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One Lady in Anguish and the roof top scene in
China
It is hard to believe when
you read the story. The woman was trying
to kill herself by jumping off a roof top in China. A photographer clicked the following photos
to capture the whole event. Wow what
photos they are. The anguish that is shown here is amazing.
The photos come from an
article posted by the Daily Mail online – “Woman
saved from suicide… to face firing squad”
Now the fact was not known
when they tried to save her… that she had just murdered her nephew by
smothering him and then throwing him off the same building – likely the same place
she was trying to jump from.
Now she will face the
Firing Squad with her own execution.
When I lived near China – in
Hong Kong (which is now in and a part of China) it was not uncommon to hear of
Chinese authorities arresting someone for a crime and then executing them.
The execution is usually
done with quite a fan fare. The person is tried publically… and I mean
publically. The entire village of town
that they live in attends the public trial and witness the pronouncement of
quilt. (At one stage everyone was forced to attend from what my sources told me
– specially the family)
A sign with their name and
crime is hung around their neck for complete public disgrace. They are then taken to the edge of the village.
They are blindfolded and made to kneel in front of everyone. A 45 caliber hand gun(or its equivalent) is
placed behind their head, at the base of the scull and with one shot the spinal
column is severed from the body and head. BAM – it is over.
Please excuse me for the
graphic description but there is no other way to understand the photos that you
see today. The Daily Mail didn’t tell
that story in their article – they made the mistake of letting you feel this in
Western Eyes and Ways of thinking. Surely
the woman would have been better off to just confess and then go to prison.
That isn’t the way that it works in China.
I am disturbed by what I
see and hear. It appears to still be the same in China as it was 30 years ago
when we were there.
Oh Boy.
Fourteen years ago I met Mr.
G, a Chinese man in Prison. Last week I
received a very excited note from Mr. G. He was being released from our
Canadian Prison system on Parole and is to be sent home to China – deported.
Mr. G murdered his roommate
when they lived together at one of our Canadian Universities. He was studying
Chemistry and she was studying to be a doctor. In a very angry state of mind he
took her life because she wouldn’t cut classes that day and stay with him.
After the trial in our
court system he was given a Life Sentence. And for the last 25+ years he has
served time for his crime in our Prison system.
My contact with Mr. G was facilitated
by the Chaplain at that time. He felt
that it might help Mr. G in his depressed state of mind… and even possibly spiritually. The contact was good – and in both ways we
saw success.
He was moved from the
Prison that we had originally met in but he continued to write once in a while
with his updates and what was happening to him.
I am not sure where he is
now. It could be he has been transferred to another secure facility or he could
well have left Canada by now. He could be back in China at this time.
The great hesitation that the
Chaplain had and I also shared was Mr. G would be executed when he was returned
to China. They consider his crime to always be with him even though they know
he has been in Prison in Canada.
The Daily Mail reported that
China as one of the highest rates of suicide in the world with 22.23 suicides
per 100,000 people. But that is only the figure that is given by China – not obtained
from an outside source… which could be much higher but no one wants to tell.
After committing the crime
it could well be easier to take your own life and have the shame attached to
your memory... than to be shamed in front of the village and your family and
have them pay over and over again for what you did.
That massive Shame Factor
that is brought by the Government is definitely used to deter any further “bad
actions” by the community members. If this is what this man or woman has done
and brought shame on their family – you had better not do this to your family.
30 years ago we were
involved in hearing about these things because of the “Christian Thing” and
people were not allowed to join nutty groups like we represented. Being shot for being a Christian was a real
possibility… and it happened to some that I knew.
The photos of the poor,
distraught, murderer trying to jump from the building in China has far more story
behind them than someone in Britain or Canada can understand.
Sadly for her – I almost
wish that she would have jumped and made it to the bottom and her death.
But then I really wish that
she would have been helped before any of this happened.
But thinking again – there is
far more than any of us realize in our Western World.
Chinese are still only
allowed to have one Child. This little boy was the only child. And the likelihood that the woman wanting to
jump off the roof is that she could not have children… and a sister-in-law was
rubbing it in… deeply and wounding her even more than anyone would ever know. So
the woman killed her nephew to stop the mouth of the sister-in-law… and then
tried to take her own life.
No one would have known the
whole story if she succeeded with the jump to her death… but if she waited just
long enough to jump – she could have wounded her sister-in-law to the fullest
extent.
Will the sister-in-law now
try to kill herself… and maybe the husband will follow the first two. There isn’t
anything to live for when your child and his best was all that you lived
for. It is terrible to say the least
with what has happened.
The stories and thoughts
are always there. That is the reason that I try my best to help the Prison System
in Canada.
I am thinking of Mr. G
today – wherever he might be. I am thinking of that terrible turn of events in
China and the family with two great losses.
I am thinking deeply and
for a long time.
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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