Village chief Qian Yunhui's death remains in the news

The Global Times looks at the ongoing Qian Yunhui story, in which a petitioning village chief is thought by many to have been murdered by local government officials in order to shut him up.

Let's start with the more certain part.

The Zhaiqiao village chief lay mangled underneath the left front wheel of a vermilion truck with eyes shut, blood streaming from his half-open mouth.

Qian Yunhui's internal organs had splattered outward across the shoulder, one arm reaching from under the tire, his head detached from a crushed body near the Puqi county village in the suburbs of Yueqing, a city under the prefecture of the city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Qian, 53, had led a six-year campaign defending villagers' rights against land seizure by the Yueqing government. He had spent three and half of the last five years behind bars for demonstrations in Yueqing and petitioning in Beijing...

...After Qian's suspicious death, tension between villagers and the government officials of Yueqing inevitably intensified.

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