Items like this just amaze me. This is from an article in CNN.
A Chinese blogger was beaten to death by government authorities last week for the crime of attempting to record a protest on his mobile phone.
The blogger, Wei Wenhua, happened on a confrontation in the central Chinese province of Hubei between city inspectors and villagers protesting over the dumping of waste near their homes. When Wei took out his cell phone to record the protest, more than 50 municipal inspectors turned on him, attacking him for five minutes and eventually killing him.
According to CNN, the killing has sparked outrage in China, "with thousands expressing outrage in Chinese Internet chat rooms, often the only outlet for public criticism of the government."
It's the combination of a lack of freedom of speech (which I would come to expect from China) AND the inability for citizens to work to have a clean environment (even just outside their homes) which seems like a recipe for environmental disaster.
How horrible does the environment in China need to be before the government changes, and how many people will they kill to keep the status quo?
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I had no idea! This is insane.
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