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Prague Hosts Conference On Crimes Of Communism [RFE, 2/24/10]

michael.lrf — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:47:22 PST

The "Crimes of Communism" conference has opened in Prague to look at communism's legacy, ask how to hold rights violators accountable, and consider communist regimes still in...

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Prague to host conference on crimes of communism [CTK, 2/22/10]

michael.lrf — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:15:23 PST

A three-day international conference on crimes of communist regimes attended by historians and legal experts will be held in Prague this week, its organisers say on their website. The upcoming...

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劳改基金会：中国用互联网推销劳改产品（VOA中文网）

Hope is a good thing — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:04:29 PST

总部设在华盛顿的劳改基金会星期四发表研究报告指出，中国100多家劳改工厂在互联网上用英文发布广告，向包括美国在内的国际市场宣传出口劳改产品。（阅读更多，请点击这里）

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China still marketing prison-labour exports, report says [Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 2/4/10]

michael.lrf — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:02:53 PST

China is still marketing for export products made by forced labour in prisons, nearly 20 years after such exports were first exposed, the US-based Laogai Research Foundation said on Thursday. A...

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吴宏达与劳改的渊源(法广华语网）

Hope is a good thing — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:51:12 PST

吴宏达说，他在1957年大学2年级时被打成右派，受到留校察看处分，由两名共青团员监视。1960年他23岁时，被判无期徒刑送去劳改。他在19年劳改生涯中换了12个劳改队。吴宏达的父亲原先在银行工作，也被打成右派。母亲1960年得知吴宏达被劳改后自杀。小弟弟1968年为了与家庭划清界限，到贵州“接受贫下中农再教育”，却因为被怀疑侮辱“毛主席像”，被打...

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World’s Worse Mass Murderer Wasn’t Hitler or Stalin, but Mao (Opinion) [Guelph Mercury, 1/30/10]

michael.lrf — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:41:15 PST

According to the authoritative Black Book of Communism, an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China....

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Google search engine's future in China is unclear [AP via San Louis Obispo, 1/15/10]

michael.lrf — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:59:09 PST

Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in China's "laogai" labor camp system, brushed off Google's announcement with a blunt assessment of the company's role in China. "Google doesn't really...

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China's Horrid One Child Policy Continues [Huffington Post, 1/7/10]

michael.lrf — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:41:15 PST

Secretary Clinton's commitment to "put women and girls at the center of US foreign policy" is a laudable one, and after playing a central role at the 1994 Cairo conference, it is only...

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China behaving badly. Yet again (Opinion) [Independent (UK), 12/27/09]

michael.lrf — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:31:31 PST

Liu has been in prison before and also served three years in a labour camp for calling for the release of demonstrators after the Tiananmen Square protests. These camps have been used to get rid of...

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Grim legacy of ‘laogai’ labour camps [Herald (Scotland), 12/13/09]

michael.lrf — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:10:33 PST

Read the whole story here. Harry Wu, founder of the US-based Laogai Research Foundation, spent 19 years in the laogai system. Wu was sent to a labour camp as a young man in 1960 after police arrested...

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