Chinese Blogger Killed
On Monday, January 7, 2008, more than 50 of Tianmen city’s Chengguan – Chinese City Management Administration & Implementation of Law – enforcers dragged Wei Wenhua, a local blogger or independent journalist, out of his car and savagely beat him to death when they realized he was filming them as they fought with local residents.
Wei happened on a confrontation in the central Chinese province of Hubei between city inspectors and local residents of Wanba village protesting over the dumping of waste near their homes. A fight had developed when the residents tried to prevent trucks from unloading the rubbish. The villagers were upset because they said the waste was polluting the air and drinking water.
When the Chengguan saw Wei using his cell phone to record the protest, more than 50 municipal inspectors turned on him and beat him severely for many minutes. Wei was pronounced dead on arrival at Tianmen ‘s No.1 People’s Hospital.
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How many more incidents like this will happen as Beijing tries to hide the filth and refuse of its cities from the eye of the Olympic Committee?
Tags: 2008 Olympics | Blogging | China | Crime | Free Press | Human Rights
January 11th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Truth is the enemy of the wicked….
January 11th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Sadly an often ineffectual enemy unless that truth is of concern to people with power…
January 12th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I am sickened.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Sorry about that, but you know my blog is often unpleasant. It’s truly sad, the way China behaves.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Oh, nothing to be sorry about…I appreciate your blog deeply…it’s rather this world that causes me to be sickened. My response is to pray, among other things. It just…the depths of hell that is all around us is horrifying and grievious.
My comment was made in a gut-reaction moment to my pain over this man’s murder.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Olympic preparations aside, this is an indication of the type of regime under which Americans may one day live. As the economy continues to erode, Chinese investment in American industry grows, Americans continue to buy cheap Chinese products in droves and the government makes more and more concessions to China and others, the increasing influence from the East is inevitable. I do believe it was Mao Tse Tung who said that China would eventually conquer the west without having fired a single shot.
January 14th, 2008 at 9:39 am
funny you should say that. . . .