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Tape proves cover-up: legislators
By Shelley Shan / Staff Reporter
The legislature?s Health, Environment and Social Committee passed a resolution yesterday to submit to the Taipei Prosecutors? Office a recording that appears to show that Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine Director-General Hsu Tien-lai (許天來) intended to cover up an outbreak of avian flu in a meeting last month.
The recorded conversation was obtained by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators Chao Tien-lin (趙天麟) and Liu Chien-kuo (劉建國), who played it at the committee meeting yesterday.
The conversation shows that a representative of the Animal Health Research Institute had requested that the bureau report the avian flu as one caused by ?highly pathogenic avian influenza? to the World Organisation for Animal Health at a meeting on Feb. 1.
?OK, let me make this clear, the instruction I received was that there was no rush to reach a conclusion today,? a voice attributed to Hsu says. ?Why? Because the situation was not urgent at the site [chicken farm].?
The legislators then played another conversation in which Hsu apparently said the meeting should not reach any conclusions yet.
?The boss said that everyone should take a break and think about it,? the voice says. ?We can exchange opinions today and reschedule another day for a meeting, preferably after the boss has stepped down.?
When the person transcribing the conclusions of the meeting asked if he should write ?the conclusions should be reached after the boss has stepped down,? the voice attributed to Hsu told the person to write that the experts had fervently engaged in the discussions instead.
Chao and Liu said the recordings proved Hsu was trying to conceal the outbreak of avian flu and that the boss he was referring to was then-Council of Agriculture minister Chen Wu-hsiung (陳武雄).
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Tape proves cover-up: legislators
By Shelley Shan / Staff Reporter
The legislature?s Health, Environment and Social Committee passed a resolution yesterday to submit to the Taipei Prosecutors? Office a recording that appears to show that Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine Director-General Hsu Tien-lai (許天來) intended to cover up an outbreak of avian flu in a meeting last month.
The recorded conversation was obtained by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators Chao Tien-lin (趙天麟) and Liu Chien-kuo (劉建國), who played it at the committee meeting yesterday.
The conversation shows that a representative of the Animal Health Research Institute had requested that the bureau report the avian flu as one caused by ?highly pathogenic avian influenza? to the World Organisation for Animal Health at a meeting on Feb. 1.
?OK, let me make this clear, the instruction I received was that there was no rush to reach a conclusion today,? a voice attributed to Hsu says. ?Why? Because the situation was not urgent at the site [chicken farm].?
The legislators then played another conversation in which Hsu apparently said the meeting should not reach any conclusions yet.
?The boss said that everyone should take a break and think about it,? the voice says. ?We can exchange opinions today and reschedule another day for a meeting, preferably after the boss has stepped down.?
When the person transcribing the conclusions of the meeting asked if he should write ?the conclusions should be reached after the boss has stepped down,? the voice attributed to Hsu told the person to write that the experts had fervently engaged in the discussions instead.
Chao and Liu said the recordings proved Hsu was trying to conceal the outbreak of avian flu and that the boss he was referring to was then-Council of Agriculture minister Chen Wu-hsiung (陳武雄).
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