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Posted by FoM on June 26, 2001 at 07:12:53 PT By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press 
China executed at least 56 people for drug crimes and staged mass rallies nationwide Tuesday to mark a U.N. anti-drug day. Thousands of people attended a rally at a stadium in Kunming, capital of southwestern Yunnan province, where 20 alleged drug traffickers were sentenced to death, said a city police official. Using remote-control detonators, government officials ignited 2 tons of confiscated heroin placed in large metal pans and doused with gasoline. State television carried the spectacle live on its noon news broadcast. The executions were carried out immediately afterward at a separate location, the Kunming police official said. Separately on Tuesday, eight people in the central city of Wuhan and five people on the southern island of Hainan were executed for drug trafficking. Yunnan police also executed Li Shaoju, a citizen of Myanmar, on Monday for smuggling more than 300 pounds of heroin, opium, and morphine from Myanmar to China, newspapers reported. In coastal Fujian province, five Taiwanese citizens were executed on Monday for attempting to smuggle crystal methamphetamine -- also known as "ice" -- across the strait to Taiwan. Eighteen heroin traffickers were also executed Monday in Chongqing in southwestern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. China has detained 15,000 suspected drug dealers and seized 2.2 tons of heroin, 1.2 tons of opium, and 2 tons of "ice," in the first five months of the year, state media reported. In particular, "ice" and Ecstacy are being produced in larger amounts, Jia Chunwang, the Minister of Public Security said in comments published in the English-language China Daily. The number of registered drug addicts in China has risen from 681,000 in 1999 to 860,000 in 2000, according to the Ministry of Public Security. Police have carried out hundreds of executions since April under a renewed crime crackdown that allows speeded up trials and broader use of the death penalty. Executions are usually carried out by a gunshot to the back of the head. Source: Associated Press Related Articles: China Executes Dealers on Drug Day U.S. & China Agree on Measures To Fight Drugs Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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Comment #4 posted by kaptinemo on June 27, 2001 at 06:17:39 PT:
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| Chinese Doctor Tells Of Organ Removals After Executions http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49239-2001Jun26.html The latest step in a natural progression. The slide from freedom to tyranny is rarely an abrupt shock; it's usually a very long, slow crawl. And death awaits at the very end. And our DrugWarriors fawn over these bloody-handed butchers? [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by Mr. Bumstead on June 26, 2001 at 15:44:55 PT |
| If you kill all the people that demand the drugs, then supply will dry up? Hey at least we don't have to worry about heroin overdoses anymore... we can just kill them now! Maybe we should send George W. Bush some e-mail? president@whitehouse.gov I have him in my contact list. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by observer on June 26, 2001 at 08:55:54 PT |
| 56 people for drug crimes and staged mass rallies nationwide Tuesday to mark a U.N. anti-drug day. Thousands of people attended a rally at a stadium in Kunming, capital of southwestern Yunnan province, where 20 alleged drug traffickers were sentenced to death, said a city police official. note: drug "offenders" ... including users, users that perhaps were too critical of government. Well, at any rate: I guess the hard-core drug warriors are right, Mao's "get tough" policy really "solved" China's drug problem, huh? And the tough-love policy "solved" the problem so very well, government needed to keep "solving" the crisis every week (by executing more drug users who cannot bribe their way out), the problem was "solved" so good. I think I know what many hard-core drug-warrior "problem solvers" have in mind for Amerika, too. The drug-warriors love America so much, they just want the power to execute drug "offenders" (et al.), so they can "solve" the problem, just like China. China doesn't hold back their gung-ho drug warriors, gung-ho drug warriors in the USA cry.
http://www.google.com/search?q=china+organ+trade+executed+drug [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by J.R. Bob Dobbs on June 26, 2001 at 08:53:31 PT |
| Well, at least it's nice to know we here in the US don't have a monopoly on presidential hypocrisy: Chinese President Jiang sings duet with Pavarotti The 66-year-old singer was joined by the Chinese leader in a rendition of "O Sole Mio" at a lunch for Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras on Monday, the Hong Kong iMail reported. The lunch was held in honour of the opera stars following their Saturday night concert in the Forbidden City attended by 30,000 people. "We finished the day drinking - a little drink, just so you don't think we were singing because we were drunk" [ Post Comment ] |
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