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04-23-2011, 04:02 PM
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Father & Son Set Themselves On Fire In Protest
Lying on a hospital bed below is 92-year-old villager Tao Xingrao who was injured in the Donghai self-immolation incident. Jiangsu father son’s home was still forcefully demolished even after setting themselves on fire. Officials declare that they were resisting the construction of a national highway. In the morning of March 27th, two villagers in Huangchuan town of Donghai, Lianyungang City in Jiangsu province, set themselves alight with gasoline in desperation to safeguard their pig farm from being demolished by force by the town government. The son, 68-years-old Tao Huixi died, and his 92-years-old father, Tao Xingrao, was injured, “with half of the torso charred, and (the part) above the neck bloody”. According to witnesses, they received no help from the staff carrying on the demolition. Nor did the demolition pause for this accident. |