Civil Comic Artistry Work Becomes Popular Online

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• published: 18 May 2012
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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews One week after the bombing occurred in Qiaojia County, Yunnan province, the CCP authority has yet to provide a convincing explanation. During the press conference held by the police bureau of Qiaojia County, it was announced that the explosion was created by a nonlocal male, Zhao Dengyong. This ran counter to the earlier media report which said a woman with a one-year-old baby made a suicide attack. However, local residents showed their distrust of the official version of story and called for the authority to reveal the truth. Recently, a Chinese comic artist produced a comic work to satirize the CCP government's seriously flawed lie. His work has become extremely popular on the Internet in a short time. Some Chinese remarked that, these comics are real reflections of the CCP authority's illegal demolition of civilian homes. One week after the explosion in Qiaojia, Yunnan, the county police bureau and several other governmental sections held a press conference to announce "the truth" behind the May 10th explosion. Deputy Chief of Qiaojia County and local police chief Yang Chaobang told the journalists that the bomber was not someone from a "demolition household," or any female with a surname of Li. Rather, the bomber is a jobless man called Zhao Dengyong who had tendency to seek revenge on society. The official evidence provided in the press conference is the alleged suspect's online chat history and his diaries which showed an eccentric and extreme personality. A video was also played to show that Zhao had been wandering at the scene of the explosion for four minutes. However, Chinese netizens analyzed the official story and concluded it is a seriously flawed lie. A young civil comic artist named Xiaomao hence created a sarcastic comic work. In his comic, the "Qiaojia County" (meaning skillful family in Chinese) was changed to "Benjia County" (meaning clumsy family in Chinese), and the CCP departments such as demolition office, police bureau and petition office were assimilated to the "Office of Three-All" which policy is "burn all, kill all and loot all." The comic became extremely popular soon after being released online. Many netizens applauded the author and praised him as being greatly talented. Huang Qi, founder of 64tianwang.com remarked that the Chinese generally described the illegal demolition as the "Three-All Policy", which was executed by the Japanese in China during World War II. This was because the authority usually first restricted freedom or detained a homeowner before the demolition, then dispatched the demolition group to destroy the house and took away all the possessions in it. Huang Qi: "We can say that this comic depicts the real situation behind the demolition in China mainland." Regarding the bombing incident, a netizen named "Tianyou" revealed on a micro-blog that the bomber was a female with the surname of Li. Allegedly, her husband died several days after being detained during a demolition; she was then called to sign to receive her husband's bone ash, but instead she chose to take the bomb and her baby with her. "Tianyou" mentioned that over 20 were injured in the explosion, and at least 6 were killed. On the other hand, the authority reported on May 11th that the bomber was a male called Zhao Dengyong who was one of the four deaths in the incident. The report also denied any relationship between the local demolition office and the bombing. Local villagers appeared distrusting of the official story. A Qiaojia villager commented that demotion must be involved in the incident, otherwise no one would choose a suicide bomb. Qiaojia villager: "What's wrong with that person if he made an explosion without any clear reason? If you have nothing to do with the office, why do you sacrifice your life to attack the building? It's not like in the street, right?" Zhao Dengyong's family members also presented five questions about the explosion. Local residents and netizens are demanding the authority provide a more reasonable, truthful explanation. According to the villagers, conflicts induce by land acquisition take place frequently in Qiaojia County in recent years. During the compulsory land acquisition, the authority only agreed to compensate 24170 Yuan per mu of land. However, they could sell the land to developers at 1000 Yuan per meter square, which is 27 times the compensation. Therefore almost no villager was willing to sell their land. Six days before the explosion, a resident of Baihetan Township, Yang Yuqiang, burned his motorcycle at the signature spot of land acquisition. On April 18th, a resident of another township of Qiaojia County Ding Fazhao was beaten to death by the authority's hired thugs when he resisted the demolition.