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  The Founding Declaration of the Chinese People's Party Boxun News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
After democracy prevails in China, the Party Chair, the maintaining or changing of Party Constitution, the rite of party joining and the rite of party quitting, and the organization of the party will be all decided by the voting of all the party members that have reached eighteen years.
Chinese people, from 1949 that the Communist Party took power to this year of 2005, has been oppressed by it for 56 years, and an important reason for it is that Chinese people hasn't done enough to oppose it.
From 1929 to 1933, several Chinese armies of the regional leaders, the Japanese army and the National Revolutionary Army, with the short form of National Army, led by Jiang Jieshi had intense fighting in China, which made it impossible for Jiang Jieshi to use his main force to deal with the expanding Communist Party.
www.peacehall.com /news/gb/english/2005/12/200512281039.shtml   (22736 words)

  
 New Page 2
Chinese dissidents in the United States claim the Clinton administration is capitulating to China by letting a Chinese sect leader sit in a jail in the US Territory, Guam, rather than act on his asylum bid.
Chinese embassy officials in Washington declined to answer calls on Zhang's case on Tuesday, or accusations by his supporters that their demands for his extradition are based on politically motivated charges.
Chinese followers of Zhonggong, a group similar to the banned Falungong spiritual movement, have appealed to the United States to grant their leader political asylum amid fears for his safety, a Hong Kong-based human rights group said Sunday.
hss.fullerton.edu /comparative/zhonggong.htm   (9764 words)

  
 Nanking Atrocities - Regin of Terror
Especially after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek officially declared that the Nationalist government of China would eventually transfer the capital from Nanking to Chungking and its military headquarters would be shifted to the transitional capital of Hankow on November 20, the scale of evacuation became much larger.
"The Chinese authorities agreed to the idea of the Zone, though the military were naturally reluctant to move out of the area before the very last minute," wrote American missionary Miner Searl Bates, a professor of History at the University of Nanking and a member of the International Committee, in April 1938.
In the propaganda campaign many missionaries were stigmatized as Americans who sacrificed Chinese people's lives to protect their property, who guided the Imperial Army of Japan into the city and who cooperated with the Japanese troops to round up prisoners of war in the refugee camps.
www.geocities.com /nankingatrocities/Terror/terror_02.htm   (1985 words)

  
 Exiled leader of Chinese spiritual movement charged in beating
The exiled leader of an outlawed Chinese spiritual movement has been charged with beating and kidnapping his housekeeper, the Pasadena Star-News reported Monday.
Chinese authorities began cracking down on Zhang's group shortly after a ban was imposed in 1999 on a similar and better-known sect, Falun Gong.
During his immigration process, Zhang's lawyer, Robert L. Shapiro, said his client had been falsely accused by the Chinese government of raping 20 women, forgery and illegal boundary crossing.
www.rickross.com /reference/zhong_gong/zhong_gong9.html   (573 words)

  
 Asia Finest Discussion Forum > China's drive to modernize Tibet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Chinese Government maintains that Tibet was "peacefully liberated" in 1951 from both imperialism and a brutal feudal system that was "hell on earth."3 According to this argument, Tibet has been transformed into a "Socialist Heaven" through the introduction of revolutionary socialist measures.
Most Chinese have a broad definition of what it means to be "Chinese." In sharp contrast to this, Tibetans maintain a very specific idea of what it means to be "Tibetan," and this concept reinforces a strong underlying "us vs. them" feeling of a separate Tibetan identity.
One reason for the Chinese-dominated commerce is that Chinese migrants entering Tibet use their clan and local village networks to support their own ethnic group; another factor is the use of guanxi (connections) among Chinese officials to exploit economic opportunities.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t17366-100.html   (13838 words)

  
 Fiji
However, during 2000 the HRC essentially ceased functioning from mid-May to mid-September 2000; one commissioner resigned, and the chair was accused of conflict of interest due to marriage to a government minister.
For example, a grandfather charged with raping a 10-year old girl was given a suspended sentence in January, but in another case in February, the guilty party was given a 3-month jail term.
Women's groups continued to push to have all rape cases heard in the High Court, where sentencing limits are higher; however, the accused decides where the case will be heard.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8308.htm   (8813 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Sorensen and Pilgrim, Lethal Injection
On July 30, 1964, Joseph Johnson, a fl man convicted of murdering a Chinese grocer during a robbery in Houston while on parole, walked the infamous "last mile" at the Walls Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, from death row to the death chamber.
It was fairly clear that the historical practice of lynching fl offenders for raping white victims in the South had been merely transformed and legitimized by subsequent "legal" executions by the state.
He had previously been arrested for molestation, aggravated assault, attempted rape, armed robbery, assault and battery, burglary, hit and run, possession of a sawed-off shotgun, possession of amphetamines, possession of marijuana, possession of an unregistered firearm, escape, theft, and driving while intoxicated.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exsorlet.html   (6759 words)

  
 Malaysia
In 1999 a women’s NGO issued a report that stated that the incidence of rape had increased 48 percent in the 5-year period from 1993 to 1998; more than 50 percent of all rape victims were under age 16.
Such a girl may be charged with "khalwat" or "close proximity" (the charge usually used to prosecute premarital or extramarital sexual relations), even if she is under the age of 18 and her partner is an adult.
In 1999 a women’s NGO issued a report that stated that the incidence of rape had increased 48 percent in the 5-year period from 1993 to 1998; more than 50 percent of all rape victims were under 16 years of age.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18252.htm   (20103 words)

  
 Raping chair first introduced
It appears that the contraption was in the form of a collapsible chair, with automatic clasps fixed to its arms and legs.
When a woman was put in the chair the clasps would spring to hold her arms and legs and then the chair would collapse to form a miniature bed.
In 1949 peasants are said to have found such a chair in a landlord's mansion in Szechuan.
www.world-sex-records.com /sex-227.htm   (188 words)

  
 An Example of Chinese Torture: Sexual Abuse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Li was left chained to the iron chair, and she kept vomiting all night.
The Chinese system can be harsh, and it can be corrupt, but in my experience, it is also attempts to be fair (after its own form), and it attempts to govern with the rule of law.
Chinese regime is particularly brutal on this sect.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1354946/posts?page=32   (8475 words)

  
 + : : Salween Watch : : +   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The "shipping company" is said to be jointly owned by a Chinese businessman and Ta Hsarm, Commander of the United Wa State Army's 418th Division, who was implicated in the 354 kg heroin haul in April 2002, according to New Era, June 2002 issue.
Sixty-four billion baht was needed for restoring natural water sources, 60 billion baht for providing drinking water to each village, 54 billion baht for building reservoirs, 27 billion for putting in a disaster warning system and relief operations, and about 20 billion for diversion of water resources from neighbouring countries.
Natural resources deputy permanent secretary Siripong Hangsapruk, who chaired a joint meeting of the ministries yesterday, said the government needs to find another 20,000 million cubic metres of water each year to meet water demand.
www.salweenwatch.org /news/No.20.php   (7642 words)

  
 Misc. Action, Adventure and War
Joe Don Baker is a tough neer-do-well who is hired to steal the statue from a Chinese mobster (Ti Lung) and deliver it to an insane rich man in LA (Burgess Meredith who chews the scenery with complete abandon).
One of the deputies rapes the daughter of a local bigwig and points the finger at the bikers.
Lots of dramatic moments, but the battle scenes are bloody as hell and since it was directed by Cirio H. Santiago, there has to be at least a shooting, rape, beating or blood-drenched slow-motion massacre every 10 minutes to keep the audience on their toes.
www.vidjunkie.com /action.htm   (6787 words)

  
 On Your Own In China
The town rose to prominence largely because it marks the southern end of the Grand Canal, the mammoth water-way built largely in the seventh century to supply grain to the north of China.
However, the Chinese meaning of the word 'rape' is rather different from that in the West.
Chinese tourists visit Ningbo on their way to PUTUO ISLAND, the site of one of the largest Buddhist temples in China.
www.earnshaw.com /china/ch31.html   (1529 words)

  
 CIVIL WARS-- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China
Chinese communist guerrillas in Manchuria, having no consistent contact with either Ruijin's Chinese Soviet or Yenan and being always in subordination to Moscow and Comintern direct from 1932 to 1942, had apparently ceased hostility against Japan in observance of the April 1941 Russo-Japanese Neutrality Treaty.
Meanwhile, Chinese communists moved their women and wounded to Korea for asylum, for which Mao Ts-etung, in 1950, adamantly insisted on sending Chinese armies to the Korean War as a show of requital.
The pretext to prolong their stay was exacerbated by Chinese request for a delay so that Russians would not hand over control to the communists.
www.republicanchina.org /civil_wars.html   (11156 words)

  
 AEI - Events
And this is so fundamentally important that we, the United States, the European Union, the Saudis, the Chinese, anybody else who has cash, will finance the deployment, the lift and logistics necessary for that AU force to be put into the field tomorrow.
The women they then ask to go outside the camp may be raped, and so they get up very early in the morning, the women, very, very early in the morning to go out.
These sisters were raped yesterday; beat them, raped them, Janjaweed.
www.aei.org /events/filter.foreign,eventID.861/transcript.asp   (12424 words)

  
 American Studies in Britain: The BAAS Newsletter - Issue 80   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I would like to thank Session Chairs for presenting their reports in timely fashion, and indeed to express the gratitude of American Studies at Glasgow to all the friends and colleagues who helped make the 1999 conference such a success.
I was drafted in at short notice to chair this session and it proved to be a thoroughly stimulating experience, with all three papers provoking a variety of questions from the floor.
When interviewed for the chair, he was required to produce page proofs of his book on the British-American relationship in order to convince the appointing committee that the book was not merely 'forthcoming' but 'imminent'.
www.baas.ac.uk /resources/asib/asibwhole.asp?asib=80   (18162 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State/The West -- Exiled leader of Chinese spiritual movement charged in beating
PASADENA – The exiled leader of an outlawed Chinese spiritual movement has been charged with beating and kidnapping his housekeeper.
Scandura filed a restraining order against Zhang on Friday, alleging Zhang had hit He previously after she discovered he had made sexual advances toward her 20-year-old daughter and had refused to allow her daughter near him.
A woman who answered a phone call from The Associated Press to Zhang's Pasadena home said Zhang would not be available for several days.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20030505-1417-ca-dissidentarrest.html   (567 words)

  
 A Tale of Two Bishops
As he slumps into a ratty old chair, it's hard to believe Communist authorities consider him one of the most dangerous men in China.
But the Chinese side abruptly shut them down with the announcement that a dozen new Patriotic bishops would be consecrated without papal approval on January 6, 2000-the same day Pope John Paul II was scheduled to consecrate twelve new bishops in Rome.
In Taiwan (where Chinese Catholics worship freely), Paul Cardinal Shan compares the situation in China to the English Reformation in the 16th century.
www.crisismagazine.com /february2002/cover.htm   (3736 words)

  
 AFFIRMATIVE PROPOSAL AND SOLVENCY SECTION
Many face ruthless exploitation in restaurants and sweatshops, and those who fail to pay their debts to the smugglers may be kidnapped, tortured or forced into crime or prostitution.
2 billion, the Chinese government compels most couples to have only one child, and this policy sometimes leads to forced abortion and sterilization with political persecution--which means that any Chinese of childbearing age can reasonably claim to have a "well -founded fear of prosecution.
Now 18 and a high school student in Boston, she is one of a growing number of women seeking asylum on the ground that they suffered different forms of political persecution because of their sex.
debate.uvm.edu /handbookfile/immigration/7affsolv.html   (17071 words)

  
 [No title]
Not surprisingly, the visa refusal rate for Chinese nationals is increasing.
Many Chinese are complaining about the increase in the number of refusals, but consular officials point to estimates that 50,000 Chinese overstay their visas each year.
The 23 detained Chinese nationals were recently ordered released from government custody on bail pending determination of their requests for political asylum.
www.visalaw.com /98sep/998newsletter.htm   (18531 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Roman Catholic Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
There are also some in the Anglican church, Anglo-Catholics, that consider Anglicanism to be a branch of Catholicism.
The primary church of a diocese is known as a cathedral from the cathedra or chair of the bishop that is one of the main symbols of his office.
Even when the man was convicted of raping hundreds of boys and girls, a number of dioceses, the Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and his own order publicly blamed each other and accepted no responsibility themselves for the failure to stop Smyth over 47 years.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Catholicism   (3146 words)

  
 Central Eurasian Studies Review - Volume 1 - Number 1 - Winter 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I remember Marianne Kamp, who was drafted as chair and main motivator of the committee, saying that at the end of a year, we'll know whether it is going to fly.
Thanks to her great ability to set reachable goals and to elicit the energy and focus in others needed to meet them, it is flying.
I have agreed to chair the committee and am hopeful that a scholar who is not a librarian will volunteer to become co-chair of the committee.
cess.fas.harvard.edu /cesr/html/CESR_01_1.html   (15198 words)

  
 Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts
Leach approached McBride as she was gardening and asked to use her telephone to call his sister, saying his car had broken down.
Once inside their home, Leach drank coffee with the women before stabbing, beating, raping and finally strangling them to death.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is honorary chair of the commission, which is co-chaired by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye of New York, Chicago attorney Alexander (Manny) Sanchez and Professor Oscar H. Criner of Texas Southern University.
www.tsc.state.tn.us /geninfo/PRESSREL/2004/043pr.htm   (5815 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: News Releases
As the Democratic Republic of Congo prepares for elections, the government’s failure to take prompt and effective action against soldiers and others responsible for killing, raping and torturing civilians in Katanga could encourage further violence and insecurity in the southern province, Human Rights Watch said today.
Chinese authorities should immediately release Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer persecuted for exposing official abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.
Since his arbitrary detention in August 2005, Chen has been subject to physical abuse by police, and local officials have repeatedly interfered with attempts by Chen’s legal team to interview witnesses and gather evidence.
www.hrw.org /doc?t=news&document_limit=100,20   (1143 words)

  
 ic_4_un
Please attend the "CHINESE FOR JUSTICE" march and rally at Chinatown Square, Chicago to protest the inhumane racial atrocities on ethnic Chinese in Indonesia.
Embassy in Manila's financial district to denounce the rapes of
It has been reported and yet to be confirmed that military personnel were involved in the gang rape, and that the crimes were too brutal and systematic to be unorganized.
www.nyct.net /~china/ic_9_links.html   (6456 words)

  
 Fellowship: All Saints' Episcopal Church
Furthermore, he asserts that the Chinese circumnavigated the globe, desalinated water, and perfected the art of cartography.
By boldly tackling such major themes as love, betrayal, grief, and forgiveness, The Mermaid Chair forces readers to question whether moral issues can always be interpreted in fl or white.
It is this ability to so gracefully present multiple sides of a story that reinforces Kidd’s reputation as a well-respected modern literary voice.
www.allsaintspontiac.org /fellowship   (1709 words)

  
 The American Spectator
After financially raping the rich to pay for the walls to keep the rest from leaving, I hope that eventually some would learn that the government can not really buy anything any cheaper than individuals can buy it.
The state of Tennessee continues to stagger under the load of a state operated health care system and even the Democrat governor has hinted that attempts at reform have failed.
It went something like this: "In China one is forbidden to question government policies but one is entirely free to question the validity of the theory of evolution.
www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7387   (3586 words)

  
 CA: Controversial professor to speak at Cal ('Hot Wadd' Churchill and the little eichmanns tour)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
While you sing Kumbaya with the elitists and esteemed products of a perverted higher education system,,, your enemies will be looting your wares and raping yur kinfolk and stealing your livestock, kind of like what Wadd says we did to the Native Americans.
More on Wang, who seems to be big on the "there are no Chinese spies in the American government labs" argument:
"Politics of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Laws," Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, edited by Marlon Hom and Laureen Dong.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1371305/posts   (3055 words)

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