TESTIMONY (2004)
Since the People’s Republic of China signed the UN treaty against torture in 1986, it has denied that it still employs torture. The declarations of Tibetans who have fled to India for political reasons indicate the opposite. Joakim Eneroth did portraits of a number of these refugees for Testimony (2004), together with the Chinese instruments of torture that one of them was able to smuggle out with him. In recent years China has executed more people than all other countries combined. International critique is often silenced in deference to economic interests. For example, a German firm is presently building a railway line in Tibet, and an Australian firm owns all the Tibetan gold mines. China has also been selected to organize the 2008 Olympic Games.
