http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/01/world/asia/china-railway-attack/index.html?sr=fb030114china230p
QuoteKnife-wielding mob kills 27 at China train station
(CNN) -- At least 27 people were killed and 109 wounded when a group of people armed with knives stormed a railway station in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming, authorities said, according to state news agency Xinhua.
It was an organized, premeditated terrorist attack, authorities told the news agency. No motive has been provided.
Yang Haifei, a resident of Yunnan, told Xinhua he was buying a ticket when a group of people, most of them in black, rushed into the station and started attacking others.
"I saw a person come straight at me with a long knife and I ran away with everyone," he said, adding that people who were slower were severely injured. "They just fell on the ground."
He said he sustained injuries to his chest and back.
The news agency reported that several suspects had been apprehended, and questioning at the site continues.
Doctors were seen transporting injured people to a hospital, the news agency reported.
A doctor with the Kunming No.1 People's Hospital told Xinhua over the phone they're not sure of the number of casualties.
Xinhu said the Kunming Railway Station is one of the largest stations in southwest China.
Ban knives.
clearly not the octagon
We need knife control.
You laugh but wasn't it Britain who wanted to ban swords when somebody cut somebody up with a Katana replica?
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on March 01, 2014, 04:06:32 PM
clearly not the octagon
It is a sign Languish is dying that this was the second joke made.
imagine the death toll if they had guns :P
Bunch of candyass posers. Real hard core terrorists would have strapped explosives to themselves and gone full on homicide bomber on their Chinese asses. Word.
Quote from: Valmy on March 01, 2014, 07:04:07 PM
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on March 01, 2014, 04:06:32 PM
clearly not the octagon
It is a sign Languish is dying that this was the second joke made.
Have we lost anyone recently?
Death toll up to 33 :(
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/02/china-mass-stabbings-yunnan-kunming-rail-station
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 02, 2014, 02:03:41 AM
Death toll up to 33 :(
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/02/china-mass-stabbings-yunnan-kunming-rail-station
And look at that, 34 chinese babies were born in the last 5 minutes.
Of course the 17 girls were drowned in the river.
Win/win?
Quote from: Valmy on March 01, 2014, 07:03:28 PM
You laugh but wasn't it Britain who wanted to ban swords when somebody cut somebody up with a Katana replica?
Swords are banned in Spain... Anything longer than 11 cm* needs special dispensation/registering or have its blade dulled IIRC.
* (yeah, I'm aware that I have left it on a silver platter for a "Spaniards have short dicks" joke)
So is China just morally insane as a country?
Quote from: Valmy on March 01, 2014, 07:03:28 PM
You laugh but wasn't it Britain who wanted to ban swords when somebody cut somebody up with a Katana replica?
Samurai swords are banned. There were about 100 attacks with them in five years and a few murders. They became weirdly popular with gangs.
There's lots of restrictions on knives too.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 09:24:55 AM
So is China just morally insane as a country?
No, they're just not the ethnically homogenous country the world seems to think it is. And the Han Chinese are not welcome in the west.
Yunnan has been Chinese for two thousand years.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 12:22:40 PM
Yunnan has been Chinese for two thousand years.
Apparently somebody forget to post that memo at the train station.
If it really was Uighur radicals, that's thousands of miles away from Yunnan. They're close to opposite ends of the country.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 12:30:40 PM
If it really was Uighur radicals, that's thousands of miles away from Yunnan. They're close to opposite ends of the country.
Big fucking deal, Uighur radicals have attacked people in Tiananmen Square. You go where you can do the damage.
Now I know this whole Ukrainian thing has gotten your ethnic erection all incredibly purple and shit, but try not to think about China's issues through Cossackstani lenses.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 12:30:40 PM
If it really was Uighur radicals, that's thousands of miles away from Yunnan. They're close to opposite ends of the country.
And NYC is thousands of miles from the Middle East. Do you have a point?
I thought
QuoteNo, they're just not the ethnically homogenous country the world seems to think it is. And the Han Chinese are not welcome in the west.
indicated that CdM thought that the Chinese weren't welcome in Yunnan, when self-described Chinese are 90% of the population and the rest aren't radically anti-Chinese.
Yunnan's only 2/3rds Han, and most of that is a result of WW2 and again under Mao's western migration policies. And guess what, they weren't welcome then, either.
Whether or not this attack has anything to do with Yunnan, Yunnan's still not what you think it is, Cossack.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 12:26:11 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 12:22:40 PM
Yunnan has been Chinese for two thousand years.
Apparently somebody forget to post that memo at the train station.
A group of determined men dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, knives tucked into belts, march towards the train station. At the entrance their leader signals them to stop.
Tense seconds tick by as he studies the pamphlet on the door. People shuffle nervously past them.
Finally he takes off his balaclava and turns towards his men.
"It appears that this place has been Chinese for two millennia," he says.
"Huh," says one. "Really. I didn't know that."
The leader shrugs. "Well, I guess that's that, then."
"Thank God," one of the would be assassins says as they stomp off. "We almost made a grave mistake there!"
:P You forgot it was printed on Imperial stationery.
I don't think there's any indication this incident had anything to do with Yunnan besides the fact that Yunnan is a province of China and China controls Xinjiang.
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 01:25:36 PM
I don't think there's any indication this incident had anything to do with Yunnan besides the fact that Yunnan is a province of China and China controls Xinjiang.
I'm not the one that posited the premise that it has anything to do with Yunnan; all I said was "the west" and that you attack soft targets when and where the opportunity presents itself. The Yunnan discussion diverged on its own, Mr. 2000 Years.
Now take your Assburger meds, you've been too literal lately.
Quote from: LaCroix on March 01, 2014, 08:46:38 PM
imagine the death toll if they had guns :P
Zero dead if the people had guns.
The fear of gun ownership and armed civilians keep criminals in check.
They know they cannot fuck around.
However, in China, they are 100% sure no one is armed, not even with a knife, which accounts for the high death toll.
So take your liberal views swallow them with my cum, faggot.
Pussies like you really piss me off..
If it were up to you we would all be fucking slaves.
:lol: Is that the way it works in the US Seeb?
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 12:30:40 PM
If it really was Uighur radicals, that's thousands of miles away from Yunnan. They're close to opposite ends of the country.
That's precisely the point. They make sure they'll not get their own kind in the attack.
They did deliberately kill small children and pregnant women though. Nice PR job there <_<
Quote from: Siege on March 02, 2014, 03:29:06 PM
If it were up to you we would all be fucking slaves.
What is wrong with fucking slaves? You have a problem with property rights?
Yeah, in the US the death toll would have been much higher. A bunch of guys come in with knives and start stabbing people, and then all the concealed-carry assholes start blazing away and accidentally execute everyone in the station.
http://youtu.be/KgJKA_lCR2c (http://youtu.be/KgJKA_lCR2c)
:)
Quote from: Syt on March 02, 2014, 12:48:09 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 02, 2014, 12:26:11 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on March 02, 2014, 12:22:40 PM
Yunnan has been Chinese for two thousand years.
Apparently somebody forget to post that memo at the train station.
A group of determined men dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, knives tucked into belts, march towards the train station. At the entrance their leader signals them to stop.
Tense seconds tick by as he studies the pamphlet on the door. People shuffle nervously past them.
Finally he takes off his balaclava and turns towards his men.
"It appears that this place has been Chinese for two millennia," he says.
"Huh," says one. "Really. I didn't know that."
The leader shrugs. "Well, I guess that's that, then."
"Thank God," one of the would be assassins says as they stomp off. "We almost made a grave mistake there!"
:lol: :thumbsup:
At least 6 killed in further knife violence.
http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/reported-chopping-attack-in-changsha-in-hunan-province/
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