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June 24, 2007 (Sunday) － Issue No. 107 |
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3000 Year Old Gold Mask Exhibits in China |
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Child
Slaves Labor in Chinese Brick Factories |
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CCP
Condemns Bush's Speech While Chinese Scholars Ponder Its Truths |
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Chinese Student Association President Speaks about Chinese Consulate
Control Some Chinese students believe that the NYUCCC, a Chinese club trying to sabotage NTDTV's Chinese dance competition, is controlled and funded by the Chinese Consulate. What exactly is the relationship between CSSAs and Chinese consulates in different countries?....…Full Article |
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Japan Holds Parade to Support 23 Million People Quitting the CCP Japan's Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a rally and parade in Nagoya City, Aichi County on July 17 to support the 23 million people who have renounced their ties with the CCP and its affiliated organizations......…Full Article |
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The 3000-year-old gold mask excavated at the Jinsha relic site went on exhibition to the public for the first time in Jinsha Relic Museum, Chengdu city on June 9. The gold mask was excavated from the No. 8 Jinsha archeological site, Chengdu city, China in 2006. It weighs 46 grams and is 19.5cm wide, 11cm high, and 0.4mm thick. Scientists speculate that the mask was originally attached to another object, and has a history of about 3000 years, which covers the late Shang Dynasty (1700BC ~ 1046BC) to early West Zhou Dynasty (1046BC ~ 771BC). The Chengdu Archeology Institute says that archeologists have found other peculiar items such as a bronze mask and a jade instrument from the same site, according to a report by Mingpao. The No. 8 site is located on the south part of the Jinsha Relic Museum, according to Wang Yi, the dean of the Archeology Institute. Mr Wang says they began the excavation on that site in late 2006, but have had the most important findings in the last 6 years at that site. Mr Wang says a total of 342 items have been excavated from the site. There are 45 gold items, 88 bronze items, 194 jade items, 8 stone items, 4 ivory items, and 3 pottery items. Of all the items found, the gold mask is the most precious object, Mr Wang says. The mask is the largest and best preserved gold mask to be discovered for its historical period. When it was first unearthed it was beyond recognition, but it became recognizable after archeologists preserved it. The mask has a rectangular shape with a flat forehead; two long, knife-shaped protruding eyebrows, a pair of triangular eyes, a triangular nose, a wide mouth, and two rectangular ears with a hole on each earlobe. A small gold mask
was also excavated from the Jinsha site in 2001. Back Lured off the street and sold for a pittance, over a thousand school-aged children have been working as slaves in brick factories in China's Shanxi Province. The conditions described are atrocious: children as young as 8 hauling bricks for over ten hours a day and facing regular beatings. Yet a government response has been slow in coming, and allegations are swirling that officials have been paid off in exchange for inaction. According to media reports, local authorities have been reluctant to take action to stop the child slavery, ignoring the please of parents. Reports from mainland media state that most of the children were lured or kidnapped by smugglers from Zhenzhou train stations, bus stations, under bridges, or on the streets. The children were reportedly sold for approximately $65 each to brick factories in Shanxi Province. Organized Crime
Protected Beijing Youth reported on June 15, 2007, that a son of a Party Chief in Caosheng Village owns one of the underground brick factories in Hongdong County and receives special protection from government officials. Chai Wei, father of a child slave, said that he once tried to save some children from a brick factory in Linyi County. However, police refused to help because the owner of the factory was a powerful man. In the end, Chai only saved seven children. On another occasion, Chai was bluntly refused help by police from Yongji County. According to the Henan TV Station City Channel, a parent found his child in a brick factory with the aid of the police. At the same time, he found another child from the same town he was from and wanted to take that child back. The local police
told him the factory spent hundreds of yuan to purchase the child
and said, "You just find your child and leave others' business
alone." Back California—The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) recently granted its Courageous Advocacy Award to Mr. Gao Zhisheng, a famous human rights lawyer in Beijing, and invited him to receive the award on June 30 in the U.S. Currently, The Global Coalition in Support of Attorney Gao Zhisheng has launched an internet petition to appeal for support from the U.S. government to facilitate Gao's trip. Gao expressed his willingness to visit the U.S. and said he would try his best to make the award ceremony, although the regime has set up all kinds of barriers to stop his U.S. trip, including not issuing him a passport. Early this year, the regime had also put a renowned Chinese AIDS activist Gao Yaojie on house arrest to bar her from receiving an award personally in U.S. In spokeswoman for the Coalition, Ms. Zhang Xuerong's opinion, Gao Zhisheng deserves the courageous advocacy award. She pointed out that Gao Zhisheng has won tremendous support from people because he is righteous and is not afraid of facing the Chinese communist regime. He continues to use peaceful means to fight for human rights and justice. Even when his life was threatened by the communist regime, he never compromised. Gao Zhisheng has written three open letters to the communist regime leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao to protest against the regime's persecution of Falun Gong and called for an immediate end to the barbaric genocide which is destroying the conscience and morality of the Chinese nationality. Consequently, Gao and his family continue to be harassed by the regime, their lives are threatened and Gao was illegally detained for eight months last year. During his detention, Gao was beaten up and tortured. After his release, Gao was placed under house arrest again and everyday he and his family are watched by more than 100 plain clothes police and spies. Spokesperson for the Coalition, Wu Fan said that it is an honor for China's legitimate legal circle that Gao Zhisheng was given the award. He said, "If the regime denies Gao's trip to the U.S. to receive the award, this would clearly reveal the regime's pledge to build a harmonious society is simply a lie after all" Since the coalition
was formed in February 2005 to rescue Gao Zhisheng, currently 146
organizations have joined in the coalition. Back HONG KONG—President Bush denounced the brutality and inhumanity of communist totalitarian powers when he attended dedication of Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, D.C. on June 12. He said that the ideology of communism and its followers caused the deaths of tens of millions of people. Qin Gang, spokesman of the China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed "strong discontent and indignation" over Bush's speech. Chinese media report that China "had made a solemn representation to Washington." Some Chinese researchers, however, think Bush's speech reflects the truth and that defending human rights has universal value. Bush Mentions
China Twice Zhuang Zuhua, a Beijing scholar, thinks Bush's speech is appropriate. He said Bush's speech reflects the truth. Additionally, he believes human rights, liberty and democracy are universal values; Zhang said, "In the last century, two social ideological movements, namely communism and fascism, brought tremendous disasters to human beings, especially to people living in the communist countries. The disasters include loss of property, freedom and lives. For example, in China and the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people were killed because of these movements." Don't Forget History Sun said that
President Bush talked about Chinese history. As for the massive human
rights violations in China now, these were not mentioned. Back The 2007 Chinese Classical Dance Competition that is scheduled to take place at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University aims at promoting Chinese dance and traditional Chinese culture. Recently the New York University Chinese Culture Club (NYUCCC) published a statement attacking the competition in order to stop it from happening. Mr. Chen Yonglin, a former Chinese diplomat in Sydney, says that the NYUCCC has been established and controlled by the Chinese Consulate in New York. Mr. Yang Lixin is able to speak from his own experience as a three-term vice-president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) in Belgium about the role played by NYUCCC. Below is an interview reported from NTDTV in Brussels. Some Chinese students believe that the NYUCCC, a Chinese club trying to sabotage NTDTV's Chinese dance competition, is controlled and funded by the Chinese Consulate. What exactly is the relationship between CSSAs and Chinese consulates in different countries? With this question in mind we interviewed Mr. Yang Lixin, who was a three-term vice-president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) in Brussels, Belgium. Yang: "In fact many activities of the CSSAs are joint efforts of the associations and the Chinese consulates, which carry out part of their political mission by mobilizing the CSSAs. Of course the consulates, especially the education division, will provide funding." Responding to the actions of NYUCCC, Yang expressed his views, saying "Many Chinese students studying overseas think that maintaining a good relationship with the Chinese Consulates is a way to show their patriotism; they love their country, but have erroneously equated the Chinese communist regime with China." Yang: "I think that in reality Chinese students oftentimes may not know the orders issued by the consulates and the real purpose behind those orders, most of which have political goals. The overseas Chinese students should at least form their own opinions and judgments instead of being used as a political tool by the Chinese consulates. Otherwise they will discover that they have often been used." Back Nagoya,
Japan Holds Parade to Support 23 Million People Quitting the CCP Back Japan's Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a rally and parade in Nagoya City, Aichi County on July 17 to support the 23 million people who have renounced their ties with the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Participants gathered at Sakae Hiroba Park in downtown Nagoya around noon for a fifty-minute rally. The rally hosts included Kunio Sato, the representative of the Japan branch of the Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP, Hiroyoshi Sawa, a reporter for the Japanese edition of The Epoch Times , and Osamu Kamiya, a former Nagoya University professor. The three indicated in their speeches that the CCP dictatorship has destroyed traditional Chinese culture and caused rapid degeneration of morality in society. The hosts also mentioned that in addition to playing a direct role in environmental pollution, the CCP is responsible for the spread of the abundance of sham medication and poisonous food in China. Furthermore, they have severely violated the human rights of the Chinese public, particularly practitioners of Falun Gong. Having committed countless atrocious acts, such as the brutal harvesting of organs from live bodies, the hosts asserted that the CCP is in the verge of disintegration. During the rally, Dr. Yang Guiyuan, M.D., told the story of how he had been illegally sentenced to forced labor by the CCP for insisting on practicing Falun Gong. He mentioned the numerous torture methods he was subjected to while in the labor camp, and called for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. Dr. Yang was granted Japanese visa through the assistance of his relatives in Japan. After the rally, participants raised banners reading, "Spread the words of the Nine Commentaries to benefit our nation," "The root of the evil CCP has been revealed," and marched across downtown Nagoya for two hours. During the procession, a team of waist-drummers caught the attention of by-passers. A student at a private university in Kyoto said that people in Japan, especially students, are not fully aware of the human rights violations in China. He also mentioned that it is a shame that even though there are many students from China on campus, they rarely mention problems of human rights or environmental pollution in China. Back |
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