China: Worker abuse boss caught

[rpannier]

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Chinese police have captured a man accused of holding workers in virtual slavery, state media reported on Sunday amid a national uproar over teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.

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(this quote would be funny if the whole situation wasn't so evil)
"I felt it was a fairly small thing, just hitting and swearing at the workers and not giving them wages," Heng said, according to the Shiyan Evening News. "The dead man had nothing to do with me."
("just hitting...not giving them wages" What a delay humanitarian this guy is)

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(on a positive note)
The China Youth Daily called the coercion a "shocking disgrace" exposing officials' failure to enforce labor laws.
(The China Youth Daily is pretty much a mouthpiece for the government. For them to be able to print this is a positive sign)

"When a law is massively undercut in its implementation so that it becomes a worthless piece of paper, then it's necessary to rethink the law itself," the paper said.

link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/06/17/china.slaves.reut/index.html