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To: Taikun who wrote (63336)	5/4/2005 8:29:43 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The anti-Japan demonstrations in China went too far. Now someone has to pay... Concern over China crackdown on anti-Japan protests abc.net.au Last Updated 03/05/2005, 22:59:19 A rights group says China has detained a number of political dissidents as part of a widening crackdown on anti-Japanese demonstrations. The New York-based organisation, Human Rights in China, says the detentions reflect China's growing unease with anti-Japanese sentiments, but may also be a convenient way of silencing critics of the regime. In a statement, the group says some observers believe the government is using its crackdown on the protests as an opportunity to round up dissidents and make them scapegoats for the unrest. Among the dissidents arrested in recent days is Xu Wanping, a key political activist , who was taken from his home by police on Saturday. Mr Xu was a participant in the 1989 democracy movement, for which he served eight years in prison. During three weekends in April, tens of thousands of demonstrators across several Chinese cities pelted stones, eggs and bottles at the Japanese embassy, shops and restaurants. Protesters opposed Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. The demonstrations were also sparked by Tokyo's recent approval of a school history textbook, which China and other Asian countries say play down Japan's wartime atrocities. Critics say the book omits mention of the forced sexual slavery of women for Japanese soldiers and plays down the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China and Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of Korea.