ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the manner in which the Chinese Communist party (CCP) and its leaders in fact have treated their own citizens and others they control and deduce the obvious impact on human rights. A peculiar characteristic of the methods Chinese Communist authorities have employed consistently in enforcing the “people’s dictatorship” is to keep silent on some of the measures they employ in their actions. The set of dictatorial controls that made the CCP’s unquestioned rule possible arrogated to the Chinese Communist leaders the power to determine who were counterrevolutionaries to be placed in arrest, subjected to labor reform, and branded, together with their family members, as unspeakable nonpersons subject to inequities in education, jobs, and living conditions for an indefinite period if not their entire lives. Living under the Chinese Communist system, the average Chinese was besieged by actual and potential informers and was under the constant surveillance of neighbors.
