Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adhe Tapontsang spoke yesterday evening about being tortured, raped and starved, and of watching the Chinese kill her friends and family during her 27 years in a Chinese prison as China consolidated its control over her Tibetan homeland...
...were not allowed to wash ourselves in prison," Tapontsang said of one prison. "But most of the young women, including myself, were told by the commander to do the laundry and clean his quarters, were we were raped daily...
...recalled another prison where 12,019 prisoners died in three years...
When Tapontsang was released from prison in 1986, she said, she returned to Kham-her home region-in Tibet...
...human rights. So do a lot of other countries; for example, certain Islamic nations that forbid women from participating in society. In fact, the Tiananmen massacre was in the same vein as the United States' use of military force to violently suppress student uprisings during the Vietnam era. And prison labor is not unique to China; America uses prisoners to perform all sorts of tasks. In both of these cases, the Chinese model is more horrible than that of the U.S., but only by degree. As for religious freedom, many Islamic regions of China are given partial autonomy. The religion...