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1,000 children worked as child labors in coal mines in Shanxi

www.chinanews.cn 2007-06-15 09:10:30

Chinanews, Guangzhou, June 15 �C A group of parents went to Shanxi to
search for their children who had been abducted and worked as child
labors in illegal coal pits in Shanxi. In order to get their children
back, parents spent every penny they had. In two months, they saved more
than 40 children and obtained some clues to the abductors. However, when
they reported the information to local governments, local officials
passed the buck to others and did not care about the issue. In the end,
400 desperate fathers wrote a letter on the website seeking the public's
help. The letter evoked a repercussion on the Internet. It is estimated
that at least 1,000 children have been abducted to Shanxi to work as
child labors, the New Express reported.
The fathers tried their best and finally managed to save 40 children from
Henan Province.
��We know that there are still many children who come from other
provinces such as Hubei and Sichuan and now work as child labors in
Shanxi Province. Due to our limited efforts, we only saved 40 children
and that��s what we could do. However, we still worry about the rest of
the children and we feel sad that we couldn��t help these children,�� the
fathers said.
Since the illegal coal mines are all located in remote mountainous areas
and the news has spread quickly, it has become even more difficult to
rescue the rest of the children.
Right now, local government in Henan shows great concern about the
abduction. Henan police has reported the abduction case to the Ministry
of Public Security, with the hope that the central police will urge local
police department in Shanxi to handle the case and rescue the children.
Fu Zhenzhong, a reporter from Henan TV Station, went to Shanxi three
times to investigate the incident. He witnessed the whole rescuing
process.
��I was shocked by what I saw when I once visited the children working in
an illegal coal mine in Wanrong County, Shanxi. Many children working
there are just teenagers. The youngest one is only 8 years old and the
oldest just 13 years old. These children should have been sitting in
classrooms to study. However, they are doing the heavy physical work that
should have been done by adults. Most of the children were abducted to
Shanxi and some chose to work there to earn money. Whether they were
forced to go there or chose to go there, I felt deeply sad because I
could do nothing about it. As far as I know, there are at least 1,000
children who work in Shanxi as child labors,�� Fu said.

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