Posted on 06/27/2006 9:56:42 AM PDT by dead
BEIJING - China has executed at least 27 people for drug trafficking and sentenced up to 12 others to death for the same offence to mark international anti-drug day on June 26, state press reported.
In southern Kunming city on Monday, 10 convicted drug traffickers were paraded in front of the public before being sent to execution grounds where their death sentences were carried out, the Yunnan Daily reported.
"As Kunming is very close to the golden triangle, our city has become the battleground in our nation's war against drugs," the paper quoted Vice Mayor Tian Yunxiang as saying at the rally.
"The people of our city should actively participate in the war against drugs and help the police catch suspected drug traffickers."
The golden triangle is one of the world's most productive poppy growing regions bordering Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, all countries that neighbour China's Yunnan province.
Also on Monday, four other drug traffickers were put to death in Yunnan's Xishuangbanna near the border with Laos, while three were executed in Chongqing municipality north of Yunnan, local press reports said.
Five drug traffickers were also executed in Hangzhou city, capital of eastern China's Zhejiang province, Shanghai's Oriental Morning Post reported.
On Monday, Xinhua news agency reported four traffickers were executed in eastern Jiangsu province, while one drug trafficker was executed in southern Guangdong province on June 23.
Meanwhile courts throughout China sentenced at least 12 people to death at trials that were also held on Monday, with three of the convicted given two year reprieves on their execution, local press reports said.
The United Nation's has named June 26 as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in an effort to bring more awareness to the dangers of illegal drugs.
Last week Beijing announced illicit drug use was on the rise in China, with international cartels flooding the nation with heroin as well as new synthetic drugs.
In 2005 police investigated 1,500 drug trafficking gangs, destroyed 34 drug laboratories and seized 6.9 tons of heroin, 5.5 tons of methamphetamine, 2.3 tons of opium and 2.34 million tablets of ecstasy, the government said.
China executes more convicted criminals every year than the rest of the world combined, with Chinese legal scholars estimating that at least 10,000 people are put to death annually. The actual number remains a state secret.
Sapa-AFP
Very few repeat offenders.....
Hello Amnesty International? Hello?
ping
Remind me not to try to sneak Viagra into China.
on this one thing I agree with their justice system...
And people think that the Rockefeller drug laws in New York are bad?
If only America could be that dedicated in the WOsD. Brings a tear to my eye, and I'm sure the drug warriors are yearning in their loins.
A ready supply of human organ donors.
The first time they lined Johnny Whitebread up against the wall, the executions would stop.
Anyone heard from Billy Hayes, lately?
China executes 10,000 a year? Wow! I wonder how many are political prisoners?
Remember several years ago when there was some incident, and the chinese delegate said that they were also a country of law and order. However, they believed that with more order they needed less laws.
That would be "erection fraud".
This can't be. China is a member of the U.N. human rights commision.
"The United Nation's has named June 26 as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in an effort to bring more awareness to the dangers of illegal drugs."
So, is the UN sanctioning these executions? Sounds like it to me.
a bullet to the back of the head, then bill the family of the perp for the bullet.
Simple.
If absolute certainty of execution will not stop drug abuse, why would you agree with them?..........
They have a different idea of what it is to have a holiday.
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