Posted on 10/19/2022 8:19:02 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 2005, a Chinese murderer who became the unlikely symbol of migrant laborers’ desperate plight was — quickly and quietly — put to death.
Binyu knifed four people to death, which isn’t the typical stuff to earn a public outpouring. In the course of things, he’d ordinarily have gone to his grave in the anonymity that attends most Chinese executions, perhaps not even a number to international monitors who struggle to ballpark China’s executions to the nearest thousand.
But the government news service published a surprisingly sympathetic interview of him, raising the case up for public comment that state authorities surely did not intend....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
For a “communist” society, China is incredibly classist and elitist.
The story is a common one in China - “rubes” from the countryside are looked down upon, cheated and bullied - often by government itself.
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