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Deng Yujiao, a waitress in Badong County of Hubei Province, stabbed a local official to death after he made unwanted sexual advances towards her. This case has drawn a lot of public attention on Chinese blogs.
According to a news portal run by the county government, three local government officials went to an illicit entertainment venue after a night of dining and drinking. Deng Guida, the director of the local government's business promotion office, requested "special services" from Deng Yujiao but was rejected.
Deng Guida hit Yujiao's head with a stack of RMB (Chinese currency) and said “Don’t doubt that we don’t have enough money (for the special service).” He then pushed her down on the couch. When she was unable to free herself, she stabbed the man several times with a fruit knife. Deng Guida died on the way to the hospital.
Many Chinese bloggers have expressed their sympathy and support of the waitress and believe she was exercising her right of self-defense and shouldn't be liable for any criminal charges.
Some bloggers even think of her as a heroine helping to eradicate corrupt officials. Some articles posted on Chinese website said that the waitress’s knife stabbed at the soft spot of Chinese Communist Party officials’ absence of moral values.
Hao Jinsong, the director of the Beijing Legal Assistance Center, thinks the case reflects a common social problem in China. Average people have been suppressed by the corrupt regime for a long time. The outbreak of their anger could easily result in aggressive actions like what happened in this case.
The Chinese Communist Party regime is notorious for the corruption problem. Even according to official Chinese reports, from the vice-chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, to members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Commanders-in-Chief, CCP officials of provincial and municipal levels, to CCP officials of county, district, and village levels, cases of bribery, selling official posts, and supporting mistresses has never ceased.
Although a lot of officials have been punished, the problem cannot be resolved fundamentally due to the lack of an independent justice system and the one-party dictatorship without media supervision.
Hao feels that cases causing public outrage such as the stabbing incident could also be used by the authorities to distract from the upcoming 20th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre.
This case has again exposed the corrupt situation among CCP officials and Chinese citizens’ burning animosity towards them.
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