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Posted on 08/14/2008 7:45:39 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
A source in Beijing says that the murder in Beijing of American Todd Bachman and the wounding of his wife Barbara and their Chinese tour guide were committed by someone other than the individual identified in China’s state-run press.
The three were attacked on August 9 while visiting the Drum Tower, a popular Beijing tourist site. The next day, Xinhua reported that they had been murdered by a 47-year-old factory worker named Tang Yongming who had recently been thrown out of work. Tang was said to have committed the murder out of hopelessness and rage at society, and then to have committed suicide by jumping 150 feet to the concrete below.
According to the Epoch Times’ source, however, a local store clerk saw something different.
Immediately after the murder a witness came out of one of the stores nearby where she works, shaken at what she had seen. According to this store clerk, the murderer was a very tall Chinese man between 30 and 40 years old in a business suit. The killer was said to be very agile and quick and used a double-bladed military knife to commit the murder.
The clerk says that there were security guards within 20 feet of the murder who did nothing to stop or apprehend the killer. While she and other witnesses were too shocked to react, the killer quickly ran away.
The source pointed out “There was a tight security check there with many public security officers. No one could pass the security check with a weapon.”
The subsequent press coverage in the state-run media has been strange. After the murder, the Chinese regime mouthpiece Xinhua published an article about the life of Tang, explaining why he committed the murder. However, that article has been deleted from the Web site, and no......
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“Tang was said to have committed the murder out of hopelessness and rage at society,”
Chinese press is as Marxist as ours? Who knew?
Gee! I thought the Chinese society was the perfect society.
I’ll have to take this with a grain of salt. Epoch times has had dubious stories in the past, such as the revelation of a speech by a Chinese military colonel from 2001 that talked about war with the US, yet there is no other known source for the speech.
I’m not saying it couldn’t be true, but occam’s razor applies here, and it’s a lot more believable that a distraught factory worker might have snapped at seeing the wairenmen wandering around all fat and happy while he has no job, and gone postal. The suicide is just as easily explained as the reaction of someone who knows just how horrific Chinese justice would be on someone who committed a murder during such a high-profile event. Also, there was a body afterwards. The Epoch Times article doesn’t explain how the worker’s body was thrown over the rail by this mysterious suit-clad attacker during his whirlwind attack and disappearance.
I thought the daughter was uninjured and saw who did it. Also, it looks like the mother will survive, so there they are the obvious witnesses.
I sure would like to know what happened that day. I’m very familiar with the Bachman family.
I know you meant no ill intent with the expression ‘fat and happy.’ It’s a common expression. The Bachmans are a very unassuming and humble type of people. As a fellow Minnesotan, I know they are the type that would’ve just blended into the crowd.
Why this psycho picked them out is anyone’s question.
God bless Barbara in her continued recovery and the family in dealing with the loss of their father.
Having been to China, and even taking into consideration that the Olympics were going on, so there were many foreigners in the city, any person who isn’t asian is going to stand out no matter who they are. I visited Shanghai, which is one of only three major cities in China that saw any kind of foreign presence, and I left a trail of whispers and sidelong glances wherever I went.
It was my impression from the usual MSM reports, that Beijing was scrubbed clean to give the world their most advantageous view.
I don’t expect to visit China in my lifetime. Chi-coms don’t rock in my world.
Ping.
Communists lie about everything.
No, I think the Chinese Press is probably not a biased as ours.
Ha you are probably right! I’d heard that about Pravda, too, that overall the reporting was better if it did not involve reports about the State.
I was pointing out that our press is full of the Marxist concept that society, not individuals, cause crime, and here it is in the Chinese papers too!
Talk about cheating! How did the US volleyball team do? Anyone know?
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