Woman finds note from Chinese labor camp prisoner in Kmart decorations

[ashling]

http://www.examiner.com/article/woman-finds-note-from-chinese-labor-camp-prisoner-kmart-decorations

Oregon resident Julie Keith was shocked when she opened her $29.99 Kmart Halloween graveyard decoration kit to find a letter, folded into eights, hidden between two Styrofoam tombstones.

Coming all the way from unit 8, department 2 of the Masanjia Labor Camp in Shenyang, China, the letter written mostly in English read,

"Sir: If you occasionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever."

The letter went on to describe 15 hour work days, no days off, and pay at 10 yuan per month ($1.61 US Dollar) if any. It also described the 1-3 year average forced labor terms without trial, and the large amount of Falun Gong practitioners in forced labor, a banned spiritual group.

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[AldoLeopold]

1. Holy fuck

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[mzmolly]

2. Labor camp? You mean one of those lovely places fences are keeping people out of?

[tsuki]

3. Prison Labor Camps, you know, like Corrections Corporation of

America is setting up here. Hey Mr. Capitalist, come here. You don't have to worry about overtime, unions, days off, vacations, child care, or sick days.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. it continues to appear that the United States is not interested in stopping slave goods"

And another law that this gov't chooses to ignore.

"Although it is illegal to import items produced or manufactured in a foreign country by forced labor under Title 19, section 1307 of U.S. Code, it continues to appear that the United States is not interested in stopping slave goods from reaching its shores."