Martial Law Declared as Nearly 150 Die in China NYTIMES

              "a curfew in a chinese town" just wouldn't be as mouth watering...therefore it was reported as "martial law" by certain western journos. and in case you guys didn't know...the term "martial law" dun even exist anymore in mainland china.

              the guy driving the taxi, who happens to be a muslim. it was the TAXI DRIVER who killed the girl...not the MUSLIM. ok?  Fair dinkum he didn't kill the girl because he was a muslim and she was a han...but simply because he sucks at driving...understand now?

           these poorly disguised attempts in attacking china is simply illogical...though i like attacking the CCP and see it fall as much as everybody else...but you guys are just too funny...

haha, you are true hilarious.  When did I say you don't care about how many Muslims there are?  I simply said you don't care how many people died because you think it's not a big deal.  Let me say again.  At least ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY people, regardless Han or otherwise died in the riot.  That's a pretty big deal.

There is a saying called "3 feet of ice didn't come from just one cold night."  People didn't just start killing each other because of an car accident.  I am sure by now the Chinese military and police forces have gotten the fighting in control, but by what method?  Do you see any report on this coming from China? 

If a plane crashed and 150 died, they would investigate what caused the accident, probably even ground these planes from flying.  Because they don't want it to happen again.  My previous comment wasn't about you thinking there's too much Muslim, it is about you thinking there's too many Chinese people in general.  "So what's 150 dead?  People in China wouldn't care.  So why you making a big fuss and posting it on the forum?"  That seemed like your arguement.

         ok....sorry for being so sensitive...

        now here's what i think...150 dead, to me...isn't really that big a deal. call me cold blooded whatever if you will...but more people die of floods in china once every few years..and when you've caught the habbit of watching and listening to the news every night, which i have...and you constantly hear about this casualty and that casualty, fair dinkum you'd get numb to those numbers....

          all i'm trying to say is that ethnic tensions are no big deal in china...no one's gonna learn a thing about what happened 'cause the story's simply not gonna be told by the media....

No matter how anyone fells I beg you all not to provoke anyone over this disagreement.  Thats just a general statement, its good to keep discussing things but lets refrain from crossing any lines int eh future.

Clashes like these are pretty common in many parts of the world. I am just wondering why is a clash like this in inland China between the most butchered people in the world getting such a spotlight.

I agree with what friend babyblue's general outlook about this problem. People die all the time. The good thing is that the clash between the 2 ethnicities are brought under control. At the same time, you should also be aware that back in 50s in Taiwan you have pretty much the same stuff. Villages fighting against each other, and large scale gang fights on the street. That's severe too.

I don't trivialize death. But I do feel that there are some things that people do that make death almost a certainty. I am actually more interested now about Hui Han tensions as a result of this, and am still wondering at what exactly is the spark that cause the tensions to boil over.

You accuse of me trivializing death. Doesn't that make you as accusing as babyblue, but from another standpoint? Death happen all the time. Trillions of lives are turned over every second. What can you do about it? Nothing. The best thing we can do is to understand how these tensions flared up and how we can deal with it. At least the CCP is dealing with it. Singapore dealt with it. The western media is aggravating it.

What do you expect the CCP to do? Allow biased media reporting about how the situation went out of control and get more people involved in further clashes? No way. More people would die that way. The realist approach (which respects all life) would try to prevent more lives being lost. AND you can't bring the dead back to life.

       oh look guys...please don't argue over some stupid thing i said...it's not really worth it...fair dinkum it's not.

       i'm only here to have fun with myself and make fun of others...this i admitt. but it's not my intention to intentionally inflame or offend or even insult others. i think i'll know better than that.

       i'm not the kind to get into some really intellectual debate...reason is simple-i dun know jack. so i know when to shut up...most of you guys are more learned than myself.

       so just let me have my fun...if i can't do that here, i'm perfectly happy to look elsewhere..ok?

Originally posted by Gubukjanggoon Hope that don't mean ur leavin bud

         only if this place is not fun for me anymore...

Actually babyblue, I think you down played the magnitude of the event.  The riots in ShiChung and ChungMo are not getting any better. 

This is what should happen if a nation don't wan't to hear their lower class citizens out, and when ever they demanded that they be heard, they are met with deadly force.  People are supposed to rise up.  I am just glad to see Chinese people actually still do have spine left.

Now they just need logical thinking and planning to go with it.