Posted on 06/06/2020 11:33:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Lusaka, Zambia (CNN)The trail of blood outside the warehouse door was the only immediate sign that a murder had taken place.
But CCTV footage seized by police, and seen by CNN, revealed a brutal afternoon of carnage.
At midday on Sunday, May 24, three Zambian attackers with iron bars entered the grounds of a Chinese-owned textile warehouse in Lusaka. Police said they were pretending to be potential customers.
But the trio did not want to do business.
Over the next 17 minutes, the CCTV footage shows, they beat two men and one woman to death in the courtyard, before dragging their bodies into the adjoining warehouse.
That's where the footage ends. According to police, the attackers then dismembered their bodies and used flammable materials from the Blue Star clothing business to set their bodies and the building ablaze, burning them so severely that it took Zambian authorities three days to retrieve their charred remains from the rubble.
Before fleeing, the attackers raided the property for valuables. A blood-stained machete was found by police.
The gruesome murder of 52-year-old Cao Guifang, the wife of the textile warehouse owner -- who was in their home province of Jiangsu, in eastern China, when the attack happened -- and her two male employees, Bao Junbin, 58, and Fan Minjie, 33, came at the end of a week when anti-Chinese sentiment in the Zambian capital was nearing boiling point.
In the days leading up to the murder, Lusaka Mayor Miles Sampa had accused Chinese bosses in the capital of "slavery reloaded," used the derogatory term "Chinaman," and, stoking racial divides, reminded the public in a video posted on his Facebook account that "black Zambians did not originate coronavirus. It originated in China."
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For those who don’t know -— There are an estimated 22,000 Chinese nationals living in Zambia, operating 280 companies, mostly spread between Lusaka and the copperbelt in the north. Beijing owns about 44% of Zambia’s debt, which has led to fear among some Zambians that China has too much control over the country.
Zambia is a key partner for China along its coveted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a planned multitrillion-dollar infrastructure program that is intended to link China with more than 100 countries through railroad, shipping and energy projects.
The BRI plans to recreate the Silk Road, an old network of trading routes between the East and the West, by investing large sums of money into other countries to build such infrastructure projects.
Wow have I missed something!!!
What the heck has been happening between Zambia and China that I’ve completely missed!
I have to plead ignorance on this.
And many other things :)
But just this for now.
Africa.. China’s Afghanistan?
When will the Yellow Lives Matter riots begin?
>>Police said they were pretending to be potential customers. But the trio did not want to do business. Over the next 17 minutes, the CCTV footage shows, they beat two men and one woman to death in the courtyard, before dragging their bodies into the adjoining warehouse.
Hate crime?
Workplace related violence?
Robbery gone wrong?
We visited Xian. It’s where the famous terra cotta warriors are kept.
The people who said Western Imperialism is bad have opened the doors for Chinese Communist Imperialism
But, but, our liberals told us that blacks cannot be prejudiced.
I didn’t do it. :-P
Anger at the foreigners bringing in an industry then not using local people for those industry jobs.
It's also racial anger. The Chinese are WELL-KNOWN for being clannish. They are slightly worse than the Indians.
The Chinese are always out for the Chinese.
The symbol for China depicts China as being the center of the world.
That should work out well for them! :)
ONLY when American Indians (who are, racially, Oriental Asians) start with Red Lives Matter riots.
China is on its way to learning, AWA...(Africa Wins Again).
Hmmm, going to watch this on Netflix. Tks for the heads up.
Really weird for CNN to use that word ‘nationals’... Bad Chinese?
What the average African feels about the Chinese varies from country to country, but there is significant anti-Chinese sentiment, which hasn’t been been made any better by Covid. From what I understand Zambia is a country where anti-Chinese sentiment is just about the greatest, and China has become a substantial political issue there.
China is the predominant manufacturer and exporter of most of the high end electronic consumer goods that people need to lead a modern life. It is willing to carry a large amount of debt from these “evolving” economies. Those debts give the Chinese great power over these countries and they are willing to exercise that power. Those countries slowly but surely that their policies must be to the liking of the Chinese. The US is beginning to understand just how much influence the Chinese have on American policy and political matters.
Africans are especially vulnerable but they are also realizing the real price of all those consumer goods. Wars have been started over less. The Chinese will not be reluctant to his their expanded ocean going navy and army to protect their economic intrests.
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