Following on from: http://www.dramasian.com/forum/show...atten-little-girl!-Warning-Disturbing-footage!! BEIJING (Reuters) - A two-year-old Chinese girl run over by two different vehicles and ignored by passersby died on Friday, state media said, in a case which ignited public uproar over what some called a moral numbness seeping through society. Both drivers who ran over the girl have been arrested, but Internet users have flooded microblogs decrying the apathy of the people who left her for dead, after graphic footage from a security camera of the incident went viral. Wang Yue died of brain failure more than a week after the accident in Foshan in the far southern province of Guangdong, Xinhua news agency said. "The hospital went all out and made utmost effort to save her. But ... her injuries were too severe and the treatment had no effect," Su Lei, the director of the Guangzhou Military Hospital's intensive care unit, told a news conference. The surveillance video from the October 13 hit-and-run, aired by a television station, shows the girl run over by a van, which drives off leaving her to bleed on a narrow street. More than a dozen people over the next seven minutes walk or drive past the girl on bicycles and she is run over by a second truck. A woman then pulls the girl to the side of the street before her mother, a migrant worker, rushes into the frame. China's economic boom and the growing disparity between the rich and poor have made changing social values a contentious topic, with some lamenting what they see as materialism replacing morals. "Now people have become so selfish. So many people walked by but no one helped her because they didn't want to get into trouble," said Yang Yaying, a 21-year-old Beijing resident. Wang's death quickly became the most talked about topic on China's popular Twitter-like microblog service, Sina's Weibo. "I hope that this little angel who was discarded by society can act as a wake-up call to the nation about the importance of moral education," wrote one blogger, "gongzai xiaoben." "Hope you can find some love in heaven. This world is full of apathy," added "Winter space." Xinhua said her father had received more than 270,000 yuan (26,000 pounds) to help pay for Wang's medical treatment, with donations flowing in from Chinese people all over the world. INTROSPECTION A senior provincial social worker, Liu Runhua, said he did not believe the case reflected a wider malaise in Guangdong. "Those who ignore the dying make up only a handful of people in the province," the China Daily quoted him as saying. "But cases when dying persons aren't given help, or when good Samaritans get into trouble, are often widely reported in the media, which tends to make the public concerned." The provincial capital, Guangzhou, plans a law to protect good Samaritans and give rewards of up to 500,000 yuan for such actions, the newspaper added. The provincial Communist Party chief, Wang Yang, urged "searching reflection" on the incident, the official Guangzhou Daily reported. "Take active and effective steps to raise the moral standards of the entire society," he told a meeting of province officials, according to the paper. "We should look into the ugliness in ourselves with a dagger of conscience and bite the soul-searching bullet," Wang also said, Xinhua reported separately. Many people in China are hesitant to help people who appear to be in distress for fear that they will be blamed. High-profile lawsuits have ended with good Samaritans ordered to pay hefty fines to individuals they sought to help. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/chinese-girl-dies-hit-run-sparked-outrage-040048358.html
I have not watched the video as i cant stomach that kind of stuff, very sad indeed. hopefully it has shamed people (regardless of nationality) into not walking past these kinds of things.
there's the censored versions thats not as bad to watch... skips the vans, but shows all the people and bikes =/ at least she's put out of her misery and pain, after all that depressing world we live in
A friend of mine is saying China is trying to make it law that it is now punishable if they ignore people in need of help. I don't know how true that is but that's sad that it had to become law in the first place
i hope something will be changed since thisss....otherwise her death would mean nothing... and it also made me think...mebe things like this happen/are happening all the time but this was the only one caught on cctv and hit the news...????..
^ it does happen, even I am guilty of it to a degree, for example if i see kids fighting i will not get involved (even now) because in many cases you end up being the one getting hurt because kids can have knives. But if it was something like that, where a person (especially a little child or elderly person) gets hurt like that (going by what i have heard as i wont watch it) then you just have to help.
this is so sad. my parents were talking about it last night. society has come to this. in vancouver they are even airing commercials about saying "thank you" when driving! i even saw a commercial about how good deeds are so much more noticeable than bad deeds because ppl dont do good things anymore. what does that say about society. it's not just Chinese ppl it's about the world we live in today. ppl are scared to help ppl and just don't want to be bothered by it. a teenager died in vancouver recently because he was trying to break up a fight between a man and woman on the bus. he got stabbed for trying to help a woman. now, when i see one of my customers do something good for other ppl i give them a free coupon for a coffee or something just to say thank you for being a good person. it's so sad that we've come this in today's society.
You're totally right on .. not just Chinese .. a lot of people are apathy these days. I blamed first and for most is the mass media .. television, music, internet, and video games largely attributed to this type of behavior. When you see so many bloody stuffs on media, you're bound to become desensitized .. oh, just a dead body .. no biggy. Of course, everyone wanna protect themselves these days too.
saw the video...terrible terrible incident. the passersby and the drivers all disgust me. it is definitely a shame the world we live in today. :(
I haven't watched the video either. My parents and friends have told me about it, I think it's enough for me. I don't understand how people can be so heartless - standing there, walking pass. Watching and doing nothing. They have no morals!
How can people be so cruel? What is wrong with the people in this world. I could never walk by and pretend i never seen this. The 18 people who passes by should be punished, if it was them or someone in their family i'm sure they would want someone to help them.
