enough to quell the large number of forced abortions infanticide and involuntary sterilizations nicholas backlund of human rights watch in hong kong told the washington post that quote the whole system needs to be dismantled what they're doing is just tinkering with it allowing one specific category of people to have two children the system is abusive and generates so much pain for so many but there is far more encouraging announcement that was also said by the chinese government today the country's long standing rib . cation labor camps are so to be abolished now exact numbers are impossible to know but according to china's state news agency approximately one hundred sixty thousand inmates have been held in three hundred fifty of these labor camps throughout the country these camps have been in place to harbor chinese political dissidents since the one nine hundred fifty s. and while the conditions are largely hidden according to former inmates that type of treatment in these camps includes regular beatings sleep deprivation forced labor work barely edible food no freedom to go to the bathroom a