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China is still run by a totalitarian mentality that has its roots in
Mao's vision of communism. The reforms in the economic field have

not brought about any major changes in the minds of the leadership of
the Chinese Communist Party.
A large part of the economic progress and revenues are used to in-
crease the repression of the population and to silence the voices of op-
position. China currently has the highest capital punishment rate of any
country in the world. Furthermore, it is perhaps the only country in
which executions are turned into public spectacles, and where the inter-
nal organs of those executed are removed without their permission and
sold for profit, where pregnant women are forced to have abortions.

There are more than 1,000 labor camps in the country, and those de-
tained in them are systematically tortured.

EXECUTIONS IN CHINA

ARE JUST A ROUTINE MATTER
The death penalty is an important control mechanism of the Red
Chinese regime. The famous Chinese dissident Harry Wu de-
scribes the situation in his country as follows:

The dictatorship is tightly associated with violence and has even
grown dependent on it. It practices the Chinese idiom of "Kill the
Chicken to Scare the Monkey." The public education carried out by
sentencing rallies and mass executions shows the Party's reliance on
public violence. 27
Although it is impossible to specify the exact number, millions of
people have executed by the Red Chinese regime. Most figures are
based on estimates, although the latest research has revealed that the
number of people killed is much higher than was previously believed.

The fact that the communist regime regards executions and murder as

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan