China detains 168 people in slave labor crackdown

时间：2007-06-18 06:00:23

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BEIJING, June 17 - Chinese police have detained 168 people in in a large-scale operation to rescue slave laborers1 in small brick kilns3 and mines in Shanxi and Henan provinces in central China.

 

Forty-eight people who were allegedly to have been involved in the illegal use of slave labors4 were detained in Shanxi, while the others were detained in Henan, according to local police sources.

 

By Saturday, 351 people, including 22 under the age of 18, were freed after police stormed more than 3,700 small brick kilns and coal mines, many of them are unlicensed, in Shanxi, the country's biggest coal producer.

 

Heng Tinghan, a 42-year-old foreman of a brick kiln2 in Hongtong county in Shanxi was arrested Saturday after the Ministry5 of Public Security issued a wanted list of the second-highest importance for him.

 

Heng was suspected of forcing people to work as slaves in his brick kiln since March 2006, among whom one died and 20 were injured under the extremely cruel working conditions.

 

In central China's agricultural province of Henan, a major source of salve workers, police have detained 120 suspects in the campaign.

 

Police have freed 217 forced workers, including 29 aged6 under 18 and ten mentally-handicapped persons, according to Henan provincial7 public security bureau.

 

Five gangs involved in organizing salve workers for the brick kilns, in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, have been busted8 and their 13 members were arrested.

 

The use of slave workers came under spotlight9 after an open "call-for-help" letter posted on the Internet earlier this month by more than 400 parents in Henan who believed their missing children have been sold to the small brick kilns as slave workers.

 
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1 laborers c8c6422086151d6c0ae2a95777108e3c     
n.体力劳动者，工人( laborer的名词复数 )；（熟练工人的）辅助工
参考例句：
  • Laborers were trained to handle 50-ton compactors and giant cranes. 工人们接受操作五十吨压土机和巨型起重机的训练。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. 雇佣劳动完全是建立在工人的自相竞争之上的。 来自英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言
2 kiln naQzW     
n.（砖、石灰等）窑，炉；v.烧窑
参考例句：
  • That morning we fired our first kiln of charcoal.那天上午，我们烧了我们的第一窑木炭。
  • Bricks are baked in a kiln.砖是在窑里烧成的。
3 kilns a783251ff4c9ad3d87dce8463073429b     
n.窑( kiln的名词复数 )；烧窑工人
参考例句：
  • Bricks and earthware articles are baked in kilns. 砖和陶器都是在窑中烧成的。 来自辞典例句
  • The bricks are baking in the kilns. ？里正在烧砖。 来自辞典例句
4 labors 8e0b4ddc7de5679605be19f4398395e1     
v.努力争取(for)( labor的第三人称单数 )；苦干；详细分析；（指引擎）缓慢而困难地运转
参考例句：
  • He was tiresome in contending for the value of his own labors. 他老为他自己劳动的价值而争强斗胜，令人生厌。 来自辞典例句
  • Farm labors used to hire themselves out for the summer. 农业劳动者夏季常去当雇工。 来自辞典例句
5 ministry kD5x2     
n.(政府的)部；牧师
参考例句：
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
6 aged 6zWzdI     
adj.年老的，陈年的
参考例句：
  • He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
  • He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。
7 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
8 busted busted     
adj. 破产了的，失败了的，被降级的，被逮捕的，被抓到的 动词bust的过去式和过去分词
参考例句：
  • You are so busted! 你被当场逮住了！
  • It was money troubles that busted up their marriage. 是金钱纠纷使他们的婚姻破裂了。
9 spotlight 6hBzmk     
n.公众注意的中心，聚光灯，探照灯，视听，注意，醒目
参考例句：
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。

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