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Chinese Regime Starts Violent Clampdown on Protesting Parents

By Samuel Spencer
Epoch Times New York Staff
Jun 03, 2008

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Parents of pupils killed when the Xinjian primary school collapsed in
the May 12 earthquake cry as they hold portraits of their loved ones
during a commemoration of Children's Day on the rubble-strewn school
campus on June 1, 2008 in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, China. Hundreds
of parents and relatives of killed pupils wore T-shirts with the slogan
'Severely Punish Corrupt and Shoddy Construction' during the tearful
gathering. (Andrew Wong/Getty Images)


After initially promising a full investigation into the widespread
collapse of school buildings in the Sichuan earthquake and to bring
those responsible to justice, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) changed
course on Tuesday, breaking up protests by parents of dead children, and
arresting some.

Over 100 police were reported to have been stationed outside Dujiangyan
People's Court in Sichuan province, where grieving parents have been
presenting their cases regularly since the earthquake.

Policemen reportedly manhandled protesters and then dragged them away
from the court. They also prevented parents from delivering their papers
to the court.

BBC News reported that in addition, officials removed wreaths left at
Xinjian Primary School. BBC quoted Xu Yan, whose 11-year-old daughter
died in the quake, as saying of the regime: "They went too far. They
have no consideration."

There was no official response on why the wreaths were removed.

Clampdown on Media

The crackdown on the protests comes shortly after the Chinese regime
ordered journalists to tone down stories critical of the quality of the
school buildings that are referred to in China as "tofu" for their poor
quality and strength.

In some districts, school buildings were the only ones to collapse while
several government buildings remained intact. The quake killed 69,000
people, many of whom were schoolchildren trapped under school buildings
that collapsed, and left China in a state of mourning.

Several Chinese are wondering whether the clampdown comes under the
orders of Zhou Yongkang, currently Secretary of the CCP's Central
Political and Legislative Committee, who was the Secretary of the
Sichuan Provincial Committee from 1999 to 2002, during which time
several school buildings of shoddy quality were built.

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China says its food not safe to eat

11th July 2007, 7:30 WST

An alarming admission by Beijing's food safety boss that the country's
food industry is so unhygienic that consumers risked disease has sparked
calls for tougher testing of the $400 million worth of Chinese produce
eaten each year by Australians.

China's food safety department head Sun Xiande issued the unprecedented
warning to Chinese media that hidden threats would “gradually emerge and
disease will likely gradually occur due to the harmful ingredients in
food” in light of a series of food safety scares in the US.

“Food safety accidents or events will not only affect the healthy
development of the entire (food) industry, but also possibly affect the
local economy and social stability,” he was reported as saying.

A former food and safety watchdog executive, Zheng Xiaoyu, was executed
yesterday after being found guilty of taking bribes to approve
substandard medicines.

The discovery on US supermarket shelves of Chinese pet food which
contained potentially poisonous chemicals started a recall of products
from the Asian giant, including juice which contained unsafe colour
additives and toothpaste laced with an industrial solvent.

The latest scare comes after repeated warnings from WA fruit and
vegetable growers that cheap Chinese imports were grown in sewage and
sprayed with DDT. Two years ago an international animal welfare group
raised concerns that fish farms in China were feeding infected chicken
manure to fish, some of which might be imported into Australia.

Shadow minister for primary industries, fisheries and forestry Kerry
O'Brien said the reports from China vindicated his call for the Howard
Government to introduce tougher standards on Chinese food imports.

“The Australian Government should follow the lead of the US Food and
Drug Administration and apply a 100 per cent testing regime on certain
food imports from China, effective immediately,” he said.

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics records show
that last year Australia imported more than $100 million of Chinese
seafood, including prawns, fish fillets, scallops and tinned fish
products. Total food imports from China are worth more than $400 million
a year and include fruit, vegetables and cereal.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand spokeswoman Lydia Buchtmann said
the situation in China was being monitored closely but the testing
process was rigorous.

The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service samples 5 per cent of
food imports, but in high-risk cases, such as seafood, it can opt to
sample 100 per cent. A spokesman for Fisheries Minister Eric Abetz said
AQIS was reviewing the testing of seafood coming in from China.

RHIANNA KING

CANBERRA

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