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Apple Daily: The Story of How A Natural Disaster Turned Into a Manmade Calamity
04/05/2003
(Clearwisdom.net) Apple Daily reported on April 5, 2003, that when SARS
initially broke out in early March in Hong Kong, the Tung Chee-Wah
Administration covered it up, even after five people died from it. It wasn't
until a large number of residents of an apartment building fell ill, as
disclosed by the Medical College of the Chinese University, that Hong Kong
people realized how serious the situation was.
The reason for the cover-up is well summarized by Long Yongtu, former Deputy
Minister of Foreign Economic and Trade of the People's Republic of China: "Hong
Kong is the center of tourism, shipping, transportation, and finance. It needs
to keep people coming to make it prosperous. If newspapers reported SARS every
day on their headlines, who would come to Hong Kong? If 500,000 people fall ill,
it makes sense to panic, but up to now only 300 people have gotten sick.
No wonder you've never heard about any infectious disease in Communist China
and no wonder the Minister of Health Zhang Wenkang and Hong Kong Secretary for
Health, Welfare and Food Yeoh Eng-kiong insisted that "The Mainland has never
passed SARS to Hong Kong." and " The Mainland authorities did not cover up the
epidemic situation" However, according to WHO, SARS broke out in Guangdong
Province back in November last year and has spread inside China, and WHO's
requests to visit Guangdong Province were rejected twice by the authorities.
Communist China's top national secrets include infectious diseases. In
September 2002, Beijing resident Wan Yanhai was arrested for "leaking national
secrets to foreigners" by the National Security Bureau, because he exposed the
fact that tens of thousands of people were infected with AIDS in China. To
Communist China, this is the most effective way to eradicate diseases such as
AIDS and SARS. In any case, the disease will not affect those living in
Zhongnanhai (Translator's note: the Chinese regime's leadership compound) who
are forever separated from the people.
It seems like that as long as they can keep SARS a secret for another two to
three months, it will be eradicated in Hong Kong, just as in China. The logical
way to do it is to implement Article 23 to protect the national secrets. There
are 6 million people in Hong Kong; even if 500,000 people die, there will still
be 5.5 million left.
When the infectious disease broke out in Hong Kong, the only thing that the
Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food was concerned about was that the disease
would "hurt tourism"; Recently, the Foreign Ministry of PRC, reluctantly
disclosed a tiny bit of information about SARS in China, still emphasizing that
"it is safe for foreigners to invest in China". All they see is their
self-interest. A disaster that could have been nipped in the bud has become a
full-fledged epidemic. Posting date: 4/17/2003 |