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"The Laogai camps, named after the Chinese words ‘lao’ – meaning ‘re-education’ - and ‘gai’ – meaning ‘labour’ – began to be established in China shortly after the communist takeover in 1948.
Almost 50 million Chinese have been imprisoned in the camps since their inception, and only half of these ever returned home. According to the Laogai research institute in Washington, there are presently more than 1 700 such camps in China. Between 3 and 5 million people are being held in them. People are mostly sent to the camps without any judicial procedure, as a police decision is enough. In the camps, the Chinese regime deliberately strips the prisoners of their human dignity and individuality, and forces their relatives and friends to write letters in which they spurn and abandon the prisoners. These letters eventually break the prisoner, along with the inhumanely long interrogations, torture and 14 hours of hard labour every day. The prisoners have just 3 – 4 days off per year. There is no medical care or medicines in the camps. The prisoners who work outside supplement their poor diet by eating grass. The camps do not provide any privacy, and 5 – 15% of prisoners commit suicide in the camps.
We should therefore take effective measures to ensure that products from these slave factories do not soil the conscience of European civilisation."@en1
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