China teen's death sparks massive riot

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Mobs angry over alleged cover-up of girl's rape and murder attack govt buildings
By Tracy Quek, China Correspondent

BEIJING - THOUSANDS of angry residents in a south-western Chinese county smashed government buildings and torched several police cars over the weekend to protest against an alleged cover-up of a girl's death.

As many as 10,000 people were involved in the protest in Weng'an county of Guizhou province.

Seen in pictures posted online, rioters smashed the windows and wrecked the facade of at least one government building.

http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/image/20080629/ST_IMAGES_P1BLURBS30-A52.jpg

Police listed Li Shifei's death as suicide. The her uncle, a teacher
was reportedly beaten to death when he questioned the police.
-- PHOTOS: AFP
Link (http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_253078.html)

If there's anyone sane at the IOC, that person will have a lot of sleepless nights over the next few weeks until the Olympics are concluded.

[Rhino]

Big "if".

[DesertFox]

That's really sad, though. To my western eyes there are so few really good-looking Chinese women, and that girl was a doll.

Where Rule of Law is weak or missing altogether, extravagant beauty is often a curse for a woman. A Korean who escaped the hell of North Korea wrote a book, This Is Paradise!, in which he describes among other horrors the cruel fate of a beautiful young woman who got sucked into the gulag just because some thug in the system wanted a piece of her. Such women were routinely gang raped by guards. The writer saw her again a few weeks later and she was near death from maltreatment and starvation.