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China busts child trafficking ring

Published: 24 Dec 2012 at 21.10
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Chinese police have rescued 89 children and arrested 355 suspects after busting a series of child trafficking rings, officials said Monday.

Officers from nine regions, including Fujian, Yunnan, Sichuan, Anhui and Guangdong, took part in a joint drive beginning December 18 against the networks, said Chen Shiqu, director of the anti-trafficking office in the public security ministry.

The children are being cared for in local nursing homes and police are searching for their parents, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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abbub
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Discussion 3 : 25 Dec 2012 at 09.273
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There must be a lot of infertile couples with a country that has a one-child per family limit. Or would these children then have been sold on abroad for other purposes, or through shady adoption centers?

- "Since April 2009, when a ministry crackdown began, police have broken up 11,000 child trafficking rings and rescued 54,000 children, according to Chen."

Well then apparently they have not tackled the root of the problem.
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After reading the gory details I feel sick.
The penalty in China for what we would consider as relatively petty crimes is a bullet in the back of the head, which I consider barbaric. It will be interesting if we see the outcome of this.
Even although it it propaganda, it is good to see they are showing good heart in areas such as this rescue.
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Discussion 1 : 24 Dec 2012 at 23.271
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How many kids has Thailand saved? Zero!
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