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“Should I feel anything?” asks the beady-eyed man, sitting in a padded cell with handcuffs around his wrists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He’s being grilled by Chinese investigators about the time he allegedly ordered a stranger to be killed – a human offering to celebrate his sworn brotherhood with a business partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Wasn’t he a living, breathing person?” an investigator asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I didn’t feel much,” the man maintains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The scene may sound like it came straight out of a crime drama. In fact, it is part of a documentary on Chinese state media – a look inside the workings of the justice system almost unheard of in a country where court proceedings are largely kept out the public eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The handcuffed man answering questions is Chen Dawei, a member of the infamous Wei family, one of several powerful mafia groups that for years operated with impunity in Myanmar’s border town of Laukkaing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His confession forms just one part of a months-long propaganda push by Chinese officials. It both warns Chinese people of South East Asia’s billion-dollar scam industry, and highlights the Chinese government’s crackdown on the men behind an industry which has trapped thousands, and stolen billions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The message China wants to send, as one investigator puts it, is clear: “It’s to warn other people, no matter who you are, where you are, as long as you commit such heinous crimes against Chinese people, you will pay the price.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or, to use a Chinese idiom: kill the chicken to scare the monkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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