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June 6, 2006 (Sunday) － Issue No. 52 |
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Authorities Sentence Survivors of Shanwei Massacre |
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Cartoonist's Kidney Missing after Surgery for Injuries |
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Month-Old Baby Reads 2000 Characters |
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Business Chooses to Comply with Chinese Communist Regime Companies that do business with China's Communist regime provide the know-how to keep Mainland China's citizens from knowing the truth, to find those with dissenting views, and to persecute those it believes to be a threat to its power....…Full Article |
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European Parliament Vice-President Strongly Supports CCP Withdrawals In addition to supporting withdraws from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in mainland China, he affirmed that the communist regime must disintegrate. The Vice-President hopes 100 percent of the CCP's members will withdraw from the Party.....…Full Article |
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On May 24, the Guangdong Haifeng Court held a hearing on the Shanwei massacre that happened on December 6, 2005. Thirteen villagers were given heavy sentences of three to seven years in jail for crimes of "detonation, gathering the public to disturb the social order and disrupting traffic." Their family members will appeal. The following is a quote from the court verdict: "The court tried and found that, on December 6, last year, in order to stop the construction of a power station at the Honghai Bay development zone in Shanwei City, the defendants incited over a hundred villagers to throw explosives and napalm at the police on duty and to attack public security police on duty. Civilian police had to use tear gas and fire shots into the air to disperse the rioting crowd. Later on, the Shanwei government confirmed that three vilagers were killed and pointed out that a few trouble makers in Dongzhou village had incited villagers to make unreasonable requests for compensation of land expropriation, and therefore hindered construction." Mr. Li Jian, of the Civil Rights Defense Network, and some human rights advocates have carried out an independent investigation on the site where the event occurred and have concluded that the incident at Dongzhou was a bloody massacre of villagers. They are now pushing for a fair resolution within a legal framework. In their "Investigation Report," Li pointed out: "The police do not have any legal ground to stand on to open fire to shoot and kill the villagers, nor do they have excuses such as so-called counterattack in self-defense while protecting the power plant, etc. It is obviously a misuse of power. The Dongzhou massacre was entirely a planned and organized murder by the local government and was aimed at Dongzhou's human rights activists. The purpose was to suppress and terminate human rights activities in Dongzhou and neighboring villages [where people] seek to protect [their] legal property rights, for example by protesting local officials' illegal profiteering in land acquisition." Li also pointed
out: "When the bloody event occurred, the local police and the
villagers kept at a distance from each other. That is sufficient prove
that the police could not have been attacked. The bloody incident
did not happen by accident. It happened because the police initiated
the attack, and the villagers were desperately defending themselves."
Back Chinese web cartoonist Pan Qi, who uses the name Dailicunzhang, became a sensation overnight. Within one year, Pan Qi published five collections of his work—some 700 cartoons. Many of his cartoons were featured on the popular Cat898.com forum and attracted many fans. The Internet monitoring team of the Siping City Public Security Bureau soon noticed Pan's popularity and works. Last December, the Bureau visited Mr. Pan's home and spoke with him, claiming that his cartoons are too extreme and have misled Internet users. After the Bureau's visit, Pan Qi's works have disappeared from online forums. While following up on this story, The Epoch Times uncovered a shocking personal story about Pan Qi. After a car accident fourteen years ago, Mr. Pan was rushed to the General Hospital of the People's Armed Police in Jilin Province for rescue. In addition to delayed treatment and complications after the surgery, six years later, Pan Qi discovered he was missing a kidney. Delays in Emergency Treatment and Complications After Surgery On October 25, 1992, Pan Qi was involved in a car accident on Yitong road in Jilin Province. He was sent to the General Hospital of the People's Armed Police in Jilin in Kuancheng District of Changchun City for emergency treatment. Pan's surgery was delayed for over ten hours, waiting for a doctor from the third section of the general surgery department, which is responsible for organ transplant surgery. It was not until the next morning this doctor and another one from the first section of the general surgery department operated on Pan Qi together for over three hours. Pan's relatives said that later, a nurse holding a plastic bag told Pan's family that his spleen burst and was removed. The plastic bag she held was filled with blood dregs about the size of half a cigarette case. When Pan's relative asked to see it, the nurse refused. In August 1998, six years after the surgery, Pan Qi went to the China-Japan Union Hospital in Changchun City for a physical checkup. During his B-type ultrasonic inspection, the doctor asked Pan if his left kidney was surgically removed, because it could not be found. After multiple checks without any success, the doctor took an X-ray that proved Pan's left kidney was missing. The whereabouts
of Pan Qi's kidney is still a mystery. Could it be possible that doctors
in China are daring and unethical enough to harvest organs from their
living patients without consent? Back Bank of China (Hong Kong) headquarters. (AFP/Getty Images)] On May 18th, 2006, Bank of China launched its $9.9 billion Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the Hong Kong Stock Market. However, according to some Chinese economic experts, it indicates the collapsing of China's financial system. The bank hopes to overcome the crisis by raising capital overseas. China expert and executive editor of Hong Kong Open Magazine, Ms. Cai Yongmei said, "These banks should have been bankrupt already if the Chinese government did not support them. The purpose of IPO in the Hong Kong stock market is to transfer the risk to overseas markets." Ms. Cai said, "I believe that the Chinese government's crisis will start from financial fields." She said that IPO on overseas stock markets is not risk-free for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) either, "Now that you are part of the international financial system, the banks will lose their ground as soon as there is any financial issue in the market. This may drag down not only the banks, but also the CCP government." However, Bank of China Chairman Xiao Gang claims that the bank is performing well and has a prosperous financial future. Ms. Cai does not agree with Xiao. She contends that any numbers from the CCP are not reliable. "We all know how capable the CCP can be when creating false numbers. The bank's data for the IPO are not reliable; owning such stocks in the long run could be very risky." Ms. Cai reminds investors that they may profit in the short term, but long term risk is very high. Ms. Cai pointed out that because of the conspiracy between the banks and the Chinese regime, Chinese banks continue to have scandals, including Bank of China. Ms. Cai said,
"These people turned state-owned properties into their personal
properties. But none of them was charged. This is an issue of supervision
and monitoring." Ms. Cai mentioned another classic case. Liu
Jinbao, President of the Hong Kong branch of Bank of China, "illegally
lent enormous amounts of funds to state-owned enterprises. These funds
were never paid back." Hong Kong media reported that the typical
way for Bank of China to deal with this kind of bad debt of state-owned
Chinese companies was to write it off. There are many such cases.
Back The Chinese writing system is among the most complicated in the world. However, there is an infant in China who is learning it with ease. According to Beijing Science and Technology News, at the tender age of ten months, child genius Zhuangzhuang is able to recognize 2000 Chinese characters and practice simple arithmetic before he can even tie his shoes. Zhuangzhuang began recognizing words when he was four months old, and at six months, he could read 1000 characters. Within another four months, Zhuangzhuang doubled his previous knowledge. For an average one-year-old child, it is impossible to distinguish the patterns of the characters, yet Zhuangzhang is doing much more. Zhuangzhuang's story is a clearly a unique one, and is no doubt baffling researchers. Zhuangzhuang's incredible story begans soon after his birth on June 19, 2005. Upon the father's first gaze at his child, he noticed something strange. He felt that the child looked at him in a very unique way—a way that he could not clearly describe or express. Zhungzhuang's parents soon came to understand that their newborn baby was indeed different from others. From the very start, it seemed as though he understood everything. According to Zhuangzhuang's parents, only three months after birth their baby was already very sensitive to colors and different kinds of patterns. When Zhuangzhuang was about four months old, they tried to show him some flashcards with patterns and words on them. His mother observed that as long as she described to him the content of the card, he could always pick up the correct card given a choice. Moreover, Zhuangzhuang began recognizing Chinese characters. At only four months old, the child had knowledge of over 50 Chinese characters. Upon discovering their child's unique and mysterious gift, Zhuangzhuang's parents took it upon themselves to nurture his gift and guide him. When the baby reached six months old, he was not only able to read over 1000 Chinese words, but could also recognize English words and numbers. On top of this, he could also practice simple arithmetic, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Within two more months, Zhuangzhuang developed the capability to play word riddles. Now, at ten months old, Zhuangzhuang has undergone testing that indicates he is able to understand over 2000 characters. At present, little
is known about baby Zhuangzhuang, yet the information that has been
gathered is enough to present serious questions to the given theories
developed from modern cognitive research. Back American government, university researchers, and others are taking greater interest in U.S. companies' compliance with the Chinese Communist regime's demands for the right to do business in China. Legislation to stop American business from caving into Communist China's demands may be inevitable, according to "The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms" by Professor James L. Heskett of the Harvard Business School. The so-called lawful business activities of American companies in China "violate international law and the right to freedom of expression as defined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration [of Human Rights, a resolution of the General Assembly of the U.N.]" according to Lucie Morillon of Reporters Without Borders. Caving in, Standing
Firm or Leaving Companies appear to have chosen compliance. Among the most frequently named collaborators with Communist China are Microsoft, MSN, Yahoo, Google, Cisco, Motorola, and Nokia. Cisco is the father of the Chinese firewall that allows the Chinese Communist regime the ability to build the biggest censorship system the world has even known. Motorola has provided China high-tech Advanced Location Tracing, which gives the Chinese regime the ability to find an individual that wishes to hide from the arm of China's police. According to Gutmann, Sun Microsystems is selling China "surveillance equipment that allows for fingerprint recognition, facial recognition, which can be used in bathrooms and waiting areas." At the hearing in April Congressman Smith remarked, "The most essential pillars that prop up totalitarian regimes are the secret police and propaganda. Yet, for the sake of market share and profits, leading US companies like Google, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft have compromised the integrity of their product and their duties as responsible citizens." U.S. companies have bent over backwards to help the Chinese Communist Party in power. But, that's not all. America has much more to worry about, should China catch up with America's technology. "American companies are now moving research and development into China on a vast scale. Most of this research and development has military and security implications. This technology is not public and is going straight to the Peoples Liberation Army." Back European
Parliament Vice-President Strongly Supports CCP Withdrawals Back HONG KONG – Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, a Vice-President of the European Parliament embarked on a three-day "journey of exploring the truth" in mainland China that started on May 21. The CCP Still
Has Not Changed According to Mr. McMillan-Scott, in mainland China, 1.2 to 1.3 billion people are still lacking freedom. Many places in the world have given up one party dictatorship, only China seems to be embracing it. Mr. McMillan-Scott met with many diplomats, experts, scholars, NGOs and individuals in Hong Kong. The Vice-President also chose to meet with some Falun Gong practitioners to better understand the truth of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. McMillan-Scott said the only conclusion he could draw is that: The CCP is a system of "atrocity, despotism and bigotry". He announced that he would expose specific details at a seminar on Saturday. Mr. McMillan-Scott said that Falun Gong, a new religious movement, has become a significant factor in the political machine, but it is the Chinese communist regime, not Falun Gong, that has made it so. He was very interested in meeting Falun Gong practitioners in China because he believes Falun Gong is too important to be neglected. He said, "When they told me about their experiences, I felt very sad, not only for them, but also for each and every religious group persecuted by the Chinese communist regime." He said frankly that there could be no proper discussion over China's human rights, because no human right exists at all in China. Mr. McMillan-Scott added, "I hope all CCP members would tear up their party certificate once they became aware of the truth." "I think we need more information," concluded Mr. McMillan-Scott. "Before the 2008 Olympic Games, world human rights organizations need to unite their forces and focus on China's communist regime, because, after all, it is the biggest and most hard-line regime still left in the world." Back |
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