寻找环保人士吴立红启动中国的污染战争

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作者： Angus Grigg

上海当天中国总理 李克强 宣布“战争的污染”一个全市范围内的追捕正在北京为该国的顶级环保活动家之一。
来自四级政府的警察在周四结束的中国国会年会上动员起来逮捕吴立红。
他的罪行不是那么倡导环境，而是敢于在共产党所允许的狭窄范围之外这样做。 通过突出他上海附近家乡的污染，这位46岁的老人在一次重要的全国性活动中可能会尴尬地方官员。 所以他们动员了一支小军队来找到他，显示中国将在多大程度上沉默，即使是最小的反对声音。
对吴的治疗是一个很好的提醒，虽然经济改革在中国前进，政治改革甚至不在议程上。 事实上，总统的新行政 习近平 和李总理比他们的前辈更不容忍反对。
吴的故事，他花了30年的运动清理上海附近的太湖，体现了这种不宽容。 吴已经在监狱里呆了三年，他的家反复遭到火烧，被拒绝了护照，并面临定期骚扰。
然而，他的经验与人权活动家相比是轻微的， 曹顺利  ，他们在被拒绝医疗后星期五在警察拘留期间死亡。  Cao于去年9月在北京机场被拘留，准备前往瑞士的人权会议。

环境投诉

尽管有这样的风险，吴仍然准备对本月早些时候在北京举行的全国人民代表大会上的“立委”作出环境投诉，但是偏执的地方官员也有其他想法，他们抓住他的努力似乎是一个从“逃亡者”令人惊讶的是，在一个有2000万人口的城市，当局找到了他，但是他花了几十个人9天的时间，而不是试图逮捕一个被告的谋杀犯，官员正在追逐一个只想提高环保意识的人。
吴在访问北京期间，他告诉“澳大利亚财经评论”，他计划访问最高法院，以推翻逃税指控的信念被推翻。
他还想看到中央纪律检查官员报告地方官员和污染工厂主之间的腐败。
但他的主要任务是游说NPC代表做3月21日国家温室气体排放日。
最后没有代表同意见他，但由于腐败和污染是今年全国人大的主要议题，你会认为吴可能至少已被容忍。 不在中国。
猎人开始于2月26日，当地公安局意识到吴已经离开了他的村庄。 他们知道他在北京，但不知道在哪里，因为他使用朋友的身份证预订了酒店。
在早期的狩猎，武警说，军官驻扎在最高法院和外交部外，等待拦截他。 当这不起作用时，地方官员呼吁一个高度有经验的官员，他的名字跟踪法轮功成员。
他命令男子团队驻扎在整个城市的热门火车站的每个出口 - 这将涉及至少50人的演习。 在这个阶段，甚至他家乡的副主任也被命令北京帮助搜查，同时还有来自镇，县，市负责武警的安全官员。
最后，九天后，他们发现他在鼓楼地铁站附近的一个湿市场买苹果。
一队六人当场就逮捕他。
“这是一个大城市北京。 我不敢相信他们找到了我，“吴通电话说，”但是我做错了什么。
这从来没有解释给吴，谁被拘留一夜之间，然后乘火车护送回他的家乡。
他被告知不要离开家，直到NPC完成。
对吴的缺乏表明了党如何坚持维护社会和谐的外观。 但它仍然不愿意允许即使是最小的出口为人民呐喊。
The Australian Financial Review


Hunt for environmentalist Wu Lihong kicks off China’s pollution war
·        Updated Mar 19 2014 at 7:49 PM


Shanghai On the day Chinese Premier Li Keqiang declared “war on pollution" a citywide manhunt was under way in Beijing for one of the country’s top environmental activists.
Police from four levels of government were mobilised to apprehend Wu Lihong during the annual session of China’s Parliament, which finished on Thursday.
His crime was not so much advocating for the environment, but daring to do so outside the narrow confines allowed by the Communist Party. By highlighting pollution in his home village near Shanghai, the 46-year-old was likely to embarrass local officials during an important national event. And so they mobilised a small army to find him, showing how far China will go to silence even the smallest dissenting voice.
The treatment of Wu is a good reminder that while economic reform is moving ahead in China, political reform is not even on the agenda. Indeed, the new administration of President Xi Jinping and Premier Li are even less tolerant of opposition than their predecessors.
The story of Wu, who has spent 30 years campaigning to clean up the Tai Lake near Shanghai, embodies this intolerance. Wu has spent three years in jail, had his home repeatedly fire-bombed, been denied a passport and faced regular harassment.
Yet, his experience is mild compared to human rights activist, Cao Shunli , who died in police custody on Friday after being denied medical treatment. Cao was detained at Beijing airport last September on her way to a human rights conference in Switzerland.
Environmental complaints
Despite such risks, Wu was still prepared to take his environmental complaints to “legislators" attending the National People’s Congress in Beijing earlier this month. But paranoid local officials had other ideas. Their efforts to catch him appear like a scene from The Fugitive, but rather than trying to apprehend an accused murderer, officials were chasing a man who only wanted to raise environmental awareness. Amazingly, in a city of 20 million people, the authorities found him, but it took dozens of men nine days.
During his visit to Beijing, Wu told The Australian Financial Review he planned to visit the Supreme Court to have his conviction, on trumped up tax evasion charges, overturned.
He also wanted to see officers from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to report corruption between local officials and polluting factory owners.
But his main task was to lobby NPC delegates to make March 21 National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Day.
In the end no delegates agreed to see him, but given corruption and pollution were among the main themes of the NPC this year, you would think Wu might at least have been tolerated. Not in China.
The man-hunt began on February 26, when the local Public Security Bureau realised Wu had left his village. They knew he was in Beijing but didn’t know where, as he’d booked into a hotel using a friend’s ID card.
During the early part of the man-hunt, Wu said officers were stationed outside the Supreme Court and Foreign Ministry, waiting to intercept him. When this didn’t work, local officials called in a highly experienced officer who’d made his name tracking down Falun Gong members.
He ordered teams of men to be stationed at each exit of popular train stations across the city – an exercise which would have involved at least 50 people. By this stage even the deputy director of his home village had been ordered to Beijing to help with the search, along with security officers from town, county and city administration responsible for Wu.
Finally, after nine days, they found him buying apples at a wet market near the Drum Tower subway station.
A group of six officers were on the spot to apprehend him.
“It’s such a big city Beijing. I can’t believe they found me," Wu said by phone. “But what did I do wrong."
This was never explained to Wu, who was detained overnight before being escorted by train back to his home village.
He was told not to leave home until the NPC had finished.
The lack of charges against Wu shows how the Party is fixated on maintaining the façade of social harmony. But it remains unwilling to allow even the smallest outlet for people to air their grievances.
The Australian Financial Review