From: trinley@churchward.com (Jack Churchward)
Subject: CACCP Weekly 07/21/97
Focus:
Getting ready for upcoming Florida Splendid China Protest demonstration on 10/12/97 to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the occupation of Eastern Turkestan.
1. Accomplishments
2. Plans
3. Action List
a. Florida Public School District Campaign !
b. Florida Pleasure Passport Campaign
c. Collecting letters/articles
4. Misc.
a. Mongolian activists demonstrated against Chinese rule in Inner Mongolia
b. Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Press Release
c. WUNN, July 15 1997
d. Protest Account
1. Accomplishments
Wrote letters and protest account
Web page modifications:
http://www.afn.org/~afn20372/pol/caccp.html
2. Plans
Assimilate incoming data...
3. Action List
a. Florida Public School District Campaign !
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1730/fpsd.html
We are putting together a package to send to the green targets and focus on them to start our campaign. Please send in your comments and suggestions.
b. Florida Pleasure Passport Campaign
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1730/fpp1.html
The business arrangement between AAA, Splendid China, Bok Tower, Cypress Gardens, and Fantasy of Flight is known as 'Florida Pleasure Passport'.
We have suggested letters to these establishments to ask them to stop supporting FSC. Your letters are still coming in as well as the responses from the particulars named above (minus FSC).
Addresses for mailing letters
Bok Tower Gardens
1151 Tower Boulevard
Lake Wales, Florida 33853
Cypress Gardens
PO Box 1
Cypress Gardens, Florida
Fantasy of Flight
PO Box 1200
Polk City, Florida 33868-9417
American Automobile Association
Florida/Louisiana/Missippi AAA
1000 AAA Drive,
Heathrow, Florida, 32746-5080
Phone: 407-444-4000
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c. Collecting letters/articles
Please send copies of your letters to the editors, school board members, etc., so that they can be included in our web-pages. Let your voice be heard. Thanks to those who have mailed your letters in.
Any articles mentioning Splendid China are welcome also, we prefer to re-print in it's entirety so we can't be blamed for an 'out-of-context' quotations.
4. Misc.
a. Mongolian activists demonstrated against Chinese rule in Inner Mongolia ULAN BATOR, Mongolia (Reuter) - Mongolian activists Saturday demonstrated against Chinese rule in Inner Mongolia, saying Beijing should free political prisoners and allow independence and democracy in the neighbouring region.
A small group of demonstrators protested near the Chinese embassy in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator to mark the 50th anniversary Sunday of the creation of China's Inner Mongolian autonomous region.
``We want the Chinese Communist Party to stop ruling Inner Mongolia and our final goal is an independent country,'' said activist M. Altanbat, who was born in Inner Mongolia.
Altanbat, who said he was a member of a new Inner Mongolian People's Party formed in New York in March, called on Beijing to stop the cultural assimilation of Inner Mongolia, where ethnic Mongolians had become an ethnic minority in their own land.
Activists carrying banners with slogans such as ``Give independence and freedom to Inner Mongolia'' also accused China of dumping nuclear waste and of allowing heavy industrial pollution in the huge region, which lies south of Mongolia.
A group of six protesters marched to the Chinese Embassy shouting pro-independence and anti-communist slogans, prompting angry embassy staff to rush into the street.
``These people have no right to represent the people of Inner Mongolia,'' said one Chinese official. ``Inner Mongolia is an inseparable part of China.''
China held no political prisoners and the detainees indentified by the protesters had all been convicted of civil crimes, he said, adding that the embassy would complain to the Mongolian authorities about the demonstration.
09:20 07-19-97
b. Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy Press Release
Contact person:
Lobsang Tsering 17th July 1997
Ph: 01892 23363
Birth Control Policy in Tibet
308 Tibetan women sterilised and 1 dies after forced abortion
Between September and October of 1996, 308 women in the sub-district of Takar in Chushur district under Lhasa city were sterilised over a period of 22 days. Nyima Dolma, aged 27 from Takar, died after one such forced sterilisation. Although Nyima was in good health and free of any sickness before sterilisation, Chinese officials announced that the cause of the death was ill health. In another case, Yangzom Dolkar, a 27 year-old woman from Takar, was similarly in good health before she was forcibly sterilised. She subsequently fell seriously ill and, faced with extensive health expenses, is now reported to be struggling for her and her family's livelihood. All of the expenses related to Chinese imposed sterilisations in Tibet must be covered by the individual.
This information has been provided by a recent arrival from Takar (name withheld) who says that the Takar health department has been conducting sterilisations and abortions and dispensing contraceptive pills to control the Tibetan birth rate in the region. Birth control policy has been launched in the Takar, Jinup and Nyethang sub-districts of Chushur.
Officials and doctors from Chushur District, the Mother Child Health Care Office in Lhasa City, and the Lhasa City Women's Hospital arrived at the Takar sub-district in September 1996 and instructed Takar government officials to take strict measures against women with three children who must be forced to undergo sterilisation.
In a similar report, Lhundrup Gaden, a Sera monk who recently escaped to India, reported on the stringent birth control policies in place in Nyangral township under Lhasa City. Lhundrup visited the area in June 1996 and reported that the birth control program had been launched in the town's 2nd unit, comprising 60 peasant families and totalling about 600 people, in 1994.
Of the total population of the 2nd unit, the percentage of child birth allowed by the authorities in one year was fixed at 4.5% and it was mandatory for couples who wished to have a child to test their luck in a lottery system. If the couple was unlucky and their names were not drawn, then the mother, even if already five or six months pregnant, had to undergo an abortion.
If a couple produces a child without undergoing the lottery system, they are fined up to 500 yuan (equivalent to more than US $60 and one month's good salary in Tibet). When this "unofficial" child grows up, he or she is denied a registration card and other welfare facilities and will find it near impossible to receive any sort of educational opportunities.
If a couple is successful in one lottery, they are banned from the lot system for the three subsequent years. If a couple is successful in two lottery draws, they are forbidden from participating in the lottery for the rest of their lives. On the other side, if a couple does not produce a child for a long period of time, then that couple is highly commended by the Chinese authorities and even awarded prizes.
The use of economic sanctions and rewards to enforce the birth control policy regulations are outlined in Chapter Four: "Rewards and Good treatment" and Chapter Five: "Limitations and Punishments" of the TAR 1992 regulations. Tibetan women have not only been deprived of control over their own bodies and the size of their families but must also suffer severe economic penalties for "illegal" births.
In an attempt to conceal the ongoing birth control policy in the "Tibetan Autonomous Region", Chinese health authorities forbid the official use of words relating to birth control. An official notice issued by the National Family Planning Commission and the Health Department, dated 13 September 1995, was sent to all levels of government offices. The notice banned the use of words such as "drug induced abortion", "surgical abortion" and "sterilisation", and required that they be substituted with the terms "out-patient operation clinics", "family planning centres" and "operation hospitals" respectively.
The notice also ordered all health offices in all regions to be united in this campaign and to inform the general public to use these new terms on television, in newspapers, broadcasts or periodicals.
Since China's take-over of Tibet, the Chinese authorities have taken various steps to effect the sinocisation of the Tibetan people. Birth control policy is carried out in all parts of Tibet through propaganda, coercion and strict regulatory measures. The systematic and organised manner in which China is implementing its birth control policy in Tibet corresponds to the Chinese population transfer policy being conducted. It is estimated that some 7.5 Chinese settlers have been moved into Tibet, already outnumbering the 6 million Tibetans. By denying Tibetan women their reproductive rights, China further marginalises ethnic Tibetans in Tibet.
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy is gravely concerned at reports of China's coercive birth control policy against Tibetan women in Tibet and believes that this constitutes an immediate and critical threat to the survival of Tibetans as a distinct people. TCHRD considers China's action to be a direct violation of article 16 of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, to which China is a State Party, which safeguards the right of all women "to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children".
THE OFFICE OF TIBET, TIBET HOUSE, 1 CULWORTH STREET LONDON NW8 7AF, UNITED KINGDOM
The Office of Tibet is the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Tel: 0044-171-722 5378 Fax: 0044-171-722 0362
E-mail: tibetlondon@gn.apc.org
Internet: http://www.tibet.com
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c. WUNN, July 15 1997
(1) JULY BLOODY INCIDENT IN ILI REGION
Eastern Turkistan Information Center, 7/13/97
(2) UYGHUR LEADERS MET WITH THE US STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS
Eastern Turkistan Information Center, 7/15/97
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(1) JULY BLOODY INCIDENT IN ILI REGION
Eastern Turkistan Information Center, 7/13/97
[ETIC, 7/131997] A confident source in Beijing reported that, at the beginning of this month, heavy armed clashes erupted between the Uyghur youth and the Chinese military resulted in many Uyghurs killed. The incident took place in the place of Eastern Turkistan's Ili region called Aktope located approximately between Ghulje City and the Ghulje county's border. Immediately after the incident, the Chinese military reenforced guarding of military ammunition depots, and conducted massive arrests detaining about 4 thousand people. The region was sealed and a strict curfew imposed preventing from any information leakage about the clashes.
It was the most serious incident after bloody events in Ghulje on February of this year, when the Chinese military brutally suppressed Uyghur demonstrators demanding freedom.
The source also informed that individuals of Uyghur nationality are being arbitrarily detained by the Chinese police all over China beginning this month. The arrests are usually made under a pretext of eliminating drug dealers. [Burkut]
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(2) UYGHUR LEADERS MET WITH THE US STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS
Eastern Turkistan Information Center, 7/15/97
[ETIC, 7/15/97] Leaders of two Uyghur organizations in Kazakstan visited the US last week. Yusupbek Muhlisi, the Chaiman of the United Eastern Turkistan National Front, and Kahriman Khojamberdi, the president of the Uyghur association in Kazakstan, met and had prolonged conversations with the US state department officials. The Uyghur leaders delivered to the US government plight of the people of Eastern Turkistan for freedom and ending of the Chinese colonialism in this Central Asian nation. They also discussed possibilities of establishing the Uyghur language broadcast from the American Free Asia radio station. Mr. Khojamberdi described the talks with the American officials as very positive and fruitful for both sides, and said that they had successfully accomplished their mission.
Both leaders are members of the Uyghur political council which represents the union of three main Uyghur organizations in Kazakstan. The leader of the Uyghurstan Liberation Organization, Mr. Hashir Wahidi, could not join the two because of his current health condition. [Rakhim Aitbayev, Denver]
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This issue of the WUNN electronic newsletter was prepared by Bill Mitchell (turpan@ix.netcom.com) and Abdulrakhim Aitbayev
(rakhim@lochbrandy.mines.edu).
We welcome your comments and suggestions.
For the back issues of WUNN newsletter visit our WUNN web site
http://www.uygur.com/en/wunn/wunn.html
For more information on Eastern Turkistan visit
http://www.ccs.uky.edu/~rakhim/et.html
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EASTERN TURKISTAN INFORMATION CENTER
(Uygurischer Verin)
Director: Abduljelil Karkash
Lindwurmstr 99, 80337 Munich, Germany
http://www.ccs.uky.edu
Fax: 49-89-904-6155
Phone: 49-89-544-0477-2
E-mail: 0899046155-0001@t-online.de
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The World Uyghur Network News electronic newsletter is produced by the | |Eastern Turkistan Information Center (ETIC), and is devoted to the current political, cultural and economic developments in Eastern Turkistan and to the Uyghurs related issues.
Eastern Turkistan is a name used by the majority of the Uyghurs for their Motherland located in what is at present the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
The World Uyghur Network News brings information on situation in Eastern Turkistan from the Uyghur and other sources to the attention of the international community. Credits must be given to all sources cited.
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d. Protest Account
Arriving a little late, the members of Citizens Against Communist Chinese Propaganda set up their flags, banners, and signs at the main gate of Florida Splendid China, the communist Chinese government owned and operated theme park in Kissimmee, Florida, on Sunday morning, July 13th, 1997. This was the nineteenth protest held in front of Florida Splendid China since it opened in December 1993 and the fourth held this year. In attendance were three members of the International Taklamakan Uighur Human Rights Association, who traveled from Washington DC to attend.
The occasion was to mark the first anniversary of the opening of 'ChinaTown', an effort by the park to distance itself from it's true owners, remove the negative connotations of their original name recognition, and open a portion of the property to the public. According to our sources, both restaurants (Hong Kong and Seven Flavors), have left the property. An unconfirmed report mentioned that the reason was a lack of business which had made their venture unprofitable. This non-activity lack of business certainly was in evidence as the demonstrators only saw ten cars go into the theme park during the two hours they were there, half of which turned around and left within 15 minutes. This is on the same day that two miles away, Walt Disney World hosted literally thousands of guests. From our observations, it appears that 'ChinaTown' is as big a bust as the original 'Splendid China', a big black hole where communist Chinese government money is dumped without regard to profit. It appears that the only thing that
matters is that the propaganda message is continued.
The demonstrators carried signs which read Free Tibet, Free Southern Mongolia, Free Eastern Turkestan and the flags of the occupied nations of Tibet, Southern Mongolia, and Eastern Turkestan were also flown as a show of support for our brothers and sisters under communist Chinese domination.
In the presence of two Osceola Sheriffs Office deputies (the famed EMT cart was no where to be seen), the members of Citizens Against Communist Chinese Propaganda recreated the ceremony which was held last month in New York City, namely, the removal of the stars which represent Tibet, Southern Mongolia, and Eastern Turkestan from the flag of the People's Republic of China. The removal of the fourth star was carried out to indicate that the people of Taiwan do not wish to become part of the Chinese Empire, that even though they have been selected as the next target by the PRC, they do not want/trust the 'one country, two systems' policy. Since the park doesn't fly the flag of their owners and we didn't see any representatives from the park, CACCP kept the flag. This new flag, which contains a single large yellow star on a red field and four small holes will continue to be flown at subsequent demonstrations as an indication that these people no longer wish to be part of the Han Chinese Empire.
One of the most memorable parts of the demonstration was when an older Chinese gentleman stopped his car, read our signs and saw the flags that have been banned in the PRC. With a large smile on his face and in his heart, he gave us the thumbs-up sign and thanked us for our efforts. It is easy to forget the crude gestures and angry words that have been directed at demonstrators in the past by the park's supporters when such a touching show of support is made. We will continue the protest on behalf of this gentleman and the many others who support us in this endeavor.
As a reminder, the next protest is scheduled for the 12th of October 1997, to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the Communist takeover of Eastern Turkestan.
This will be the twentieth protest at the park and we plan on making it very special for all who attend, as well as for the theme park. Please put this on your calendar so you won't miss this exciting event.
Bod Rangzen !
