WENZHOU CITY, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE — A thirteen month old baby was crushed to death under a car containing family planning officials in Dongshantou Village near Wenshou City on Monday. Eleven officials were attempting to collect a fine from a couple who had allegedly violated China\u2019s One Child Policy.<\/p>\n
According to a China Daily report, the discussion became heated between the officials and the boy\u2019s parents.\u00a0 The officials persuaded the child\u2019s mother to accompany them back to nearby Ruian to discuss options, and the boy was placed in the care of his father.\u00a0 The family planning officials got into their cars to return to Ruian.\u00a0 The baby was found crushed beneath one of the cars containing Family Planning Officials.<\/p>\n
How the baby ended up under the wheel of the vehicle has been unclear; but in this interview, the baby\u2019s father, Chen Li has stepped forward to tell what happened in an interview published by the local Xian Dai Jin Bao News Agency:<\/p>\n
\u201cAt noon on February 4, as we were having lunch upstairs, we heard people talking downstairs. When we got downstairs, we saw several people rushing into our room, saying that they are leaders of Qing Xiang Community, who are coming to collect the \u201cSocial\u00a0 Compensation Fee.\u201d I brought chairs for them, but they refused to sit down and talk. They also threatened me, saying \u2018Don\u2019t you flee today.\u00a0 Today we are definitely bringing you back.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen we get out of my house, they were still dragging my clothes.\u00a0 I said, \u2018You have torn my clothes.\u2019\u00a0 They said \u2019we will reimburse you for the clothes, but you have to go with us today.\u2019 I said, \u2019I will go, but I have three children.\u00a0 My family wants to go together with me.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen we left the house, my wife was already on the vehicle.\u00a0 There were many neighbors around the vehicle.\u00a0 My two daughters were standing by the car door.\u00a0 My elder daughter was holding her baby brother, and the baby was crying for his mother. Then I went over to the vehicle, carrying the baby, preparing to go into the vehicle. At that moment there were seven or eight government officials inside the vehicle, and my wife was also inside. I wanted to get into the car and handed my son to my wife.\u00a0 The baby was crying a lot, and it was very chaotic.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know who pushed me, causing my baby to drop to the ground. At that time the car started moving, and I wasn\u2019t able to get my baby before the tire crushed him. The baby was killed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n According to a BBC news report, thousands of furious villagers protested the death of this baby outside the local government offices; and Xinhua has reported that the van driver and the Communist Party Secretary have been arrested, though it is unclear whether they have been charged.<\/p>\n Reggie Littlejohn, President of Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, stated, \u201cOur hearts break to learn of the violent death of an innocent child, and we extend our deepest sympathy to his parents. Those responsible for this violent death must be held accountable.\u00a0 Too often, under the glare of international scrutiny, the Chinese Communist Party will arrest officials who have committed a heinous human rights violation.\u00a0 Then as soon as the attention of the world shifts away, these same officials are restored to their former positions or even promoted.\u201d<\/p>\n Littlejohn compared the incident in Dongshantou village with other cases of violent death at the hands of family planning officials, discussed in a report WRWF submitted into the Congressional Record at a hearing on September 22, 2011. Case Seven of this report gives the account of a couple with a second child in Henan Province.\u00a0 Family planning police smashed the father in the head with a bottle.\u00a0 He is now permanently disabled. \u00a0In Case Twelve, in Jiangsu Province, Family Planning Officials beat a farmer to death because his son was suspected of having an extra child. \u00a0 http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=congressional_hearing<\/a><\/p>\n In April of 2011, in Linyi County, Shandong Province, a Family Planning Official murdered a man.\u00a0 They had come to seize his sister for a forced sterilization.\u00a0 Failing to find her, they started to beat their father.\u00a0 When the man defended his father, one of the Family Planning Officials plunged a knife in his heart, and he died.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=147<\/a><\/p>\n Reggie Littlejohn said, \u201cMost often, Family Planning Officials are not prosecuted for their crimes, but act with impunity.\u00a0 The spirit of the Red Guard lives on in the Family Planning Police, who too often function as domestic terrorists.\u00a0 There is a growing consensus both inside and outside China that the One Child Policy is no longer needed to control the population.\u00a0 China\u2019s population problem is not that it has too many people, but that it has too few young people. This \u2018senior tsunami\u2019 that is about to hit China is a slow-motion demographic disaster.\u00a0 The One Child Policy simply makes no demographic sense.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy, then, does the Chinese Communist Party insist on keeping this Policy?\u00a0 In my opinion, the One Child Policy is the glue that is keeping the Chinese Communist Party in place.\u00a0 The purpose of the policy is to instill terror in order to repress people under the iron first of this totalitarian regime.\u00a0 It is social control, masquerading as population control.\u201d<\/p>\n Littlejohn points out that on January 14, 2013 Wang Xia, Chairman of the National Population and Family planning Commission, stated, “We must unwaveringly adhere to the One Child Policy as a national policy to stabilize the low birth rate as the primary task.”\u00a0 Littlejohn concludes, \u201cThe Chinese Communist Party has no intention of ending coercive family planning any time soon.\u00a0 But the voices of the Chinese people are getting stronger and stronger in protest against this violent totalitarianism.\u201d<\/p>\n Related links:<\/p>\n Read the original Chinese Xian Dai Jin Bao News Agency report here. http:\/\/dzb.jinbaonet.com\/html\/2013-02\/06\/content_237733.htm?div=-1<\/a><\/p>\n Read an English translation of the Xian Dai Jin Bao report here: http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=916<\/a><\/p>\n Arrests over China baby\u2019s death in One Child Policy Row Baby Crushed by car containing One-Child Policy team http:\/\/behindthewall.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/02\/05\/16851280-baby-crushed-by-car-containing-china-one-child-policy-team?lite<\/a><\/p>\n China Daily Report 2\/15\/13 (in Mandarin) http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/micro-reading\/dzh\/2013-02-05\/content_8221466.html<\/a><\/p>\n Top Official:\u00a0 \u201cChina must adhere unwaveringly to the One Child Policy\u201d http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=911<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WENZHOU CITY, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE — A thirteen month old baby was crushed to death under a car containing family planning officials in Dongshantou Village near Wenshou City on Monday. 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