Commenting on the recent news about hundreds of workslaves being held in a brick kiln in ShanXi Province, a Belgium blogger wrote on his/her Walking Noodles In Leuven blog:
The government’s response is fast and somewhat rigorous. It has reached to the very top of central government leaders, which is not so usual as there are so many casualties produced by work accidents in the country. This tragedy has attracted much more attention maybe because it represents a big irony: the socialist regime’s initial proclaimed mission is to abolish exploition and repression. The government’s tatic is old: to isolate this event as extremely accidental and solitary, hence to estangle with it and keep the positive reputation of the major social-political regime. When it happens that there are officials–most of them are also party members–involved in this kind of scandal, the normal trick is to remove them immediately (there is no such kind of formal dismission procedure existent) and renounce them as been “corrupted”. By this it is supposed to mean that just a very small part of the whole party or government is rotten, while the whole trend is good and positive. [Full Text]
