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July 1, 2007 (Sunday) － Issue No. 108 |
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Hundreds of Veterans Appeal and Are Beaten and Arrested |
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Hong
Kong Marches for Democracy on July 1 |
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China's
Military Paper Opposes Army Nationalization |
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Slavery and Organ Harvesting After reading the shocking news of Shanxi Province's underground brick factory —which uncovered children and the handicapped sold into slavery to work 16 to 20 hours a day—I couldn't help but think of the organ harvesting program targeting living Falun Gong practitioners....…Full Article |
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Man Arrested for Sending Epochtime Newspaper to Party Chief Ma Shiping, was arrested by the local police for sending a newspaper report from the Chinese Epoch Times (ET) to Wang Zhonglin, the Party Chief of Tengzhou City Committee. Local media worker Qi Chonghuai, was also harassed by the police for providing Ma's contact to The Epoch Times ......…Full Article |
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CHINA—In the morning of June 20, 2007, hundreds of unemployed veterans in Guangzhou City appealed in front of the provincial government building. The local police beat and arrested some of them. Former Major Xie Shuqing, representative for the unemployed veterans, was intercepted by police before arriving at the appeal and seriously injured and hospitalized. According to a veteran at the scene, there were about 400 veterans who appeared at the appeal. Five of them went into the appeals office while the rest waited outside. Soon the authority sent over a hundred police officers with six buses and shouted at them with a loud speaker, "It's illegal to appeal and you must disperse." Among those appealing were women, seniors, and others who were disabled. Some wore their many service medals on their uniforms. "Four or five officers pushed a female veteran into a car. There was blood on her hands and ankles from the struggle. Police locked appellants inside a gymnasium, took down their names and addresses, and informed their neighborhood committees to take them away," said one veteran. Another veteran said because most officials in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City obtained their positions through bribery, they wouldn't talk to the people. Major Xie Beaten at Police Station In the morning of the appeal, 53-year-old Xie Shuqing was about to leave home, when about 30 officers were already waiting in front of the home to arrest her. Xie said, "About ten of them wore uniforms, none of them showed their badges. They showed me a subpoena. I told them I had to go to an appeal, one officer said, 'We are here to not let you appeal.' I refused to go with them, then they twisted my hands to my back and pushed me into a car." Xie was taken to the Chigang Street Police Station in Zhuhai District, Guangzhou City, and brutally beaten. Xie was an army major before she left the service. Xie's injuries were severe enough that she needed to be hospitalized. Her husband, also an unemployed former military official, is out of town and is also looking for a job. Now, only other veterans will care for her. Veterans Have No Recourse Recently, the
Chinese Communist Party military announced a new regulation authorizing
severe punishment for military organizations that participate in demonstrations
or appeals.
Back Hong Kong police should lift the restrictions that it imposed on the annual march on July 1 this year, according to a decision on Tuesday of Hong Kong's appeal board that oversees public rallies and processions in the city. The appeal board rules that the police should open three lanes for the march and should extend the opening hours of the government headquarters to 7 p.m. According to the original police plan, only one lane of the roads would be open to the marchers, who would not be allowed to enter the government headquarters building after 6 p.m. as they did in the July 1 march in past years. Legislative councilor Lee Cheuk-yan, who attended the hearing, is quoted by Apple Daily saying the chairman of the appeal board, former Supreme Court judge Raymond Arthur William Sears, found the police's restrictions this year unusual and worried about the marches' safety if they were to march in one lane of a road next to two lanes of moving traffic. Civil Human Rights Front, organizer of the annual July 1 march, welcomes the appeal board's decision, according to Apple Daily, and said the ruling shows that the restrictions set by the police were completely unreasonable. Commenting in an interview with New Tang Dynasty Television last week on the police's restrictions, Law Yuk Kai, Director of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor (HKHRM), said they are signs of the regression of freedoms in Hong Kong. He questioned why the government and the police would give priority to other users of the road by limiting the marches to only one lane, noting that this is in fact discrimination against those who choose to express their opinions through peacefully marching in public. Hong Kong's Executive Chief Donald Tsang and Chief Secretary for Administration Rafael Hui Si-yan have the responsibility to look into this matter, said Law. Among other regressions of freedoms in the former British colony, Law cited a number of cases in which he thinks Falun Gong adherents have been treated discriminatorily, including the use of laws for regulating hawkers to press charges against Falun Gong adherents who demonstrated peacefully outside the China Liaison Office in March 2002. The difficulties that Falun Gong adherents have in renting venues for their activities as well as the Hong Kong media's silence about their large-scale protests are among other examples cited by Law as discrimination against Falun Gong in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was
returned by Britain to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997 as a Self
Administrative Region (SAR) with the agreement of "one country,
two systems." In 2002 the attempt of the Chinese regime to impose
a set of "national security" laws in the city to curb freedoms
triggered growing discontent among the residents. Back My father used to be in charge of the Education Division of the Chinese Embassy in France. I had the opportunity to see and hear how the CCP, through every possible avenue, placed its special agents and bought off local Chinese to be their special agents in foreign counties. Overseas Media
Control Overseas Student
Organizations Stimulating Student
Loyalty Is there any difference between a student organization such as this and the secret service of the CCP? They are only hidden by their student status. Yet it is the students who are the real victims. CCP Targets Overseas
Chinese Leaders CHINA—The Chinese Communist Regime's People's Liberation Army Daily (a military newspaper) published an article that strongly opposed the nationalization of the army. The article said, "Once the army is nationalized, the communist party will no longer have absolute control of it, and the socialist nature of the country will be obliterated." The article has met with some criticism. Analysts say that on the eve of 80 years of the communist army's existence, the fact that the article was published indicates that the voice inside the communist party seeking nationalization of the army is very loud. Experts said that military nationalization is symbolic of whether or not a country has democracy. If a harmonious society needs an army to protect it, the purpose of the army is questionable. According to a report in China Times , before the communist party's 17th Congress, any slight commotion can bring about conjecture. In April the regime's leader Hu Jintao frequently emphasized to the army that "it is important to obey the communist party's command;" which resulted in strong support for Hu from the high-ranking army officers. As the reformation wave ripples through China, thoughts of democracy are also rising inside China, and the voice to nationalize the army becomes stronger and stronger. Some analysts believe that under the single-party autocracy, nationalization of the army is in the foreseeable future. However, the communist party cannot tolerate such opinions. Hong Kong critic of military affairs, Ma Ding-shing said, "The talk of army nationalization cannot be openly discussed inside China because even such so-called reformists as Premier Wen Jiabao still insist that the system of a single-party autocracy will not change for a 100 years." Ma also said that the most popular reason for refusing military nationalization in China is that stability is paramount; with no stability, there is no development and no economic prosperity. So China needs the army to maintain order and stability. But Critic Wu Fen said, the army is there to protect the country from outside invasion. An army doesn't exist to ensure the safety of the society—that is the job of the police. Ma Ding-shing said, "What is the biggest problem of having a non-nationalized army? The biggest defect is that the army becomes the communist party's tool to persecute different voices. The most obvious example is the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The leader of the communist party gave orders for the army to attack its own people." Taiwan chief editor
of Defense International Cheng Chi-wen said, "The Chinese Communist
Party views Taiwan Kuoming Tang as a warning. If the army is nationalized,
it will lose its power." Back After reading the shocking news of Shanxi Province's underground brick factory —which uncovered children and the handicapped sold into slavery to work 16 to 20 hours a day—I couldn't help but think of the organ harvesting program targeting living Falun Gong practitioners. One need only observe those who live in, or who have come out of, the "New China." These people have been raised on thoughts of a flowering nation, a prosperous time, a grand nation rising, or a society of harmony? How can such people imagine or believe news of child slavery or an organ harvesting program ? They can only become angry when this truth is revealed. As renowned human rights attorney, Gao Zhisheng, once said, "There is only what they [the Chinese communist regime] can't think of, there is nothing they can't do." Shocking and Audacious Driven by Profit Criminals by Any
Name What about the criminals that conduct the organ harvesting program? They include medical doctors, committing crimes in labor camps, detention centers, prisons, and hospitals, and the military. Who is the highest-ranking criminal in this case? The highest-ranking officials of the CCP orchestrate this persecution, so who can we rely on to rescue these victims? Scale and Level
of Crimes Man
Arrested for Sending Overseas Chinese Newspaper to Party Chief Back
The Chinese Epoch Times report was about the life of a soldier's family member who was beaten by a government official in Shandong Province. "Ma Shiping is an upright person," Qi Chonghuai, a correspondent of Legal System Morning Post (Fazhi Zaobao) in Shandong Province, told an ET reporter. "He's a local warrior for exposing the corruption. Thus, all the officials and committee members of Tengzhou City are afraid of him," Qi said. Ma sent the report to the Party Chief, hoping the committee would solve the problem exposed in the Epoch Times report. Not long afterwards Ma went missing. Ma's friends looked everywhere only to find he had been detained on June 16 and is now facing a jail sentence. Now the local people are trying very hard to rescue him and hope The Epoch Times will expose the news to the public since other Chinese national media will not be able to report it. Ma's friend told the ET reporter that Ma is a retired soldier. He has always defended disadvantaged groups against injustices so he is quite influential among the local people. Ma's wife received a Criminal Detention Document on June 19 stating that Ma is at Tengzhou City Detention Center currently, and is going to be sentenced. Qi told the ET reporter that two plainclothes criminal investigation policemen from Tengzhou City appeared in his office in Jinan City at 4:00 p.m. on June 19. They were rude and irrational. They demanded Qi come to the police office with them but Qi declined. So they called the local police office and asked them to summons Qi. The local police office could not do it because they did not have the document from Tengzhou City PSB. In Qi's office, the two policemen began their interrogation, by yelling, "Who provided the lead to The Epoch Times newspaper? How could The Epoch Times report the news? Who's the reporter? What's your relationship with Ma?" Qi told them, "Ma is my friend. I provided the news story to The Epoch Times . And I'll provide more to The Epoch Times tomorrow, including what you've done today." The ET reporter called Tengzhou City PSB several times on June 20 but was told to call the propaganda department, and when he did no one answered the phone. The reporter then called Tengzhou City Committee, and was told their leader was not available and he was in a meeting. Back |
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