Chinese activist possibly beaten to death

this will make you sick.

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They continued for 10 minutes. The body of this skinny little man turned to putty between the kicking legs of the rancorous men. This was not about teaching a man a lesson, about scaring me, about preventing access to the village; this was about vengeance - retribution for teaching villagers their legal rights, for agitating, for daring to hide.

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What I can tell you is that what's going on in Taishi is perhaps the most significant grassroots social movement China has seen since the Cultural Revolution, a rural revolt against corruption, against deterioration of healthcare, against the illegal sale of farmland, and broadly against urban capitalism that has reaped no benefits for these farmers.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1588595,00.html

is the US number one trading partner. Human rights are so quaint. :sarcasm:

:( And yes don't forget Gitmo.

those that cannot and will not see.

China did a number in Tibet too. It never seems to end. sigh...