Black People : Chinese court upholds death sentences for coal mine bosses responsible for deadly 200

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A Chinese court Wednesday upheld the death sentences with two year reprieves given to two mine bosses found responsible for a gas explosion that killed 76 people at a central China coal mine last year.

The sentences were the first time mine bosses in China held responsible for a fatal accident were given the death penalty.

The provincial high court in Henan Province rejected the appeals of Li Xinjun, former head of the No. 4 coal mine in the Xinhua District of Pingdingshan City, and Han Erjun, former deputy head of the mine.

The court also rejected appeals filed by three other managers of the mine who were sentenced to 13 years, 15 years and life imprisonment respectively.

The Intermediate Court of Pingdingshan City sentenced the five mine bosses on November 16 for neglecting safety procedures and forcing miners to work underground despite knowing the mine lacked adequate safety measures.

The blast ripped through the No. 4 mine in Pingdingshan City on September 8, 2009, as 93 miners worked underground, killing 76 and injuring 15 others.

The mine was under technological renovation at the time of the blast and did not have a safe production license, the court has found.

China's coal mines are notorious for deadly accidents. More than 2,600 miners were killed in mine accidents in China last year, a number significantly less than in previous years.


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Now it would be something if they could only show the same due dilligence to Black people


Zambia charges 2 Chinese officials with attempted murder

October 19, 2010|By Chibaula D. Silwamba, For CNN

Officials in Zambia have charged two Chinese mine managers with the attempted murder of 11 of their employees at a coal mine in the southern part of the African country last week.

The suspects, Xiao Li Shan and Wu Jiu Hua, are expected to remain in custody as they await trial.

The managers at the Chinese-run Collum coal mine in Sinazongwe district -- some 186 miles (300 kilometers) south of the capital, Lusaka -- allegedly shot and wounded 11 miners during a work dispute, said Sinazongwe District Commissioner Oliver Pelete and Zambia Police Inspector-General Francis Kabonde.



The mine's management has repeatedly locked horns with its employees over the years because of pay and working conditions. In June, about 22 miners were injured underground.

The Zambian government closed the mine, temporarily, because it lacked adequate safety standards last year.

After the shooting, Zambian Labour Deputy Minister Simon Kachimba warned the government would not allow investors to abuse workers, the state-run Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) reported. He did not specifically single out companies from China.

The Asian giant is a significant investor in Zambia , which is rich in coal and copper reserves.

But its companies fall under near constant criticism from labor unions, opposition politicians and ordinary people over what they say are the unsafe working conditions and low wages offered to locals by the Chinese-run firms.

Mines Minister Maxwell Mwale and other government ministers have warned Chinese investors to abide by Zambian laws and to do a better job of protecting their employees.

Opposition leader Michael Sata, who partly campaigned on an anti-China platform during the 2006 elections, has repeatedly condemned what he sees as Chinese investors' mistreatment of local workers.

The worst accident involving a Chinese company in Zambia happened in 2005 when close to 50 people were killed in an explosion at the Beijing General Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy factory in the town of Chambishi.


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China is doing what the Europeans have been doing for hundreds of years and is still doing to Mother Africa…..Deplete it of it’s natural resources and harvest its people as slaves….
Exactly!

The China of today is a monstrosity of imperialist greed that Sun Yat Sen would hate to see,
but acually is the fulfilment of Chaing Kai Chek's dreams.

We of African descent would benefit from looking at what is realy going on and the fact that the few who rule now could care less about the masses or true Communism,
and have created a plutocracy that Mao, and Chiao en Lai would not recognize!
 
Funny thing is the only thing we know about what china is doing in Africa is what whites tell us they are doing. Since when do we trust Cnn?
 

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