China's continuing 1-child holocaust documented

HBO film shows 40 million girls aborted, 70,000 kids sold annually

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=69207

China's coercive one-child policy has resulted in sex-selection abortions of some 40 million baby girls and leads to about 70,000 children being sold every year, reveals a new undercover documentary to be shown on HBO next Monday.

"China's Stolen Children," narrated by Ben Kingsley, was made by filmmakers posing as tourists and tells of the after-effects of the country's strict population-control limit of one child per couple through the personal stories of several families.

Headed into its 30th year, the one-child policy is characterized as "the world's largest experiment in social engineering." It focuses on the plight of children sold out of fear of government punishment or stolen because of the nation's unnatural shortage of offspring.

Because of the Chinese government's obsession with being accepted as a member of the community of civilized nations, Beijing is portrayed as more interested in covering up the epidemic of child theft than in addressing the problem.

"Legal abortions are commonplace for Chinese families in the one-child era," explain the documentary makers. "Moreover, with ultrasound machines allowing parents to determine gender at 4-5 months, many first-time pregnancies are aborted if the fetus is female. This selective (and illegal) practice is the result of China's traditional preference for sons; here and in other Asian cultures, brides migrate to husbands' families, leaving their own parents to fend for themselves in old age. Because of this, parents covet male babies. In the one-child era, as many as 40 million baby girls have been selectively aborted – creating a gender gap that has left millions of men with little hope of finding wives. And while the black market for male children remains robust, there is a growing demand for girls as well."

This growing "gendercide" problem was first revealed by WND in September 1997. It is also leading to unforeseen social and economic crises for China, as reported by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by WND. An investigation by G2 Bulletin and WND also first revealed the extent of the child kidnapping rings that have flourished as a result of the one-child policy.

Nine years ago, each retiree in China was supported by 10 workers. By 2020 this ratio will have fallen to one to six, and by 2050 to one to three, according to the G2 Bulletin report.

China's population grew at an estimated average rate of 1 percent a year between 1991 and 2002. It was then officially estimated at 1.28 billion, though this may be a significant underestimate. Under-reporting of births has become common since the government's strict one-child family policy was introduced in 1980.

The birth rate fell from 37 per 1,000 people in 1952 to 12.9 per 1,000 in 2002. The death rate fell from 17 per 1,000 in the early years of the People's Republic of China to 6.4 per 1,000 in 2002.

This shortage of workers to support an aging population including more and more retirees will cause an economic crisis in China, say intelligence analysts.

Chinese adults desperate for children have fueled a major criminal industry in child kidnappings. So great is the shortage of young women in China, many men are taking to "purchasing" foreign "brides" – sometimes actually sex slaves. The price for Burmese women – many of whom are desperate because of poverty in that nation – is between $600 and $2,400, depending on youth and beauty.

Some Chinese couples who want a boy simply choose to abandon female infants to die.

"China's Stolen Children" is the 2008 BAFTA Award winner for best current affairs program. It is the directorial debut of Australian-born Jezza Neumann, who also shot and helped edit the film. It was produced by Kate Blewett and Brian Woods, who have co- directed and produced a number of projects over the years, including the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning "The Dying Rooms" for Cinemax, which deals with the neglect of abandoned babies in Chinese orphanages. In 1998, they probed the exploitation of children over four continents in HBO's "Innocents Lost," which won an Emmy and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Television.
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China's gendercide holocaust

Exclusive: Joseph Farah breaks silence over murder, kidnapping of young children

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=69354

One of the first big stories I ever broke at WND was in September of 1997 – the story of a modern-day holocaust taking place in China.

I dubbed it "gendercide."

It came about when the World Health Organization issued a report saying more than 50 million women were estimated to be "missing" in China. These women had not run away. They had not been kidnapped. They did not go just disappear.

Their lives had been snuffed out before they ever really began – victims of institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing's population control program that limits parents to one child.

Many of the girls were killed while still in the womb – the victims of ultrasound technology that revealed the baby's sex. Others, WHO said, were starved to death after birth, the victims of violence or were not treated when they became ill.

The report's statistics showed that in 1994, 117 boys were born for every 100 girls in China. Though baby girls tend to have a higher survival rate than boys, that natural process has been dramatically reversed in China by infanticide, gross neglect, maltreatment and malnutrition of females in a culture that regards boys as more desirable – especially when couples get only one chance at parenthood.

The trend transcends the infancy stage, too, the report shows. Girls are at higher risk than boys of dying before the age of five in China – despite their natural biological advantages.

"In many cases, mothers are more likely to bring their male children to health centers – particularly to private physicians – and they may be treated at an earlier stage of disease than girls," the paper reported.

Later, I believe I was the first reporter in the world to notice another disturbing trend resulting directly from the coercive one-child policy. Back in 2004, I noticed what appeared to be an epidemic of child kidnappings in China.

Of course, it should surprise no one that the shortage of children in China has led to a criminal enterprise in trafficking of those increasingly rare commodities.

It is this manifestation of the draconian population control program that prompted some daring filmmakers to travel incognito to China for the purpose of documenting the horror.

You can watch the result Monday on HBO. It's called "China's Stolen Children."Narrated by Ben Kingsley, it shows the nightmare of "the world's largest experiment in social engineering" through the eyes of several families caught in the middle of it.

It focuses on the plight of children sold out of fear of government punishment or stolen because of the nation's unnatural shortage of offspring.

Because of the Chinese government's obsession with being accepted as a member of the community of civilized nations, Beijing is portrayed as more interested in covering up the epidemic of child theft than in addressing the problem.

"Legal abortions are commonplace for Chinese families in the one-child era," explain the documentary makers. "Moreover, with ultrasound machines allowing parents to determine gender at 4-5 months, many first-time pregnancies are aborted if the fetus is female. This selective (and illegal) practice is the result of China's traditional preference for sons; here and in other Asian cultures, brides migrate to husbands' families, leaving their own parents to fend for themselves in old age. Because of this, parents covet male babies. In the one-child era, as many as 40 million baby girls have been selectively aborted – creating a gender gap that has left millions of men with little hope of finding wives. And while the black market for male children remains robust, there is a growing demand for girls as well."

"China's Stolen Children" is the 2008 BAFTA Award winner for best current affairs program. It is the directorial debut of Australian-born Jezza Neumann, who also shot and helped edit the film. It was produced by Kate Blewett and Brian Woods, who have co-directed and produced a number of projects over the years, including the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning "The Dying Rooms" for Cinemax, which deals with the neglect of abandoned babies in Chinese orphanages. In 1998, they probed the exploitation of children over four continents in HBO's "Innocents Lost," which won an Emmy® and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Television.

I wholeheartedly recommend seeing it.
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"The conversion of the entire population to Islam and the extinction of every form of dissent is the ideal of the Muslim State - This is Islamic Peace"

A moderate Moslem is one who sends others blow themselves up.