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| China suffers new knife attack | |
| 2010-05-10 | |
| China has suffered another multiple stabbing when a man went on the rampage killing eight people including his wife and daughter. In the latest of a series of attacks that have raised concerns over the stability of Chinese society, Zhou Yezhong killed his wife and child, four neighbours and a migrant worker during the attack on Saturday evening before being arrested by police two hours later. No motive has yet been given for the killings in the southeastern province of Jiangxi which come after five stabbing attacks in as many weeks against schoolchildren that have deeply unnerved parents in China. The knife attacks have put China's government under pressure to increase security at schools and have pointed up the tensions and divisions in China caused by the ending of the social security net, official corruption and rising wealth inequalities. A week ago China suffered three school attacks on consecutive days. On April 30 a farmer armed with a hammer injured five children and a teacher at a primary school in the eastern province of Shandong before setting himself on fire. The previous day, an unemployed man slashed 29 children and three adults at a kindergarten in the eastern city of Taixing. That attack came a day after a 33-year-old teacher placed on sick leave for mental problems injured 15 students and a teacher in a knife attack at a primary school in southern China's Guangdong province. On the same day, authorities in Fujian province in the southeast announced they had executed a former doctor for stabbing to death eight children and injuring five others in a fit of rage on March 23 after he broke up with his girlfriend.
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| Posted by:lotp |
| #5 People go postal no matter what the society/culture. Copycat killings also occur even when the initial crime is heinous. How many people in China? What is the percentage we're talking about here? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-05-10 15:00 |
| #4 Things in China are different. For example, a man was totally screwed by the government. In revenge, he went into a police station and murdered six officers with a knife. He was hailed as a hero before he was executed. In Asia, you're not an individual, you're a part of a collective. Different thinking. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-05-10 14:04 |
| #3 There is NO, I repeat, NO justification for what these sick, nasty, and downright evil bastards are doing. I mean, stabbing kids? Because you're poor? Get the f*** outta here! This is one of the worst things I've ever heard outside of murder/cannabalism. |
| Posted by: Ay Chihuahua 2010-05-10 11:39 |
| #2 It doesn't help that a lot of middle/upper class/educated people look on the common folk (laobaixing) with contempt...gromky Really doesn't help here in the States much either. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-10 07:28 |
| #1 These are people who have been totally screwed over by society, and are looking to get revenge by disgusting society in the most horrid way possible. It doesn't help that a lot of middle/upper class/educated people look on the common folk (laobaixing) with contempt - they're peasants, and French nobility looked at the peasants the same way. They are there to work, to be taxed at ruinous rates, and to shut up. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-05-10 05:48 |