Would The Thais Have Investigated This Death ?

[gobbledonk]

This saga appears to have it all - corruption, dodgy business dealings and a cold-blooded female killer - but what struck me about it is that the cops didnt simply write the Brit's death off as 'alcohol poisoning', particularly when the husband of the accused killer was a very big shot in the Communist Party.

 

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I was particularly interested in this part of the story:

 

the only physical evidence that has been gathered is a piece of Mr Heywood's heart.

 

This, he said, was removed by Chongqing's former police-chief Wang Lijun before the victim was cremated.

 

For a country which has its own issues with Police corruption, this struck me as some very diligent police work from our man in Chongqing. I have to wonder how many Thai cops in a similar position would have put that much effort into the investigation - we have had several cases here in Oz where the Police just havent done their jobs, with no apparent repercussions. How easy would it have been to just brush this one under the carpet - conspiracy theories aside - and just go back to donuts and coffee ......

[Horneytorney]

there would not have been any extensive investigation, if Bo Xilai had been still in power in Chongqing! He was already out in the race for the succession of Hu Jintao and he polarized within the communist party and had many enemies. this incident just accelerated his fall

[kamui]

there would not have been any extensive investigation, if Bo Xilai had been still in power in Chongqing! He was already out in the race for the succession of Hu Jintao and he polarized within the communist party and had many enemies. this incident just accelerated his fall

 

 

Xilai was becoming stronger and stronger within the party. The case was used to keep him out of reach of the central committee of the Communist Party. That's the Chinese way how to eliminate a powerful opponent within the Communist Party ranks.

 

Since it seems that all low and high ranking Communist Party member are corrupt, the leadership or a powerful enemy always can find a way to put a party member into jail. Just read the bombshell article in today's New York Times about the wealth of the current prime minister Wen Jiabao. He came from a common family without any wealth and now his family is around 3 billion USD worth. For example his 90 year old mother, a former school teacher, owns a part, valued 120 mio. USD, of an investment company.

http://www.nytimes.c...&_r=0&ref=world

 

Of course China has blocked access to the NYT immediately.

[gobbledonk]

So you guys are saying it WAS a conspiracy to get her husband ??

[baa99]

Bo Xilai was a leader in the Cultural Revolution that killed millions (especially targeting teachers). He was still glorifying that era. Well, karma has just kicked his butt.

[kamui]

So you guys are saying it WAS a conspiracy to get her husband ??

Nope, but it gave his opponents a perfect opening to take him down.

[Horneytorney]

Bo Xilai was a leader in the Cultural Revolution that killed millions (especially targeting teachers). He was still glorifying that era. Well, karma has just kicked his butt.

sorry but that is certainly not correct

Bo Xilai was born in 1949

the peak of Cultural revolution was from 1966 - 1969, some say that it lasted until Mao's death 1976

Bo Xilai was 17 years old, when it started!

 

what is correct is that he was a communist hardliner and against any reforms.

[Wallenda]

sorry but that is certainly not correct

Bo Xilai was born in 1949

the peak of Cultural revolution was from 1966 - 1969, some say that it lasted until Mao's death 1976

Bo Xilai was 17 years old, when it started!

 

what is correct is that he was a communist hardliner and against any reforms.

 

A lot of the cultural revolution was about Mao calling on teenagers and children to turn against and publicly humiliate their teachers, so actually his age would make him a perfect candidate to have been involved in it.

 

Quick check on Wikipedia just now says that his father, who was in government, was purged and imprisoned in the cultural revolution; his mother ended up dying too, was tortured. It says it is possible Bo denounced his father, but nothing there about him making a name for himself as part of it, he himself spent 5 yrs in prison during it.

 

Regardless, BBC reported this:

 

Mr Wen indirectly criticised Bo Xilai at his last National People's Congress news conference in April.

 

Although he did not name Mr Bo directly, he said that local authorities must ''seriously'' reflect and learn from the Wang Lijun incident. He also touched on China's Cultural Revolution, a chaotic 10-year period when normal life was turned on its head. He warned that China could experience a similar period of instability without political reforms, and that "the mistakes of the Cultural Revolution… have yet to be fully eliminated". This was seen as criticism of Bo Xilai's approach in Chongqing.

 

Mr Bo had enjoyed reminding people of the days of the Cultural Revolution, by sending volunteers into the countryside and giving rousing speeches about China's communist past - moves that gained him many left-wing supporters.

 

So he paid talked up the Cultural Revolution in public despite the fact it destroyed his parents. Interesting.

[Horneytorney]

A lot of the cultural revolution was about Mao calling on teenagers and children to turning against their teachers, so actually his age would make him a perfect candidate to have been involved in it.

 

Quick check on Wikipedia just now says that his father, who was in government, was purged and imprisoned; his mother ended up dying too. It says it is possible Bo denounced his father, but nothing there about him making a name for himself as part of it, he himself spent 5 yrs in prison during it.

being involved and being one of millions, who denounced their family members, neighbors etc. is something totally different than being a leader in the cultural revolution as claimed by the poster!