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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 05:47:28 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: SNET: Chinese melt 15,000 guns (fwd)

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>
>Hi!
>
>Just a little info culled from news reports about China; there was a lot
>of other human rights info, which certainly confirms recent postings here
>that said that gun confiscation is only part of a much larger problem.  To
>save bandwidth, am just posting the gun confiscation stuff.  If anybody's
>also interested in the UN Human Rights Commission resolution (which will
>fail), the suit against three major U.S. retailers for mislabelling as
>"Made in Hong Kong" clothes that were actually made in China (a suit which
>could bring in millions for the U.S. government, yet the government has
>declined to join the case), and/or the latest on an imprisoned Chinese
>dissident, please contact me offline, and will send that info along to
>you.
>
>An AP story from 4/12 reports that more than 15,000 firearms were melted
>down at a steel factory in Beijing.  The guns were confiscated under a
>10/96 law that makes gun possession illegal.  This law was passed as part
>of an "anti- crime" drive that initially began last April.
>
>The AP story whitewashes the human cost of this "anti-crime"  initiative
>by saying that the law provides "possible jail sentences for offenders"
>but keeping silent on the alternative and widely used punishment, which is
>death. According to AP and Reuters news reports from a year ago, even
>before the new Chinese gun confiscation law, tens of thousands of Chinese,
>including store owners who had built flimsy homemade firearms to protect
>themselves from thugs, have been convicted of the "crime" of gun ownership
>and have then been immediately taken away and shot.
>
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