Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Since the exposure of London slavery case, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official media ran intense coverage of the case in an effort to mock Western democracy and human rights. Yet when further case investigations revealed that the alleged suspects are were Maoist activists, the CCP media's mocking stopped abruptly. The enthusiasm to report on the case went down and previous reports were even removed. Meanwhile, CCP media mouthpieces have made themselves into a laughing stock. Last week, British media reports came out about three women in London who were held as slaves for 30 years. The CCP controlled media reports immediately gave the case high priority. A report by BBC Chinese says this is a case the Chinese [CCP state media] editors have always wanted to see. That is, something that can be used to embarrass the West and condemn Westerners' as hypocritical for criticizing China's human rights record. As expected, CCP mouthpieces indeed carried out extensive coverage and commentary on the slavery case, taking the opportunity to ridicule Western countries advocating the concept of human rights and freedoms. Zan Aizong, former bureau chief and reporter at China Ocean News in Zhejiang: 'As long as it is bad news about foreign countries and is unrelated to China, it [the CCP] will actively amplify and air it during prime time. Its the same old notions of class struggle from the revolution. Whoever criticizes the CCP becomes the enemy, and [then the CCP will continually] denounce that enemy." BBC quoted People's Daily describing the news as having "shocked the world" and claiming, "there are still thousands of slaves waiting for rescue" in Britain. Global Times, an subsidiary of People's Daily, criticized the scandal as a satire of Western human rights and claimed modern slavery plagues the UK. State owned China Radio International Online says, 'in today's highly developed civilized society, the existence of such a shameful phenomenon is simply a merciless mockery of the UK's free society." However, sources revealed on Nov. 25 that the suspects in slavery case were former Maoist activists. Suddenly, it's like a bucket of cold water was poured onto the CCP media, and coverage went down rapidly, with no mention of the suspects connection to Maoism. Some media even deleted what was reported previously. The state TV station CCTV had to halt its in-depth reports in the process of preparation. A Chinese netizen mocked, "alas! I was going to watch the follow-up and in-depth report, and hear the deep reflection on capitalist society on the news. now u guys just kill all the fun." According to the Telegraph, detectives from the human trafficking unit said it was the worst case of modern slavery they had ever come across in Britain. The investigation found the suspects are a couple, aged 67 and 73, and not British. They were former Maoist activists, and also leading figures at the Mao Zedong Memorial Centre in south London in the 1970s. They recruited female members with extreme leftist ideology. The majority of the women attracted by their extremist propaganda were foreign. Among the three woman captives, two were former members of the organization. Zhong Weiguang, an expert on contemporary totalitarianism: "This Maoist kind of personality cult has an effect of numbing people who come seem as if possessed by it. This London case is an example that illustrates the final consequences of a person being hypnotized psychologically and ruled with violence." The Global Times reported on the 25th that the three women had been brainwashed, and said it was such "invisible chains" that shackled their freedom. Some Chinese netizens said sarcastically, "Global Times was critical at first, and now it has slapped it's own face." Zhong Weiguang: "Chinese in China today are hypnotized and enslaved by the CCP. China's entire society is amidst a sort of living slavery, it's just that their cage is bigger. It will allow the slaves to certain degree of freedom to move, but not to think or have beliefs like an ordinary person." An netizen wrote: The London slave case only involved three captives. It is nothing compared to a certain place where there are more than a billion people have been enslaved for over sixty years." 《神韵》2013世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/

• published: 29 Nov 2013
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