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The 26June2003 Destruction of Tu Du Sha Church

[lafroste]

In the old section of Guangzhou, where land is at a premium and the living density is extraordinary, there is a little stone church just down the street from a major Bank of China office. The doors are blown off, the roof is half gone, the windows black in mute testimony to a long quenched fire. THe entire lot is surrounded by a hastily erected chain link fence, and it looks like no one has set foot inside that fence in ten years.

I wish I had the guts to photograph it then. I was warned to ignore it, I could get in trouble by being too curious or if I were reported taking pictures. I should have risked it.

It was one of the saddest little buildings I have ever seen.

[tallhappy]

They do this as policy

The whitewash of how the Chinese government treats people is unbelievable.

There are many other threads on such things here from over the years.