> "The 'older sisters' pulled my hair and beat me. All my hair fell out when I was at school," says Aysu, now 10.

> "If we cried, the 'older brother' made us stand still facing the wall or hit us," says Lütfullah, now 8.

> When children didn't follow orders or learn quickly enough, their teacher would put them into a stress position they call "the motorcycle," the children say. Aysu and Lütfullah demonstrate: two arms stretched out front, knees bent in a half-squat, which they held for several minutes.

> But they say the worst punishment was being sent to the school's basement. Lütfullah says the teachers told him ghosts lived there, and children including him were locked there in the dark, alone, for hours at a time.

Hopefully someday the Chinese government atones for their crimes. Anyone with children knows how heartbreaking this is.