Angry, furious, outraged, shocked, stunned, dumbfounded, appalled, dismayed, disgusted, repulsed, sickened, upset…
By this whole disastrous incident and its aftermath.
AND one of the highlights got to be this government official’s ridiculous explanation
Let’s see how CNN described what he said in the press conference.
“”How can we cover up an accident that the whole world already knew about?” said a defiant railway ministry spokesman Wang Yongping. “They told me they buried the car to facilitate the rescue effort — and I believe this explanation.”
Wang was terse when reporters asked him to explain the fact that a toddler girl was being pulled out of the wreckage alive 20 hours after the accident — and long after authorities declared no more signs of life in the trains.
“That was a miracle,” he said”
The CNN report did not even do him justice. What he said was, “I believe this explanation, you believe it or not.”
Just like what the CNN reported,
“Although Chinese reporters raced to the scene, none of the major state-run newspapers even mentioned the story on their Sunday front pages. A user of Sina Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, first broke the story and increasingly popular social media outlets then provided millions of Chinese with the fastest information and pictures as well as the most poignant and scathing commentaries.”
I don’t think I have ever checked my weibo account more frequently than in the past two days, because I would miss something if I did not check often enough, as the mainland China internet patrols delete sensitive posts very quickly after they has been posted.
This doesn’t stop all the netizens from “retweeting” all those sensitive posts! Again and again!
Here are some of the interesting posts I read on weibo, some of those have already been deleted from weibo.
I saw the Hong Kong Apple Daily Headline being retweeted
I guess only TMD (fxxx in English) can express the anger of the oppressed.
A very well-written satirical post
A list of the death tolls in different accidents/disasters in mainland China in the past
None of these incidents had a death toll of more than 35, it was mentioned in the commentaries that high ranking government officials would be fired if there were more than 35 people being killed.
(And when I read this post, the fatalities was still just 35, and shortly after this post was deleted on weibo, I noted the number increased to up to 38.)
A poignant tweet from a famous actor. (This has already been removed by the internet patrols.)
A courageous commentator criticizing the leaders’ decision to bury the train before search for casualties had been completed. This has been deleted on some of the Chinese internet sites as well. Hence I moved it to my own youtube account.
With the candles and the ribbon, and the number of retweets (this was also deleted shortly after I read it), I kind of suspect that this might be some sort of satire on this incident? Though I am still not sure… Anyone can explain this to me??
Reference: The CNN news article I copied in this post
Chinese netizens outraged over response to fatal bullet train crash
