Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Qian Yunhui

These days, a number of Chinese websites have begun to see some photos documenting the horrific death of Yunhui Qian, an activist of 53 years.
In the photos shown here Qian is on the floor in a dirt road Zhaiqiao in Zhejiang Province. Your body is only partially visible. The right front wheel of a large truck is on the chest. His eyes are closed and mouth slightly open, so that traces of blood. The head is free. A field next to the steering wheel is completely destroyed his shoulder. A little later, an umbrella, crushed by the truck.
The images were put online and on the weekend, thousands of people saw the government began ordering the brutal murder of his campaign against evictions Qian end in accusing the province of Zhejiang. The protest grew so fast that the local police on the impromptu press conference on Monday to clarify the dynamics of the event.
The authorities said the photos show only sfrotunato and tragic accident. But the family of Qian, journalists and many Chinese residents Zhaiqiao insist it was a barbaric execution.
It is unclear who has been taken only known that for the first time on Sunday Tianyi, one of the most popular Chinese forums have emerged. Within 36 hours, the post he was talking about the episode twenty thousand people discussed. Then he took. But have now, news and pictures started to jump hundreds of blogs and personal sites that have been around government censorship.
The New York Times are, Chinese users affected not only by the brutality of the images but also by the fact that the dispute over land, where he is at Qian in China. In 2004, the Government had approved construction of a power plant in Zhaiqiao. The company will take over the work that was approved by the government to rely on all available arable land in the country, about four thousand people had nothing back.
Qian had repeatedly condemned what is happening in his country. protest in the last place that took four months ago, the police have taken a hundred and thirty visitors and arrested at least twice. Shortly thereafter, he went to Beijing as a representative of the Communist Party of the People, a formal complaint to the party file. Zhaiqiao the next election was given as a favorite.
Saturday, the day of his death, he received a call at 8:30 am on your phone. His wife saw him leave the house while talking on the phone. An hour later his body was crushed by a truck. Zhaiqiao Another resident said he saw uniformed men who him in the ground where the street died later. One of them was at one point a gesture with his hand, and the truck had passed the body of Qian.
The first were arrived at the scene of the action immediately suspicious and does not allow the police removed the body. According to the Southern Daily, a newspaper in the province of Guangdong, the family of Qian and the testimony of the "incident" would be arrested. The authorities told the newspaper that the only witness was a drug addict. Today, some newspapers that Qian family was liberated, but still no official confirmation.
The news of the death of Qian is still much discussed on blogs and forums in China. People talk about the pictures and ask questions, so terrible, because the front of the truck had no effect on the action? While Qian was hit in the face because his body was found perendicolare wheel of the truck? Qian, who telephoned this morning?

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