Saturday, February 19, 2011

The micro-a weapon against the abduction of children in China

A micro blog has become the last three weeks in an effective weapon against the abduction of children in China. What began as a voluntary initiative of a professor has become a movement of tens of thousands of Internet users willing to collaborate so that parents can get their children back. To date, seven children had already been recovered.

Chinese police have launched a new campaign against child abduction. It is the power of social networks on the Internet. It all started early last January when the Professor of Rural Development of the official Academy of Social Sciences, Yu Jianrong, known for its commitment to the disadvantaged, received a letter from a desperate mother who asked for help finding Yang Weixin your child over the Internet.

Hung Yu petition on their microblog. This aroused the attention of many users and one of them offered a clue. With this information the family contacted the police who reached Yang Weixin. Later, Yu received more letters asking the same kind of help. Given the growing demand, to open a specific micro blog on 25 January.

Asking people to make pictures of children begging on the street with the aim of helping parents to find clues that allow them to recover their children. In China, every year more than 60,000 children abducted by criminal networks, which then require them to ask for charity through the streets or are sold to couples who can not bear children.

In China, which applies the one-child policy since 1980, the inability to have children becomes in some cases unbearable pressure for some couples who are aware that when they reach old age will not have anyone to look after them. It's a torture scene and they would not hesitate to adopt an orphan child or, if this is not possible, seek the means to buy it, in some cases by a few thousand euros.

In just two weeks, the product launched by Yu had already two thousand photographs of children begging. But the flood came in the middle of last week, when a father confirmed his son had recovered. Peng exciting images Gaofeng, 30, hugged his son Wenlan, six years, it spread like wildfire across the country.

Wenlan had been kidnapped when he was three years in a Shenzehen street, a city south of the country, just half an hour from Hong Kong. Since that day, her parents tracked unsuccessfully throughout the city and then throughout the region. They came to offer a reward of 100,000 yuan, a huge figure considering that the average wage in China is about 6,000 yuan each, who will help them find their son.

They found no trace. Through the open micro blog by Yu Jianrong, Peng Gaofeng received an email with a picture of a child in northern Jiangsu province, thousands of kilometers from Shenzhen, which proved to be his son. Helped the police locate and retrieve. "This man is my father crying," he said Wenlan police officer asked him if that man was actually his father.

"It's a miracle that would not have been possible without the help of Internet. Was it worth 13 blogs on the Internet open and hang the picture of my son in the network," Peng told China Daily. Since that day, the influx of parents, hoping that maybe recovered will find your child through the network, Yu flooded the product, which already has hundreds of thousands of followers.

It appears that you have already found six other abducted children. The mobilization generated by this product has demonstrated the power of social networking-what worries Beijing officials, who maintain tight control of the red-and pushed the police to announce a new campaign against kidnapping children by gangsters.

And its leaders to claim the bodies responsible for enforcing the law throughout the country to cooperate, to stop the hijackers and recovering children. The director of the office of kidnappings of Public Security Ministry, Chen Shiqu, said that he also uses the product of Yu Jianrong as a source of information and has encouraged parents to support the campaign by the member of the Academy Social Sciences.

Often, China's population is complaining, via Internet, of passivity and indifference of the police in the abduction of children. "Our government sometimes shows much procrastination, but how are you bringing hope actions," wrote a few days ago a contributor to the network. The problem that the police often encounter is that in many cases children are kidnapped as infants or very small and grow to be less recognizable in the photos and do not remember who and how are their real parents.

In this regard, the Ministry of Public Security has improved its efforts to facilitate the reunification of parents and children. It has created for a DNA database, which has allowed 813 families to gather. And last fall, the official news agency Xinhua reported that Chinese police had released more than 10,000 women and 6,000 children of gangsters who were forced to work for them.

For his part, Yu Jianrong has told various media he was confident that its product is successful and for creating a common consciousness in Chinese society and notify the police when they see children under 14 years begging on the street.

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