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When I was 7 years old, my village was turned into blocks of residential buildings on the original spot. And somehow I remember my grandma has told me in her casual chat that our community was built by prisoners. When I was a kid, I barely remember anything in my childhood, but this remark stay in my head all the time till now. As a kid, I had justified the fact to myself like, they were in prison, so they were bad people, and making use of their labor was a punishment, also a compensation to the society, it’s pretty fair. I can’t guarantee you how many Chinese people still carry on my childish point of view, but I think, some of them still do.
The last time that I heard about the forced labor was the news covered in Xinjiang: the re-education camp. I think I began to noticed it around 2015. And I remember when I was in middle school, ther ...
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