Posted on 08/08/2005 1:03:36 PM PDT by datura
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?
Yes, the man standing beside him is the owner of the mine.
FYI
Is Mr. Chaos there yet?
Pinging.
whoa! How bizzare.
Good call - graphic stuff like that is best 'on request' only. Thanks for posting the article.
Indeed. They will even find and execute those who sold explosives to the bomber.
They did of those who bombed a worker's dorm in Shijiazhuang in 1999 (I think).
The bomber was executed the month after his capture. I think, IIRC, some of his suppliers are serving life imprisonment - the ones who weren't executed.
Hey! Charlie Chan was cool...and a family man!
:-)
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.
http://www.ict.org.il/spotlight/det.cfm?id=719
December 15, 2001
One Killed in Bombing of McDonald's in China
One person was killed, and as many as thirty injured Saturday, when a bomb ripped through a crowded McDonald's restaurant in western China. Officials quoted by the local press called the blast "intentional sabotage." The blast in the city of Xi'an left two people in critical condition, hospital officials said, while a number of others had burst eardrums and eye injuries.
The lone fatality was reportedly the bomber, although it was unclear whether the explosion occurred prematurely or was intended as a suicide attack. According to police, the bomber was from the city of Chongqing, capital of Szechuan Province, about 500 kilometers to the south.
Bombings in China are usually motivated by revenge
China has seen a wave of bombings in recent months, though the vast majority have been blamed on disgruntled workers or jilted lovers.
Certainly.
I just read that Fujian province, which Fuzhou is the capital of, has a population of 500 million. That amazes me.
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