Page 95 - Communist Chinas Policy of Oppression in East Turkestan

hina entered the twentieth
century as the remains of an em-
pire fragmented and crushed under
pressure from especially Britain, France,
Germany, Japan and Russia. After imperial rule had been
overthrown, no powerful central authority was established for
decades. When the Communist Party came to power in 1949, China
soon turned into a state of fear. That process cost the lives of tens of mil-
lions of people because of the repressive and totalitarian methods the
communists used to enforce their bloody ideology. The Chinese Com-
munist Party resorted to violence to remain in power, and implemented
one of the most savage and ruthless form of communism ever, enforc-
ing one single way of living and thinking for the entire Chinese people.
Throughout that period, those who refused to abide by the rules of their
communist leaders were ruthlessly exterminated.
It is commonly assumed that the savage implementation of com-
munism has come to an end. People no longer receive food in return for
vouchers, no longer are required to wear uniforms, nor suffer torture
because they are unable to learn Mao's "Little Red Book" by heart. Yet
communism, adapted by the regime to the new world order, is still
alive and well in all its ruthlessness.
In the eyes of the Communist Party, people are of value only
as long as they can produce, and are allowed to think only
within boundaries set by the Communist Party. They can
freely express only thoughts in harmony with the
party. The labor camps that exist through China,
the system that humiliates and exploits mil-
lions of people in those camps, the mass
executions in full public view, the
torture methods widely