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Mon 14 Jun, 2004 06:46 am
Report: China to handle the abuse of soldiers in the PLA
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I've ever been a military officer, and transferred to civilian work at the year 2000. I am not surprised after reading this report. The abuse of soldiers has really existed at Chinese military forces. It was usual that a soldier helped washing his officer's socks and clothes. It has been a decades-long tradition of Chinese army. The truth that is beyond dispute is that not easy to train soldiers nowadays. Some parents gave presents to military officers, trying to establish relationship with them, in order to let their children entering army. So, it is necessary to brainwash the new soldiers! I have gone to local area to recruit. Sometimes we had no idea how to deal with the problems properly. Because members of the local police station and armed force department recommended them enthusiastically by saying that the recruits-elect had not had any bad behavior record. We could not refuse them, or else we could not finish our task. Army is a disciplinary army. It might become a plate of scattered sand if administering soldiers with the means of human-oriented management. If troops need to rescue people suffering in earthquake and their properties, today's soldiers might completely refuse doing so. Perhaps you have to handle the situation with simple and crude manner. Telling them with proper reason and persuading them with ideal? Time is not allowed to do so. The ruffians, who dodged away the gate of jail and turned to enter the gate of the army, would not like to listen to you. The qualities of the sevicemen and sevicewomen have worsened. Could the battle effectiveness at large be strong hence? The problems could not be handled alone by the officers at grass roots. At present, military officers have not had their mind secure. Suffice to say that most of them have sacrificed their intimate relationship with their families and relatives. But their income can not get increased, their family members face unemployment; their children face the problem of entering school; they have to scratch along. Can they have their mind secure? Resolving the corruption in the army is a key to increase the battle effectiveness.