If she ever sees it at all. In 1998, five nuns couldn't take the beatings anymore. They were found hanging or choked to death in a storeroom in their cellblock. Suicide was their way out. Rukhag 3 records the fact in chilling, objective prose.
China is supposed to be a country steeped in a rich civilization.
Soon it will take another step closer to integration into the world community when it joins the WTO, the World Trade Organization. But the truth is that brutality continues, behind prison walls, occasionally glimpsed on the streets. It's the brutality of the bully, the inwardly frightened, the insecure. Beijing denies human-rights abuses in Tibet. But the denials are largely a fa ade.