More slave laborers rescued in Guangdong. As the Beijing News notes, the particularly disgraceful thing here - the latest in a rash of small-scale scandals after the big one in 2007 - is the self-admitted inaction of the local authorities until the press got involved.
My reckoning is that the next stage of this, in terms of generating public outrage and reform, is exposing the links to institutions like orphanages and homes for the mentally disabled, which frequently deal with human traffickers, especially in the countryside. Given the almost total lack of oversight and easy opportunities for predators, Chinese care institutions are rife with abuse, and this is one possible way that will end up being exposed.
the particularly disgraceful thing here - the latest in a rash of small-scale scandals after the big one in 2007 - is the self-admitted inaction of the local authorities until the press got involved.
You mean they actually acted after the press got involved?
Posted by: ejh | May 16, 2011 at 10:34 AM