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Posted on 08/08/2005 1:03:36 PM PDT by datura
Suicide Bombing - Fuzhou
One suicide bombing exploded on a bus in Fuzhou City, Fujian Provice, at around 2:30pm, August 8. According to official news, the explosion was caused by a 42-year old farmer who had cancer. But it is hard for police to reach such a conclusion so quickly. The news said there was one killed and dozens injured, it did not mention whether the bomber was killed.
What Witness Said
Anonymous witness said there were at least five killed, some said more than 20. Witness saw one body was removed and rescuers tried to find survivors and picked up body parts.
Police confiscated the cameras who have taken pictures.
More photos at source link.
Is this a Muslim region?
My guess is that the farmer was not a Christian.
HAD to be a muslim. They have NO OTHER skills.
Hmmmmm. They're going to need a regular Charlie Chan to figure that out.
Is this in an area where the farmers are being evicted from their (the governments) land?
lol
Hmmmmmm
They must be trying to get the Chinese to pull their troops from Iraq.
/sarcasm
Ping.
LOL!
Good qustion - they are being evicted everywhere from what I've been reading. They're getting restless, that's for certain.
That's a good question, please ping me if you get an answer.
Or that Chinese support for Isreal... *thud*
This is strange.
"Is this in an area where the farmers are being evicted from their (the governments)land?"
Thats what I was thinking.
The Chinese will deal with this very harshly.
Didn't they have a bomb attack or something similar sometime last week?
LOL!
Whatever the farmers with cancer want from China, I guess they figure the model worked in Spain, so they might as well try it.
Fuzhou is in East China, on the Taiwan strait. Most of the Muslim Chinese are in Western China.
There are Muslim Chinese? Ugh
In China, the ability of the people to get firearms is extremely difficult, but the availability of explosives and their components is quite simple.
This is the first suicide bombing I've read about there, however, and yes, if the farmer was from the western part of China he may have been Muslim.
The cancer was brought to the surface, so to speak.
If this kind of thing gets started in China, things are going to get very rough. It is not possible for the Chinese authorities to control their population nor to police everyone at all times. Very dangerous.
I wonder if this was Muslim terrorists.
Pentagon says Chinese military gaining strength but not yet capable of capturing Taiwan
China not capable of Taiwan attack: US report-(see, go back to shopping at Wally W)
AFP: China's military build-up is tipping balance against Taiwan: Pentagon
It will be interesting to see if the 'farmer' was a Muslim or if they ever release that info. If he were truly a farmer, he could have had access to explosive making products.
"It is not possible for the Chinese authorities to control their population nor to police everyone at all times."
The system in China for adressing problems with the government used to work fairly well - they actually would solve the grievances of the public. Today, with the level of corruption running rampant, less than 1% of the petitions for redress of grievance are heard. Often times the government or large business that is the problem will have the "little guy" killed or silenced.
If this "behavior" takes hold over there, the ChiComs are in for a world of $h___.
impossible ... china is a worker's paradise
Warning! Graphic images here:
http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/english/2005/08/200508090003.shtml
http://peacehall.com/forum/pic/932.shtml
Not only female imams, but goverment approved imams ONLY. Islam is tightly controlled, to say the least.
But if bin Laden has been running around in the western provinces spreading his "word"???
Got popcorn?
Possibly. It may have been a protestor, even an anarchist. We'll see, if that fact ever emerges.
China had 1130 bombings last year.
That's a huge number.
Remember how they got their panties in a knot over the two people of theirs we killed at their embassy in Serbia? What's two people to China?
The media never mentions these bombings of course.
China has done some ethnic cleansing and moved the fundy Moslems to the far corner of the empire, so that isn't as much of a threat to stability as it could be. As the money starts increasing and sloshing around, you can bet the criminal elements are feeding deeply.
No - they want life in the Communist Hell to seem like "paradise". Just like they want its' ascendancy to seem like an inevitable fact.
Day to day life is NOT good there in comparison to ours, I don't give a damn what they say.
That's a lot of bombings. Wonder why this one made the headlines.
There is no bigger mafia in China than the CCP, especially when you consider all of the PLA is the enforcement arm.
No wonder the people don't count their "guards" and rise up.
The only other place I've seen this news is in Australia.
Boxun gets most of their info from BBS servers they run. Kinda like a Chinese Free Republic. That's why I like to check their news items - it's almost censor free.
http://hxzen2.people.wm.edu/myinterestinglife.html
It is not the area for many Muslims though there are some in all provinces as they were traders and merchants historically. I think the new class warfare makes more sense.
The "Cultural Revolution" comes home to roost.
Given the land grabs, the extreme pollution of the countryside, and the wage differences, I'm amazed the problems aren't more widely reported.
That's an interesting site - thanks for finding it.
The Public Health system has already collapsed, the farmers of China have to pay eveny health expense by themselvies. Hospital treatment for a cancer patient in China costs NOT less than in USA, but most Chinese farmers' annual income is less than $100 (US Dollar). They did not just start retaliating against the society at today. You could see more violences in China than in Iraq.
The hands that built China
There is no doubt they are creating classes. Their communist ideal is probably totally dead. Concentrating the new money in the industrial areas, the cities, might make sense economically, but the rural areas have no outlet for their sense of loss of fair play. When this happened in America, the vast interior, the Ohio Valley and the Mississippi Valley, was virtually unpopulated, and the vast rich land made it more than easy for settlers by the millions to make it on their own. China doesn't have anything to correspond, so they are looking at a huge structural problem and no solution.
The middle photo you posted - is that a MINER??
Rural life in China would be Hell. On a good day.
BEIJING, Aug 8 : A 42-year-old farmer with terminal lung cancer set off a homemade bomb aboard a bus in southeastern China today in a suicide attack that wounded 31, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Xinhua did not give a motive for the attack in central Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, but it followed criticisms by senior health officials of health care costs that have risen beyond the means of many in rural areas.
The bomb was strong enough to blow out the windows of nearby stores, Xinhua said.
Pictures seen by Reuters showed rescue workers carrying victims on stretchers. One woman had deep cuts on her face, legs and abdomen, with part of her intestines spilling out. An unconscious man had black burns on his bloodied legs.
Xinhua did not identify the farmer.
Police declined to comment, but a local resident reached by telephone told Reuters that a woman who got off shortly before the explosion said she saw a man board the bus carrying a plastic container emitting smoke.
Bombings by social malcontents are common in China, where explosives are relatively easy to obtain, but most go unreported in the tightly-controlled state media.
UNSUCCESSFUL MEDICAL REFORM Vice health minister Zhu Qingsheng said last December that about 50 per cent of farmers could not afford to seek medical treatment when sick.
Last week, Health Minister Gao Qiang accused greedy hospitals of charging exorbitant fees and prescribing unnecessary and expensive medication, while the cabinet has called efforts to reform the medical system ''basically unsuccessful''.
In the late 1970s, 94 per cent of China's villages were covered by cooperative medical schemes. As the collectives were disassembled during the market reforms of the 1980s, coverage rates fell to around seven per cent.
The government has tried a variety of stop-gap insurance experiments, but many have faltered or failed due to fragmented bureaucracy, spotty regulation and funding shortfalls.
Today's medical care sector is composed of a confusing assortment of hospitals run by all levels of government, military and the private sector. In many rural areas, badly understaffed and under-supplied clinics offer the only health care.
Despite receiving fewer patients each year, revenues at Chinese hospitals jumped 70 per cent between 2000 and 2003, according to state media.
The rise in the cost of health care has surpassed salary growth for the past eight years and many rural residents and those who migrate to cities looking for higher-paying jobs still have no medical insurance.
Yeah they're graphic. That one poor lady had her intestines spilled out.
That's why I didn't post them.
I'm sitting here wondering if those camera's teamed up with some wild SUV's?
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