China’s Concentration Camps (1/2)Laogai: The Chinese Gulag
Established by Mao Zedong in the 1940s, China’s concentration camp system has committed 50 million people, intellectuals, workers, students, peasants, to a life of hell over the last eighty years, with 20 million deaths. Not dissimilar to the Soviet Gulag, this cruel system of oppression was intended to bring about a ‘thought reform’ in the prisoners.
Survivors of the Laogai system, now living in exile, tell their story in this in depth documentary.
Director
Tania Rakhmanova
Production
YAMI2
Country
France
Year
2021
