While the caning punishment meted out to this young delinquent by the court was applauded by many Americans, some media there, nonetheless, called it barbaric and compared it with the inhuman treatment of black American slaves by the white American plantation owners.
And though he did find evidence of isolated cases of rape, inhuman treatment and“ wilful killing” of civilians, they were not sufficiently widespread to meet the threshold of gravity required.
Two meals of congee and one of rice, a 12-hour working day, a speed-up, additional tasks in the boss' house, filthy living conditions and inhuman treatment -- this is the lot of these "machines" which are made, after all, of flesh and blood, not of steel.
The inhuman treatment of Chinese women is well known.
The inhuman treatment of mental patients shocked the public.
