Report from Spanish Newspaper - "World Health Organization Criticizes China Again for Manipulation of SARS-Infected Population"

Popular Spanish newspaper The World News reported on April 30 2003 that political leaders from China, Japan and several Southeast Asian countries attended an emergency summit on the spread of SARS, held in Bangkok on April 29. The leaders were trying to produce an effective method to harness the spread of SARS within 2 months. However, these efforts seemed to conflict with the intentions of the Chinese leaders. Instead of focusing on how to deal with the virus, they were more interested in the influence this epidemic will have on China’s politics and economy.

The World Health Organization has published a straightforward condemnation of the Communist regime in China. The WHO also firmly indicated that the Chinese authorities continue to cover up the facts, and manipulate the SARS-infected population so that the world is kept from panic.

Experts dispatched by the World Health Organisation to China consider the data released by the Beijing Government hard to believe. According to the data published by China on Saturday, there were 202 additional cases of infection and 9 cases of death. A Spokesman for the World Health Organization strongly questioned this data, commenting that the “data reported by them is always very similar” and that the WHO highly distrusts the source of this information.

More Chinese Officials Dismissed from Office

Recently, another sixteen mid-level officials were secretly removed from office by the Communist Party. They are being held responsible for the SARS cover-up. However, in a political structure as strict as China’s, it is virtually impossible for these mid-level officials to order a cover up of the spreading of the SARS virus without prior approval from the Central Committee and Politburo.

The dissatisfaction of the general public towards the way the Chinese authorities handled the crisis has resulted in several upheavals. Last Sunday, hundreds of citizens from southeast Beijing conflicted with local police and ruined a public building. The cause of the riot was a rumour that a public school is to be converted into a quarantine to accommodate SARS patients.

Translated from Chinese at http://yuanming.net/articles/200305/20173.html