{"id":59419,"date":"2016-09-15T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=59419 "},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:50:00","slug":"59419-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=59419","title":{"rendered":"China Seeks to Quash Media Reports of Rural Child Murders, Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Authorities in Jinggu township stand guard outside the Li family home after a murder-suicide case in China’s western Gansu province, August 2016.<\/span><\/p>

Photo courtesy of a local journalist<\/span><\/p>

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The ruling Chinese Communist Party’s powerful propaganda department has moved to quash online reports of a woman in the remote western province of Gansu who murdered her own children before committing suicide in one of the country’s poorest rural communities.<\/span><\/p>

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“Regarding the incident of Yang Gailan, the Gansu woman who killed her children, websites must not issue public comments,” editors of China’s tightly controlled media organizations were warned in a recent directive leaked to China Digital Times (CDT).<\/span><\/p>

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“Find and delete any unauthorized or independent reports, and eliminate any politically harmful content or commentary,” the order, dated Sept. 13, said in a translation provided by CDT.<\/span><\/p>

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Local journalists told RFA that local authorities had refused to investigate the deaths of Yang Gailan, her four children and her husband Li Keying in a suspected murder-suicide case that has rocked social media.<\/span><\/p>

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According to local journalist Zhang Weijun, three children under six were given pesticides by Yang Gailan, their mother, on Aug. 24, while a fourth was allegedly beaten to death by Yang, because she refused to drink the pesticide. She died despite attempts to save her at a hospital.<\/span><\/p>

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Yang then took pesticide herself, dying in the ambulance despite medics’ attempts to save her, Zhang said.<\/span><\/p>

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Husband commits suicide<\/span><\/p>

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Yang’s husband Li Keying then killed himself on Aug. 27 after arriving at his home in Jinggu township in Gansu’s Kangle county to find all of his immediately family already dead.<\/span><\/p>

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Li was later found dead, also believed to have committed suicide by drinking pesticide, in woods not far from his home, Zhang said via his social media account.<\/span><\/p>

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Police concluded that all six deaths were suicides caused by drinking pesticides, and declined to investigate further, his tweets said.<\/span><\/p>

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Zhang said the local authorities had imposed an information blackout on the case.<\/span><\/p>

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“I don’t think they will give interviews, but … you can call the Kangle county incident room and ask them,” he told RFA, before supplying the number.<\/span><\/p>

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An employee who answered the phone at the incident room declined to comment, however.<\/span><\/p>

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“We don’t know about that here,” the employee said. “It’s not our case.”<\/span><\/p>

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Li Keying’s cousin Li Keyi gave only a brief interview when contacted recently by RFA.<\/span><\/p>

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“The results of the police forensic tests haven’t come out yet, so I’ll wait for them,” he said, admitting that the police had pushed him to the ground. “But I hope you [journalists] will follow the results of the investigation,” he added.<\/span><\/p>

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Killings are symptomatic<\/span><\/p>

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Internet users have seen the killings as symptomatic of official corruption and grinding poverty that remains in parts of rural China.<\/span><\/p>

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Many have spoken out against a sense of hopelessness expressed in Yang’s desperate actions, blaming the routine mistreatment of the most vulnerable in Chinese society.<\/span><\/p>

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“The police have prevaricated, giving various excuses, and haven’t responded to public opinion,” Zhang told RFA.<\/span><\/p>

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“So the public now wants to know even more what the truth is,” he said.<\/span><\/p>

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He said Li Keyi had been subjected to lengthy police interrogations.<\/span><\/p>

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“He was pretty frightened, probably terrified,” Zhang said. “He asked me to delete any reports that I had written about this story.”<\/span><\/p>

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According to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post newspaper, Yang’s family was only able to eke out a meager living, depending on crops of peas, wheat and canola as well as a handful of livestock for their survival.<\/span><\/p>

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Local officials withdrew poverty relief funding from the family in 2014, saying they earned too much to qualify, it said.<\/span><\/p>

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