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Living in a cave not able to leave maybe slightly better than a jail cell? Of course I'm not sure what other horrors he faced in a Chinese prison.
by efa 7y ago
Living in a cave not able to leave maybe slightly better than a jail cell? Of course I'm not sure what other horrors he faced in a Chinese prison.
- dangerface 7y agoThe article says he escaped from prison camp which I assume is a work camp.
- solatic 7y agoWhat defines a prison is not the lock on the door, but who controls the key.
- SamuelAdams 7y agoPersonally I would rather live in a cave. When you're in a jail cell, you might end up on an operating table because some wealthy someone needs a new liver, and yours was a match. This person did live in exile, but he lived nonetheless. To some life itself is more important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
- reaperducer 7y agoThere are hundreds of thousands of people who live in caves. China and Turkey leap to mind. The article I read about it in Turkey showed it as a kind of cultural heritage thing, not a poverty thing. The article I read about it in China was about the Chinese government forcing people who live in caves to move to cities, where they have no social nets or coping skills. Apparently there is some huge number (hundreds of thousands? millions? I forget) of people in China who live in caves in the western part of the country, and Beijing considers their lifestyle an embarrassment.