An article titled “Cadre 'Punished' for Melamine Powered Milk Incident Promoted to Other Government Posts” showed up on China’s Internet around April 8. Chinese Surfers were surprised to find two cadre, who were “severely punished,” now working at different posts with similar or even higher rank.
The article was originally published in the Southern China Metropolitan. It reported that one of the two cadre is the former Deputy Director-General at the Department of Supervision on Food Production, Mr. Bao Junkai, who was punished with an administrative demerit this past March. However, Bao has been transferred to the position of Party Chief and President of the Anhui Provincial Entry-Exit Inspection & Quarantine Bureau at a half rank higher than his original post according to the regime's cadre ranking system.
Another cadre, the former Director-General of the Hebei Provincial Agriculture Bureau, was also transferred and is now the Deputy Party chief in Xintai City, Hebei Province in November 2008. The Hebei Provincial Party Discipline Committee and Provincial Supervision Bureau jointly announced Liu's punishment of an administrative demerit this March. However, it seems this is just a cover-up, because Liu was also elected Mayor of Xintai City in January. In an apparent misstep, the regime's mouthpiece, Xinhua News Agency also reported this.
Some surfers commented that the incident is nothing strange, because they have seen this all too often. However, those who cannot bear such news are particularly the victims of the melamine incident.
The parent of a child victim told Radio Free Asia in a Chinese interview dated April 9 that such incidents cause him to loose hope in the communist regime's accountability system. This allowed him to see that the so-called punishment is merely a way to appease the public. In reality, not even Chinese criminals dare to touch high ranking cadre, this is an unwritten law.
This parent also stated that the regime lied about the melamine victim compensation program. He thinks that orders from the regime’s top levels caused local regimes to pressure parents into accepting unfair compensation agreements from the government and that those who would not accept the compensation agreements were not paid.
Within China, the official media claim that all victims were compensated.
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