Over the years, the persistent yet unconfirmed rumors have been circulating about the existence of dying rooms in some of China’s state orphanages. The dying room is a completely dark room where children are supposedly placed if they are really sick or severely mentally handicapped. These poor children are left in these rooms all day and all night until they eventually die. They receive no attention from other kids or workers and they sit in their own waste. A British documentary team went to China and secretly filmed the reality of some of the orphanages. The documentary is called "The Dying Room" and it took them two years to film. The documentary was shown on TV in 26 different nations. The video raised a ton of controversy, and China was still trying to deny it even though the inexcusable conditions are shown in the documentary. A year after the film was shown, it received the Peabody Award for distinction and achievement in a documentary. Below I have posted just a small part of “The Dying Room” documentary so you can see for yourself the condition that some of these children are living in everyday.
Warning: This video has some disturbing images
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