"The 700,000-member People's Armed Police is a paramilitary force
whose duties include guarding embassies and putting down riots."

"China's public security minister Meng Jianzhu suggested that the
troops, if they take their cue from him, are likely to approach their
task with an 'unbending attitude,' which is the new goon and thug code
term for 'kill 'em!' "

The U.S.'s White House war criminal is said to eagerly await
demonstrations of the Chinks' unbending attitude, which he ordered
against innocent Iraqi civilians.

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"China Set To Protect Olympics"

"Terrorism, Protests Get Equal Priority"

By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, July 25, 2008; A16

BEIJING, July 24 -- China's public  public security minister told
paramilitary police at a pre-Olympic rally that they must "resolutely"
prevent political protests as well as terrorist attacks during next
month's Beijing Games, the official press reported Thursday.

Meng Jianzhu's comments underlined the determination of China's
leaders to smother any attempt to stage political demonstrations when
China is in the international spotlight during the Aug. 8-24 events.
Following a pattern set early on in Olympic preparations, Meng
appeared to accord equal priority to preventing terrorism and
preventing protests.

Security forces must "resolutely prevent severe violence and terrorist
incidents, resolutely prevent severe political incidents that could
affect state security and social stability and resolutely prevent
large-scale mass incidents to make sure the objective of a safe
Olympic Games is reached," he told People's Armed Police troops and
officers gathered Wednesday in the corps' Beijing headquarters.

Chinese authorities have adopted the phrase "large-scale mass
incidents" to mean protests, demonstrations and riots. The
instructions were delivered during a teleconference to a total of
49,000 troops from 873 People's Armed Police units scheduled to be on
duty in Beijing and five other cities hosting Olympic events.

Meng's comments, reported by the People's Armed Police News and other
official publications, were made the same day as Olympic security
officials announced that special demonstration sites would be set
aside in three Beijing parks during the Games. The officials said this
was in line with the practice in previous Olympics. But they also
emphasized that only authorized demonstrations would be allowed, in
effect maintaining the ban on anti-government protest.

Meng's exhortation to the lined-up People's Armed Police was seen as
particularly important because those troops will be the main security
forces on the ground during the Olympics, dealing with athletes,
spectators, tourists and journalists, as well as would-be protesters.
Meng's tone suggested that the troops, if they take their cue from
him, are likely to approach their task with an unbending attitude.

The 700,000-member People's Armed Police is a paramilitary force whose
duties include guarding embassies and putting down riots. It is
commanded jointly by the Defense and Public Security ministries in
close coordination with Communist Party leaders, in particular Zhou
Yongkang, who has overall charge of security on the elite Politburo
Standing Committee.

Chinese analysts and foreign diplomats have said China's leaders seem
resolved to prevent any disruption of the harmonious image they are
eager to project to the world, even when warned that rough tactics
against foreign protesters are likely to go down poorly abroad.

Tibetan independence sympathizers, human rights activists,
practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual exercise movement and
critics of China's Darfur policy have been singled out by Chinese
security officials as the foreigners most likely to try to hold street
demonstrations or unfurl banners in front of TV cameras during the
Games. As a result, visa applications are being screened with
particular care. Some visits have been banned, and authorities
acknowledged Thursday they have also further tightened controls over
business visas, declining to issue invitation documents until
September.

Separatist radicals from the Uighur Muslim population of China's far-
western Xinjiang region have been identified as the most likely to use
violent or terrorist tactics, such as bombings or kidnappings, to draw
attention to their cause.

The equal intensity of official concern over political protests and
terrorist attacks was underlined in an editorial in the People's Armed
Police News warning that the police force faces a "tough challenge."

"Western anti-China forces are attempting to disrupt us, using the
opportunity of the Olympic Games," it said. "International terrorist
forces are eager to make terror attacks targeting the Beijing Games,
and domestic enemies are deploying step by step their disruption
activities against the Olympic Games."

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