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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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tortured. Chinese prisoners were treated like animals and finally exe-
cuted.
In these prisons, the savagery of Chinese Communism was espe-
cially evident.

Mao's Prisons

Mao's China had totally become a society of fear. The majority of
the millions accused of an offence, even with no concrete evidence of a
crime, were arrested and imprisoned as opponents of Communism.
Later they were executed in huge ceremonies held in the open squares of
large towns. An estimate of between 6 and 10 million people were un-
justly killed on Mao's directives. About 20 million "counter-revolution-
aries" spent a great part of their lives in prison as enemies of the state.
But as The Black Book of Communism says, living in these prisons was
often worse than death:
Up to 300 in cells of 100 square meters, and 18,000 in Shanghai's central
prison; starvation-level rations and overwork; inhuman discipline and a
constant threat of physical violence (for instance, people were beaten with
rifle butts to make them keep their heads high, which was obligatory when
marching.) The mortality rate, which until 1952 was certainly in excess of 5
percent per year—the average for 1949-1978 in the laogai—reached 50 per-
cent during a six-month period in Guangxi, and was more than 300 per
day in one mine in Shanxi. The most varied and sadistic tortures were
quite common, such as hanging by the wrists or the thumbs. One Chinese
priest died after being interrogated continuously for 102 hours. The most
brutish people were allowed to operate with impunity. One camp com-
mander assassinated or buried alive 1,320 people in one year, in addition
to carrying out numerous rapes. Revolts, which were quite numerous at
that time (detainees had not yet been ground into submission, and there
were many soldiers among them), often degenerated into veritable mas-
sacres. Several thousand of the 20,000 prisoners who worked in the oil-
fields in Yanchang were executed. In November 1949, 1,000 of the 5,000
who mutinied in a forest work camp were buried alive. 92
Nien Cheng, a former inmate of a Shanghai prison, describes the