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Olympic Sailing Site Cleared Of Dead Bodies

Olympic Sailing Site Cleared Of Dead Bodies
Satellite images from Google Maps show the waters of Qingdao bespeckled with dead bodies before the recent cleanup effort.

SHANGHAI, China (CAP) - According to Chinese officials, the site that will play host to the Olympic sailing events this summer is "basically" free of dead bodies that had been littering the sea off the city of Qingdao. Officials expect the water to be "completely manoeuvrable" by the start of the competition.

"Now it's totally different from several days ago," Wang Haitao, vice president of the sailing committee for China's games organizing committee, told CAP News by telephone. "It's hard to find more bodies as those that are left have sunk down out of sight."

A new report by Amnesty International claims the hundreds of bodies dumped in the ocean were part of Beijing's clean-up efforts to remove individuals they felt could threaten the image of "stability" and "harmony" they want to portray to the world during this year's Games.

"We applaud China's attempt to clean things up, we really do," said Roseann Rife, Asia-Pacific Deputy Director at Amnesty International. "But how many bays are there along the coast, and they had to pick the one where the sailing takes place?

"I mean honestly, sometimes we just don't understand where their heads are at," added Rife.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao refuted Amnesty's claims that the effort spent to remove bodies from Qingdao took away from more important endeavors such as the continued clean-up of pollution levels in the country. He did say, however, that in the interest of time, the bodies that are left will be pushed down below rudder-level to ensure no boats bump into them while racing.

"We are happy to report that Chinese dissidents will not stand - or float - in the way of this year's Olympic games," American sailor Carrie Howe said on her team's website. "It was tough to see the bodies with that smog and the algae in the water, but thanks to the efforts of thousands of workers, that's no longer an issue."

Despite the herculean clean-up effort, China is still piling up bodies at an alarming rate. And because the factories that would normally incincerate those bodies have been shut down due to high levels of pollution, the question of what to do with the dead detractors remains a concern.

"There is no need for worry," assured Jianchao. "As long as TV cameras stay in Beijing, the world will see China as it really is: a happy place."

- CAP News Staff
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