.e. factories where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions], maybe. Owning slaves, maybe not.
ReplyDeleteI've watched a video clip the other day showing a supposed slave man standing by a wheelbarrow being pelted with several bricks at the head for poor working attitude or mistakes in front of a brick kiln. I said what the f**k was happening in China.
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