To cut to the chase, police raided a brick factory in Shanxi owned by the son of the local Communist Party. There they found workers who have been held virtual prisoners and were practically slaves. They had to work 20 hours a day with no pay and with only bread and water for food. They don't even have water to bathe and all them smelt foul and were so caked in dirt that it could be scrapped off with a knife. A few of them are so traumatized that the only thing they can remember is their first name.
It's so ironic that a communist country that is supposed to champion the poor proletariats end up being like the very greedy and inhumane capitalist and bourgeois they used to vilify and persecute.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6733045.stm
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