Kina-nyt
Kina er et STORT land. For et par år siden fangede jeg en lille notits om at en nylig kampagne mod kriminalitet havde ført til 200.000 arrestationer mens der var blevet konfiskeret intet mindre end 100.000 skydevåben og 1.000 tons sprængstof (ca-tal efter hukommelsen).
To små sætninger i en nyhedshistorie på BBC i mandags understreger det igen:
There were more than a thousand reported bombings last year.
Most go unreported by the country's tightly-controlled state media.
UPDATE:
Angantyr har links til en flok kinesiske blogs, der mener det var en muslimsk selvmordsbomber, der var tale om i BBC-historien (eksplosionen fandt sted i en bus, og officielt døde der ud over selvmordsbomberen kun én person). Personligt køber jeg den nu ikke - hvis en muslim havde villet sprænge sig i luften og tage nogle kinesere med sig er Fujian-provinsen ikke ligefrem det mest oplagte sted. Muslimske ekstremister har før foretaget terror-bombninger af busser, men det har været i Sinkiang-provinsen, hvor de lige og lige udgør et flertal, og i Kinas hovedstad Beijing.
Dertil kommer at der er meget let adgang til sprængstoffer (se de 1000 tons konfiskeret foroven), at der stort set intet er, der hedder forsigtig behandling af sprængstoffer, og at Kina for tiden har et ualmindeligt stort antal løse elektroner i form af de såkaldte "Bare Branches", jeg har nævnt før på bloggen
Selv i en tid, hvor Kina prøver at tørre så meget det kan af på muslimske separatister i Xinjiang-provinsen var der feks tvivl om hvad en eksplosion der kostede 11 mennesker livet i en minibus i provinsen i januar skulle tilskrives, og uforsigtig behandling af sprængstoffer var en af kandidaterne:
Sisci noted that blasts caused by the careless handling of explosives and other hazardous materials are common in China, despite laws against possessing or carrying them on public transport. "Explosions in China are fairly common because explosives are carried all over the place and used for a variety of reasons -- from mining to fireworks," he said. "They are quite commonly purchased, everywhere."
Hvis man følger lidt med i medierne vil man også engang i mellem se små notitser om, at nu er endnu en kinesisk skole sprunget i luften, og 20-40 flere kinesiske skolebørn er døde. I Marts 2001 var det tilfældet på en skole i Jiangxi-provinsen, hvor 37 skolebørn og 4 lærere døde fordi skolen, for at få budgettet til at hænge sammen, havde sat børnene til at lave fyrværkeri under uforsvarlige forhold. Og det var endda efter en serie af lignende uheld året forud - 33 dræbt i marts, 36 i Juli og 31 i august 2000.
Andre gange er det imidlertid vanvittige sataner, der er ude på hævn for reelle eller indbildte uretfærdigheder, og så lader det gå ud over uskyldige. Også i marts 2001 sprang en arbejdsløs kineser fire bomber i fire forskellige boligblokke i løbet af en time, og dræbte 108 mennesker.
Nu er problemet så, at man ikke altid kan stole på hvad de kinesiske medier siger. Den oprindelige officielle version af marts 2001-skole-eksplosionen var feks at en mand var gået ind i skolen med to sække sprængstoffer og havde detoneret dem. Og hvad angår serie-bombningen er der nogle der mener at en enkelt man ikke selv kunne få en sådan serie-bombning op at stå.
....hvilket bringer på banen at serie-bombninger ("koordinerede angreb" når medierne taler om al Qaeda og lignende) åbenbart er rimeligt almindelige i Kina. Følgende er også fra 2001:
China has seen a wave of bombings in recent months, though the vast majority have been blamed on disgruntled workers or jilted lovers.
On Friday, a series of blasts occurred in two cities in the southern province of Guangdong. Reuters quoted the Beijing Morning Post as saying that several bombs exploded in Zhangjiang city, in "Xiashan, Chikan, Kaifaqu and other areas of the city." Zhangjiang is about 350 kilometers west of Hong Kong. What the targets were was not mentioned.
On the same morning, three separate bombings occurred in residential districts in Jiangmen, some 220 kilometers northeast of Zhangjiang, the Beijing Youth Daily said. Two of the blasts occurred about 100 meters apart, blowing out windows in eighth-floor and third-floor residential apartments along the city's Shuinan Road, the paper said.
Police said the explosions in Jiangmen were the work of an individual bent on avenging himself on relatives and rival businessmen. At least two people were killed in these explosions, including the bomber, and six injured. It was unclear whether the explosions in Zhangjiang were related to the ones in Jiangmen.
Man skal heller ikke afvise, at de kinesiske muslimer faktisk har noget at hævne. I oktober sidste år var der således en reel pogrom mod Hui (kinesisktalende muslimer) i Henan-provinsen. Hvad der reelt udløste det står stadig hen i det uvisse - historierne er dog enige om at en Hui-mand ramte en Han-pige, men om hun kun blev strejfet eller døde af det står hen i det uvisse. Forskellige beskrivelser af hvad der fulgte - Taiwan Security Research:
An official at a local mosque, who declined to be identified, said the violence in the Henan countryside began Wednesday after a traffic dispute involving Hui truck drivers and Han villagers in Weitan, a corn- and wheat-growing hamlet located about 400 miles southwest of Beijing outside Kaifeng, the ancient Song Dynasty capital of China.
The fighting soon spread to several nearby villages, where witnesses reached by phone described mobs looting, burning down homes and beating people in alternating raids by members of the two ethnic groups. As many as 10,000 anti-riot and military police began pouring into the area beginning Friday, but villagers clashed with them too, swinging iron bars and throwing bricks and stones, witnesses said.
In these times:
Fighting between the two communities raged for hours, Ma says, leaving more than 100 dead, more than 400 injured, and several houses and vehicles burned.
Word of the riot spread quickly in the region, threatening to draw thousands more into the frenzy, thanks to the cell phones and computers proliferating even in rural China.
“Thousands of [Han] people surrounded [Nanren village] with bulldozers and tractors and wanted to smash all the Hui houses,” says Zhujian Jun, 32, a carpenter in Zhongmou, a town about 20 miles south of Nanren.
In Ji Yuan, about 80 miles to the west, “thousands of Hui people were getting into trucks to go join the fight,” says Yuan Peng, a Hui man in Ji Yuan. Rumors also spread about a planeload of Huis flying in from the northern province of Ningxia, an officially designated Hui autonomous region, where about 2 million of China’s 8.2 million Hui live.
Local authorities moved quickly to quell the violence, but it was so ferocious that at least 15 policemen were killed before officials called in special paramilitary troops, sources say.
Seattle Morning Herald:
The rival villagers failed to settle their dispute, which quickly grew to involve thousands of people in Zhongmou county between the cities of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, according to two accounts of the incident.
Local police failed to contain the unrest and authorities deployed the paramilitary People's Armed Police to restore order. Martial law was declared over the weekend, people in the area said, adding that the situation had since been stabilised.
One person briefed on the clashes said that the authorities may have been particularly alarmed after the police stopped a 17-truck convoy carrying Hui men to the area from other counties and provinces as it passed through Qi county, near Zhongmou. Blockades were set up on main roads in the area, and some bus services were halted.
That suggests that word of the violence may have spread through a network of Hui and perhaps other Muslim groups, and that mutual support among them is relatively strong. But details were sketchy and difficult to confirm.
To små sætninger i en nyhedshistorie på BBC i mandags understreger det igen:
There were more than a thousand reported bombings last year.
Most go unreported by the country's tightly-controlled state media.
UPDATE:
Angantyr har links til en flok kinesiske blogs, der mener det var en muslimsk selvmordsbomber, der var tale om i BBC-historien (eksplosionen fandt sted i en bus, og officielt døde der ud over selvmordsbomberen kun én person). Personligt køber jeg den nu ikke - hvis en muslim havde villet sprænge sig i luften og tage nogle kinesere med sig er Fujian-provinsen ikke ligefrem det mest oplagte sted. Muslimske ekstremister har før foretaget terror-bombninger af busser, men det har været i Sinkiang-provinsen, hvor de lige og lige udgør et flertal, og i Kinas hovedstad Beijing.
Dertil kommer at der er meget let adgang til sprængstoffer (se de 1000 tons konfiskeret foroven), at der stort set intet er, der hedder forsigtig behandling af sprængstoffer, og at Kina for tiden har et ualmindeligt stort antal løse elektroner i form af de såkaldte "Bare Branches", jeg har nævnt før på bloggen
Selv i en tid, hvor Kina prøver at tørre så meget det kan af på muslimske separatister i Xinjiang-provinsen var der feks tvivl om hvad en eksplosion der kostede 11 mennesker livet i en minibus i provinsen i januar skulle tilskrives, og uforsigtig behandling af sprængstoffer var en af kandidaterne:
Sisci noted that blasts caused by the careless handling of explosives and other hazardous materials are common in China, despite laws against possessing or carrying them on public transport. "Explosions in China are fairly common because explosives are carried all over the place and used for a variety of reasons -- from mining to fireworks," he said. "They are quite commonly purchased, everywhere."
Hvis man følger lidt med i medierne vil man også engang i mellem se små notitser om, at nu er endnu en kinesisk skole sprunget i luften, og 20-40 flere kinesiske skolebørn er døde. I Marts 2001 var det tilfældet på en skole i Jiangxi-provinsen, hvor 37 skolebørn og 4 lærere døde fordi skolen, for at få budgettet til at hænge sammen, havde sat børnene til at lave fyrværkeri under uforsvarlige forhold. Og det var endda efter en serie af lignende uheld året forud - 33 dræbt i marts, 36 i Juli og 31 i august 2000.
Andre gange er det imidlertid vanvittige sataner, der er ude på hævn for reelle eller indbildte uretfærdigheder, og så lader det gå ud over uskyldige. Også i marts 2001 sprang en arbejdsløs kineser fire bomber i fire forskellige boligblokke i løbet af en time, og dræbte 108 mennesker.
Nu er problemet så, at man ikke altid kan stole på hvad de kinesiske medier siger. Den oprindelige officielle version af marts 2001-skole-eksplosionen var feks at en mand var gået ind i skolen med to sække sprængstoffer og havde detoneret dem. Og hvad angår serie-bombningen er der nogle der mener at en enkelt man ikke selv kunne få en sådan serie-bombning op at stå.
....hvilket bringer på banen at serie-bombninger ("koordinerede angreb" når medierne taler om al Qaeda og lignende) åbenbart er rimeligt almindelige i Kina. Følgende er også fra 2001:
China has seen a wave of bombings in recent months, though the vast majority have been blamed on disgruntled workers or jilted lovers.
On Friday, a series of blasts occurred in two cities in the southern province of Guangdong. Reuters quoted the Beijing Morning Post as saying that several bombs exploded in Zhangjiang city, in "Xiashan, Chikan, Kaifaqu and other areas of the city." Zhangjiang is about 350 kilometers west of Hong Kong. What the targets were was not mentioned.
On the same morning, three separate bombings occurred in residential districts in Jiangmen, some 220 kilometers northeast of Zhangjiang, the Beijing Youth Daily said. Two of the blasts occurred about 100 meters apart, blowing out windows in eighth-floor and third-floor residential apartments along the city's Shuinan Road, the paper said.
Police said the explosions in Jiangmen were the work of an individual bent on avenging himself on relatives and rival businessmen. At least two people were killed in these explosions, including the bomber, and six injured. It was unclear whether the explosions in Zhangjiang were related to the ones in Jiangmen.
Man skal heller ikke afvise, at de kinesiske muslimer faktisk har noget at hævne. I oktober sidste år var der således en reel pogrom mod Hui (kinesisktalende muslimer) i Henan-provinsen. Hvad der reelt udløste det står stadig hen i det uvisse - historierne er dog enige om at en Hui-mand ramte en Han-pige, men om hun kun blev strejfet eller døde af det står hen i det uvisse. Forskellige beskrivelser af hvad der fulgte - Taiwan Security Research:
An official at a local mosque, who declined to be identified, said the violence in the Henan countryside began Wednesday after a traffic dispute involving Hui truck drivers and Han villagers in Weitan, a corn- and wheat-growing hamlet located about 400 miles southwest of Beijing outside Kaifeng, the ancient Song Dynasty capital of China.
The fighting soon spread to several nearby villages, where witnesses reached by phone described mobs looting, burning down homes and beating people in alternating raids by members of the two ethnic groups. As many as 10,000 anti-riot and military police began pouring into the area beginning Friday, but villagers clashed with them too, swinging iron bars and throwing bricks and stones, witnesses said.
In these times:
Fighting between the two communities raged for hours, Ma says, leaving more than 100 dead, more than 400 injured, and several houses and vehicles burned.
Word of the riot spread quickly in the region, threatening to draw thousands more into the frenzy, thanks to the cell phones and computers proliferating even in rural China.
“Thousands of [Han] people surrounded [Nanren village] with bulldozers and tractors and wanted to smash all the Hui houses,” says Zhujian Jun, 32, a carpenter in Zhongmou, a town about 20 miles south of Nanren.
In Ji Yuan, about 80 miles to the west, “thousands of Hui people were getting into trucks to go join the fight,” says Yuan Peng, a Hui man in Ji Yuan. Rumors also spread about a planeload of Huis flying in from the northern province of Ningxia, an officially designated Hui autonomous region, where about 2 million of China’s 8.2 million Hui live.
Local authorities moved quickly to quell the violence, but it was so ferocious that at least 15 policemen were killed before officials called in special paramilitary troops, sources say.
Seattle Morning Herald:
The rival villagers failed to settle their dispute, which quickly grew to involve thousands of people in Zhongmou county between the cities of Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, according to two accounts of the incident.
Local police failed to contain the unrest and authorities deployed the paramilitary People's Armed Police to restore order. Martial law was declared over the weekend, people in the area said, adding that the situation had since been stabilised.
One person briefed on the clashes said that the authorities may have been particularly alarmed after the police stopped a 17-truck convoy carrying Hui men to the area from other counties and provinces as it passed through Qi county, near Zhongmou. Blockades were set up on main roads in the area, and some bus services were halted.
That suggests that word of the violence may have spread through a network of Hui and perhaps other Muslim groups, and that mutual support among them is relatively strong. But details were sketchy and difficult to confirm.
Alt på baggrund at et biluheld. Der skal ikke meget til at udløse noget sådant, når folk allerede hader hinanden.
Update II
Lidt mere om bomber på busser i Kina i år:
An explosion March 17 on a double-decker bus in Jiangxi province, south of Fuzhou, killed up to 30 people. News reports said authorities could not rule out fireworks as a cause.
In mid-January, a disgruntled coal miner was accused of placing a bomb aboard a minibus in the northwestern Xinjiang region, killing 11 people.
Update III
Jeg synes selv, at tusind bombninger om året i Kina lyder af meget, men det viser sig at det er det faktisk ikke. Ifølge BATF var der således i USA (et land med en fjerdedel af Kinas befolkning) 391 alene i 2002 og 220 i 2003. Dertil kommer 114 forsøg på bombninger og 32 for tidlige eksplosioner i 2002 og hhv 43 og 25 i 2003. Uden tvivl er en del knægte der leger med kemikalier, eller venstreradikale der er ude på at sprænge ting i luften, for i 2002 var det samlede antal ofre (inlusive brandbomber) "kun"13 dræbte og 80 sårede. I 2003 var det tilsvarende tal 7 og 55.
Henrik
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