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17-04-2005, 04:26
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There is a rumor circulating in China of a series of concentration camps constructed in remote areas of central Tibet and some of the forested areas in the Qinghai province.
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Several independent newspapers have even accompanied such articles with photographs from undisclosed sources. The Chinese Military Junta currently operates more than 200 labor camps for punishment of criminals, but the alleged existence of new camps stir up only new messages of reprisals and denouciations by human rights groups. Such messages are only repeats of the old.
The government officially denies the existence of such camps and believe that they are photographs taken of abandoned and decommissioned bases. But critics claim that the government have gone into great lengths to disguise the facilities, with one newspaper reporting that some of the chimneys could be mechanically withdrawn as an aspect of disguise.
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Reactions by the general public over these camps have been rather quiet. Many believe that whatever camps they are, the criminals deserve to be punished. Some members of the ethnic communities are slightly alarmed, but due to the absence of pogroms many believe that the Junta lives up to its word of protecting ethnic minorities.
Analysts have been comparing them to those used in Taiwan for re-education and concluded that they maybe up to four times as large. One have even nicknamed them as 'Chinese Auschwitz'. Numbers of these camps also vary in different reports. Most claim only 4 but there may be up to 10 or more.
There is a rumor circulating in China of a series of concentration camps constructed in remote areas of central Tibet and some of the forested areas in the Qinghai province.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/ft-dix-nj3.jpg
Several independent newspapers have even accompanied such articles with photographs from undisclosed sources. The Chinese Military Junta currently operates more than 200 labor camps for punishment of criminals, but the alleged existence of new camps stir up only new messages of reprisals and denouciations by human rights groups. Such messages are only repeats of the old.
The government officially denies the existence of such camps and believe that they are photographs taken of abandoned and decommissioned bases. But critics claim that the government have gone into great lengths to disguise the facilities, with one newspaper reporting that some of the chimneys could be mechanically withdrawn as an aspect of disguise.
http://js.smugmug.com/photos/6226806-O.jpg
Reactions by the general public over these camps have been rather quiet. Many believe that whatever camps they are, the criminals deserve to be punished. Some members of the ethnic communities are slightly alarmed, but due to the absence of pogroms many believe that the Junta lives up to its word of protecting ethnic minorities.
Analysts have been comparing them to those used in Taiwan for re-education and concluded that they maybe up to four times as large. One have even nicknamed them as 'Chinese Auschwitz'. Numbers of these camps also vary in different reports. Most claim only 4 but there may be up to 10 or more.