[Mb-civic] BBC E-mail: Berlusconi baby gaffe riles China

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His comments on Maoist China were first made at a rally on Sunday. 

"I am accused of having said that the [Chinese] Communists used to eat children," he said. 

"But read The Black Book of Communism and you will discover that in the China of Mao, they did not eat children, but had them boiled to fertilise the fields." 



** Berlusconi baby gaffe riles China **
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi lands himself in hot water with comments the Chinese once 'boiled babies' for fertiliser.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4857226.stm >


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