Ai Weiwei: "Gangsters in the Government" – General

sun-zoo.com — A fantastic essay by Ai Weiwei detailing illegal efforts to shut down his "citizens' investigation" of the students who died in the sichuan earthquake and then speculating about the reasons behind it.

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