- Michael Bristow y Patrick Jackson
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image source, Douyin
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Lamu was very popular on the Douyin platform.
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A Chinese man has been executed for murdering his ex-wife by dousing her with gasoline and setting her on fire while broadcasting the crime live.
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The victim, known as Lamu, was a personality on the Douyin social network, the Chinese version of TikTok.
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Hundreds of thousands of her fans followed her for her videos where she shared her life in the mountains of Sichuan province, in southwestern China.
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The tragic case highlighted the violence against women in china. A survey suggests that a quarter of all women in the Asian giant have suffered domestic abuse.
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Lamu, who left her two children orphaned, reportedly contacted the police to report the violence she received from her husband when they were married, but was told it was a family matter.
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The social media personality attracted nearly 800,000 followers for her upbeat posts about the simple style of rural life that she shared on the Douyin platform.
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Her videos featured her foraging in the mountains, cooking, and making hilarious song skits dressed in traditional Tibetan clothing.
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His publications came to accumulate more than 6.3 million of “I like it”.
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image source, Douyin/Lamu
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“Extremely Cruel”
When her ex-husband, Tang Lu, was sentenced to death, the court in Aba Prefecture, a remote rural area in southwestern Sichuan province where a large number of ethnic Tibetans live, concluded that his crime had been “extremely cruel”. ” and that impact social it had been “extremely bad”.
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In June 2020, Lamu divorced Tang, who the court found had a history of violence against her.
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About three months later, he doused her with gasoline at her father’s house and set it on fire.
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Lamu suffered burns to 90% of his body and died two weeks later.
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The case sparked outrage across the country and sparked a renewed debate on violence against women.
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Thousands of Lamu’s followers posted messages on his Douyin profile, while millions of users on the Weibo microblogging platform called for justice using hashtags that were later censored.
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China criminalized domestic violence in 2016, but it remains common, especially in rural areas.
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Some activists fear that a recently introduced mandatory 30-day “cooling off” period for couples seeking divorce will make it harder for women to escape abusive relationships.
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image source, Douyin/Lamu
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