Chinese Lives

On June 28th, nearly 10 thousand Weng’an locals fought with police in a demonstration for justice relating to a 16-year-old girl’s death, which unfortunately lost control and finally set the local police bureau on fire.

The dead girl’s name was Li. She was with her classmate Wang, who was a girl, and two other teenage boy who possibly were Wang’s friends. Let the time go back; at 6pm June 21, Wang came to Li’s rent place and asked her out, and nearly quarter past 11 pm, Wang called Li’s brother to tell him Li would stay at her home, and at 21 minutes past 12am of June 22, Wang called Li’s brother again and told him Li drown herself out of despair and homesick. 36 minuts past 12 am of June 22, Li’s brother arrived at the spot with police whom he random met on the road and found two teenage boys there with Wang.

Li’s family thought Wang and the two boys were the suspects. But local police provided a postmortem report that stated the death reason as drown, and avoid proving whether Li was sexually harmed, which led to her death.

Now this point, how locals rallied to torch the government building. First, they heard one of three suspects was released because he was son of local county chief or county communist party chief . Second, they heard Li’s uncle was beat dead when he was taken to police station. Third, they heard the uncle’s wife became insane out of police’s beating and threatening.

What’s the ending/ Li was buried, and a third and final postmortem report will out on 8th July. Local government Communist Party Chief and the county Chief were both removed from their post.

Some truth. Li ’s uncle was not dead, and Li’s aunt was not insane, but it was true Li’s uncle was beat by unknown men outside police station. 3 suspects’ parents were ordinary local farmers.

Some assume that: Li refused two boys to copy her answer during the secondary school graduation exam, and two boys wanted to teach her a lesson. They raped Li, and pushed her down in the river. In a similar case many years ago, a girl was raped and killed by three men, who escaped law’s punishment because some unknown reason. Some people compared two cases to think that someone inside government wanted to cover up for the criminal.

Weng’an was not a heavenly peace place, but a place full of crime, thanks to local gangsters. There were a lot of gangs, and they have been living threats on daily basis to local citizens. Local police certainly failed to protect people, and there were deep hatred and disappointment towards invalid government officials, especially police station, so it was ruined by fire.

What’s the truth? Shall we wait until the report is out? But to those who destory police station, did they do anything wrong, and should they answer for their doings?