One in Ten Mafia Groups Headed by a Communist Cadre

One of ten mafia groups is headed by a Chinese Communist Party official

World News | Comments | March 7, 2010

- Epoch Times Staff A recently released report on China's “rule-of-law” unveiled a large jump in crime rates and mass protests in 2009, as well as noting that one of ten mafia groups is headed by a Chinese Communist Party official. The report predicted that lawlessness will only get worse in 2010.

The blue book, the official title of which is the Annual Report on China’s Rule of Law No8 (2010), was jointly published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Institute of Law and Social Science Academic Press on Feb. 25. As China’s highest professional academic institution, CASS also plays an ideological role, propagating the party’s policies and principles under China’s present political system, according to Dr Zhang Boshu a political philosopher and constitutional scholar who once worked for the CASS. More...

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