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Li Yin-he re-posted an article about “naked government officials” which refers to (quite often corrupted) officials whose family members have migrated overseas. According to the article, there are 1,080,000 overseas Chinese who are relatives of these “naked officials”.
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CALLING FOR ATTENTION TO THE SOCIAL PROBLEMS THAT ARISES FROM THE CASES OF THE “FAKE TIGER PICTURE” IN SHANXI PROVINCE AND THE “CHESTNUTS EPIDEMIC DISEASE” IN SICHUAN PROVINCE!
The case of Mr. Zhou’s “Fake Tiger Picture” in Shanxi province was considered to be small and harmless as nobody was affected. Though small, he was arrested and severely punished.
In comparison, the case of the loss of over 600,000 chestnut trees (valued at tens of millions of Yuan) in Gulin County, Sichuan province was left unattended by the County’s Forestry Administration. Giving neither explanations nor answers to the farmers who are the victims to the big loss.
From 1994 to 1999, the Forestry Administration in Gulin County, Sichuan province has illegally introduced hundreds of thousands of Chinese chestnut trees, which were not checked formally.
Though the epidemic disease of chestnut trees in Gulin County, Sichuan province broke out in May 2002, the relative Government departments (County Government and the Forestry Administration in Gulin County) was slow to solve the problem. They didn’t take any effective actions to control the disease until January 2004 when they finally started to destroy the infected chestnut trees by burning and burying them.
The overall loss comes to 600,000 chestnut trees. The farmers/victims of 284 families, including Yang Zhengde’s family lost their 287,214 trees on their 3608.7 mu of land.
Under normal circumstances, they should be compensated for their losses from the relevant authorities. However to their disappointment they never did. In hoping for a better solution, they brought the problem to the higher government departments and again to their greater disappointment, they were rejected!
Out of frustrations or rather helpless, the victims brought the County Government and the Forestry Administration in Gulin County to court in June 2004. Taking the government to court was never easy as there were so many obstructions from different people and authorities. Eventually, the case could not be officially filed. The justice of the law was spurned and ruined!
For the sake of the conscience and dignity of our law, we hope to see justice! We need help! Will anyone hear us?