A few months ago i submitted articles on the forum regarding China's policy of female infanticide and abortion and it's devastating effects on women in the region. Now, WND released an article how the gov't intentionally ignore's the plight of disabled children who are sold into becoming slave beggars.
Where's Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch, they can spend their time and money claiming Israeli "occupation" has forced to "Palestinians" into destitution. Though the last time I checked, if they put down their opuium and detontors and pursued something constructive they could be marginally successful as Israel, and she doesn't even have all their handouts form the EU and UN.
Anyway, the point is that history has repeated itself. In 1936, the Int'l Olympic Committee voted to allow Nazi Germany to host the Olympic Games, which the Nazi's siezed as an oppurtunity to turn into a propoganda machine...why do we never learn?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56789Disabled children sold into slavery as beggars
Chinese racketeers living well by exploiting poverty, ignoranceWhile Chinese officials have been moving against Christian groups in order to eliminate messages contrary to official publicity releases as the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing approach, they have not been as scrupulous in cracking down on racketeers who buy disabled children from their parents and force them to work the streets as beggars.
According to the London Observer, thousands in China's capital are involved in the trafficking of the disabled.
Some, like Li Ji Hai and his wife, are small-time operators, having only two children they send out daily to beg for money – one a baby boy who is paralyzed from the waist down and the other a teenager they purchased for a few hundred yuan. The Chinese yuan exchanges to U.S. currency for about 13 cents.
"I know it's illegal," Li tells the Observer. "But begging has a long history in China. There's nothing to hide. Everybody has to make a living."
Other children are owned by businessmen who run very aggressive operations, visiting rural villages for children to purchase and bring back to Beijing.
Gao Zhou Zhou, approximately 15, was sold for $300 three years ago by her stepfather to a man she knows only as "uncle." Since then, the crippled girl, who is mobile only because of a homemade skateboard she sits on, has been working the crowds of tourists near Tiananmen Square from early morning to nightfall.
On a good day, she turns $40 over to "uncle." Not all days are good ones.
"When I first came here they beat me so hard I nearly died. They beat me and they beat me," she said.
According to Kate Wedgwood, the outgoing China director of Save the Children, as many as a million children have become separated from their parents as Chinese workers have moved from rural areas to cities in response to the booming economy. She estimates that 150,000 are looked after by the state but the rest – including many who are disabled – have been left to fend for themselves.
"A lot of it is about ignorance," said Wedgwood. "Often the parents don't know what existence they are selling their children into."
Many in China were shocked and angered by recent revelations the son of a Communist Party official was operating a kiln operated with slaves who were beaten and forced to work long days with little food or care.
Kiln owner Wang Bingbing was convicted Tuesday of unlawful detention for the use of slave laborers at his brick kiln in Shanxi province, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The supervisor of his plant received the death penalty after he was convicted of beating a mentally impaired man to death with a shovel because he wasn't working hard enough. A foreman, found guilty of intentionally injuring workers and illegal detention, received a life sentence.
The Beijing government refused to tell the Observer when and how it will clear the streets of its child beggars, but charity workers believe the disabled children will be removed before the 2008 Olympics and Paralympics begin.
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