Chinese farmer in suicide attack

[DoYouEverWonder]

7 January 2006

A Chinese farmer has set off a bomb in a court house in north-west China, killing himself and four other people including the court president.

According to the official Chinese media, the man set off the bomb on Friday during a court hearing.

He is reported to have been angry over a land dispute.

The Xinhua state news agency said the 62-year-old farmer forced his way into the court house during a hearing on Friday morning.

He then lit a fuse on explosives he was carrying and blew himself up.

Four other people in the courtroom were killed including the court president and a local Communist party official. At least 20 others were injured.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4589948.stm

[no_hypocrisy]

1. This might be a "first": A Chinese suicide bomber.

[bemildred]

4. Won't be the last.

Won't be just in China either.

[ckramer]

2. It's all Bush's fault

Before the Iraq invasion, suicide bombings were unheard of...now it's freaking fashion everywhere...

[Miss Chybil]

6. Poleeez. What was 9/11? And do you remember the Kamikazis?

Next people will be calling Bush, "God," or "Rove." :-)

[ckramer]

7. Oh, come on

Between kamikazes and 9/11, how many decades had passed without such things that reintroduced after Iraq invasion?

It is Bush's fault.

[Posteritatis]

11. Well, probably zero.

Suicide bombing's been commonplace since at least the eighties, and probably the mid-seventies.

[Centered]

8. you are kidding right?

Suicide bombings have been around for a very long time... Kamikaze or Kaiten anyone? Sri Lanka, Lebanon and Israel in the 80s and 90s too. This isn't a muslim only tactic there were even suicide bombers for the IRA.

[Posteritatis]

10. jinx. ;) (n/t)

[JI7]

12. didn't some Buddhist monks burn themselves to death in Vietnam

during the Vietnam War ? i saw some pictures of it where they set themselves to fire and died.

[Centered]

13. yes there were 7 I believe

http://www.vietnampix.com/fire1.htm

[Posteritatis]

9. You're kidding, right?

Do you really believe that there were no suicide bombings before the Iraq invasion? There've been a shitload of the things, going back decades. If you think suicide bombings originated with Bush, you need to cut back on whatever you're smoking, or at least read a history book or two.

[ckramer]

14. No, I'm not kidding

Sure there were lots of them in other part of the world, but I'm specifically talking about Iraq here. There was no suicide bombings in Iraq under Saddam. Is that not true?

What I'm saying is that since the Bush's Iraq invasion, Iraq has become a heaven of suicide bombing. Is that not true?

Now is that not true that it's all Bush's fault?

[wickerwoman]

15. Because this happened in China, not in Iraq...

:shrug:

And involved a farmer pissed off about his land being requisitioned for an absurd value. It's all up in the article if you'd care to read it.

[Igel]

3. At the same time, I have to wonder if the guy was Uighur.

Or possibly Kazakh. "Chinese", like "French" or "British", can be citizenship, and so cover a multitude of ethnicities.

[leftofthedial]

5. well there you have it. chinese are terrorists

therefore, King George should be allowed to wiretap, without any court order, the phones of anyone who ever used a phone to order Chinese food.

It's the only reasonable way to protect us from the terrists.