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SIDNEY JONES, is regional director of Human Rights Watch in Asia

Fresh Air

Published January 22, 1996 at 10:00 PM MST

SIDNEY JONES, is regional director of Human Rights Watch in Asia. Recently Human Rights Watch published a report on abandoned children in China, and their treatment in China's state-funded orphanages, "Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages." The report finds the death rate in the orphanages "staggering," and in some cases constitutes a sinister "systematic program of child elimination."