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Article: State Department releases its annual human rights report; China fails to improve record.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- January 30, 1997
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WASHINGTON _ In a tacit admission that U.S. efforts to improve China's human rights record have failed, the State Department declared Thursday that ``all public dissent against party and government was effectively silenced'' through intimidation, arrest, torture and forced exile.
China's authoritarian government cracked down so severely on its political opponents last year that ``no dissidents were known to be active at year's end,'' the department said in its annual international survey of human rights.
The State Department report also labeled Cuba a ``totalitarian anachronism'' and strongly criticized political repression in Burma, Nigeria and ...