In 2019, a 69-year-old Chinese aunt was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for in Tanzania. Instead of protesting against it, my country clapped and applauded and firmly agreed with Tanzania’s sentence. The aunt's name is Yang Fenglan. She was once a member of China's aid to Africa and made great contributions to the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. Later, she opened a hot pot restaurant in Tanzania and communicated with many upper-level businessmen. frequently. She was a builder of Sino-African friendship, what did she do and sentenced to 15 years in prison? This matter has to start from the beginning.
Yang Fenglan
Excellent quality, take the initiative to come to Africa
In the 1970s, the smooth restoration of my country's legal seat in the United Nations was inseparable from the strong support of African countries. Zhien Tubao is a tradition in our country since ancient times. Although our country was in a critical period of economic development at that time, it was also willing to take the initiative to help these African countries. Yang Fenglan graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University . She is the first batch of graduates who studied Swahili in China. She is optimistic and cheerful. When she learned about the situation, she took the initiative to sign up to participate in the construction of Africa and became a translator who assisted the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway , and went to Tanzania with the team.
The Tanzanian people are not very grateful for our country’s assistance. In a distant foreign country, the honest Tanzanian people have the greatest sincerity and enthusiasm for the Chinese staff who came to help. Yang Fenglan also because of her open character and skilled The language quickly became acquainted with the locals. In this land, Yang Fenglan felt kindness and warmth, and was deeply attracted by the unique customs of Tanzania. In addition, her love also fermented here.
During the construction aid in Tanzania, she and a colleague who was also an aid worker made a lifetime agreement in this simple and beautiful country. On the land of Tanzania,Yang Fenglan left too much sweat and moving tears. In 6 years, she seems to have regarded it as her second hometown.
Opening up investment and smelling business opportunities
With the completion of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, Tanzania has also opened its doors to my country and welcomes Chinese companies to invest in Tanzania. Yang Fenglan, who had already returned to China at that time, keenly noticed business opportunities after hearing the news. Yang Fenglan is proficient in language and has many local friends. After thinking about it, she chose to set foot on the plane to Tanzania again. This time she only has one idea: seize opportunities and create wealth.
Yang Fenglan
Yang Fenglan, who entered the business, seems to be going very smoothly. She opened a hot pot restaurant in Tanzania, although the taste is average, but because it is the staff who once helped, and forged a deep friendship with many local people, Yang Fenglan’s hot pot restaurant has been better than the one in Tanzania since it opened. The rest of the Chinese restaurants are booming, and this has also made Yang Fenglan a fortune.
The wealth of life made Yang Fenglan forget about it for a while. She no longer focused on her hot pot business, but instead focused on human relationships. As a private entrepreneur who has worked out a lot, Yang Fenglan joined the China-Tanzania Chamber of Commerce and continued to make friends with the wealthy businessmen in the Chamber of Commerce, hoping to formally become a member of the upper class.
ivory
The consequence of not being down to earth is that her hot pot restaurant has gradually declined in two years. The taste of Yang Fenglan’s hot pot restaurant is just average, and it is more about maintaining daily income through human relations. However, as Tanzania’s openness to my country deepens, more and more high-quality and inexpensive Chinese restaurants have opened in Tanzania. Yang Fenglan The store no longer has an advantage. Moreover, favors are consumed. In two years, the number of old friends who come to her store for dinner is already rare. No business means no income. This makes Yang Fenglan, who has been accustomed to living a luxurious life, extremely anxious.
The sword goes slant, smuggling ivory
The so-called transition from extravagance to frugality is difficult, Yang Fenglan watched her store wither, and she had the idea of changing careers.Although Tanzania is located in Africa and is extremely sultry, but here, humans and nature have always been in a state of integration and coexistence. Nature contains countless resources and wealth. There is no other business experience in Yang Fenglan who sees a profiteering business— -Smuggling ivory.
Stealing wild elephants
The ivory of African elephants has always been the main source of ivory products. Its finished products can show a sense of luster and were once a favorite ornament of the rich. In Tanzania, the price of ivory is only about 7 US dollars, but once exported, the price will be hundreds of times, reaching a price of about 3000 US dollars. The huge profits made Yang Fenglan red. At this time, she had already forgotten her high ambitions and her determination to actively assist in the construction. The prosperous life for a long time made her regard money as a treasure, and the huge profits of smuggling ivory were enough to make her ignore those laws and regulations.
The methods were cruel and were finally arrested.
In order to obtain these profits, Yang Fenglan built a complete and dirty industrial chain. Together with two companions, she bought shotguns and hired indigenous people who didn't know the situation in the area to let them stealthily shoot wild elephants to obtain raw ivory. As the largest animal on land, elephants will not easily fall under a shotgun. To be foolproof, Yang Fenglan's team will prepare poison arrows. The shotgun they prepared had a great impact. In order to get a complete ivory, they sometimes fired more than a dozen shots at the elephant until it fell to the ground.
Ivory
Everything is alive. Elephants are originally very smart species. They live in groups, and when they travel long distances, they are all marching together. They are naturally aware of the deaths of the same kind, so whenever a companion in the elephant herd dies under the gun of a poacher, they will form a circle to mourn their dead companion. Such a kind animal has not received any pity. The death of the elephant is just the beginning of Yang Fenglan's dirty chain of interests.
In order to obtain raw materials, apart from preparing guns and ammunition for poaching, we must also guard against law enforcement personnel. There is also a special wildlife protection law in Tanzania, which clearly stipulates that shooting elephants is a crime, but in order to obtain huge profits,Yang Fenglan didn't care about this for a long time. In order to avoid being tracked by law enforcement officers, she spent huge sums of money to bribe local officials and even bought her own exclusive customs route.
Yang Fenglan
Our country strictly prohibits all kinds of ivory products from entering the market, and the customs is even more stringent on ivory products. In 1981, my country joined the "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora" and resolutely resisted the import and export of various ivory products. In this regard, our country has taken a strict grasp and watched closely, and has won praises from various environmental protection organizations many times. In addition, there are too many countries around the world, and countless environmentalists have built high walls to protect wild animals.
And while many environmentalists are doing everything possible to protect the elephants, Yang Fenglan is on the second floor of her hot pot restaurant, engaged in a criminal ivory trade. She naturally knows our country’s attitude towards dental products, so in the process of international transactions, she never interacts with Chinese people. The vast majority of people who know her don’t know what she is doing except for hot pot restaurants. Most of the ivory is exported to Japan, where the ivory trade is legal, so even if Interpol had doubts about the trade it was doing, it was helpless for a while. Yang Fenglan relied on this opened up industrial chain and used her extinguished humanity in exchange for a huge amount of wealth for herself. Through smuggling ivory, she has accumulated tens of millions of fortune.
Yang Fenglan
Poor innocent elephants, in order to avoid being hunted by poachers, they can only wear their teeth as much as possible. Some elephants even forcibly break their ivory in order to survive. They also knew that as long as their teeth became shorter and smaller, they might be able to escape the terrifying bullet. Over time, their teeth began to gradually degenerate. Many wild elephants we see now are basically toothless. This is an evolutionary choice and a choice they have to make in order to survive.
Since 2000, Yang Fenglan has smuggled thousands of kilograms of ivory. Relying on these sinful businesses, Yang Fenglan has been called the "Queen of Ivory", but behind her reputation, I don't know how many innocent elephants live. In 2019, Yang Fenglan was arrested. The crimes she committed were made public, and the crimes were numerous and numerous. Countless people regretted the dead elephants for a while,Now, how can this lusty woman still remember that she was once an aspiring and capable translator.
Yang Fenglan
After being sentenced to fifteen years in prison, our country has also spoken out in the ivory trade and strengthened its attitude of maintaining ecological peace and protecting endangered species. Yang Fenglan's imprisonment is an inevitable result and an unavoidable punishment for her. Who could have imagined that this beautiful place that she once regarded as her "second hometown" had become a place where she harbored evil. Once the lofty ambitions have long since disappeared, but now he is in jail, but he deserves it. No matter how heavy the punishment is, the damage she caused to those elephants will never be able to make up for it.
In 2014, my country held a public destruction of ivory in Dongguan, and publicly destroyed the ivory investigated and dealt with by the customs over the years. Those ivory products that looked exquisite but actually represented sins were completely turned into dust as the crusher was turned on. This destruction activity also represents my country's determination to crack down on the illegal ivory trade. China firmly opposes a series of illegal trade and smuggling of wild animals.
Destroy ivory
Conclusion
Wild animals belong to nature and are not a plaything of anyone, let alone a tool for personal gain. Yang Fenglan was sentenced to imprisonment and imposed a huge fine. It can be said to be a great pleasure, but the protection of wild animals is not far away from us. With the improvement of the quality of the people, the awareness of the protection of wild animals is gradually awakening. We must know that behind the ivory products are bloody lives at the expense of crime and filth, but combating ivory smuggling is not only the duty of law enforcement agencies, but also This is the task of everyone. Not buying or selling means not killing. In daily life, we must also pay attention to protecting animals and the environment, and gradually build a friendly situation in which humans and nature live in harmony.
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