For criticizing the victims of the Sichuan earthquake

May 22, 2008 12:50 GMT  ·  By

The disaster that recently struck China has moved and impressed people all over the world, not to mention the Chinese people. But it appears that there's at least one person who was left untouched by the disaster left behind by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, that hit the Sichuan province. A video on YouTube shows a young Chinese female making a number of offensive comments regarding the events related to the earthquake that occurred a few days back.

The young woman is said to be 21-years old and she is called Gao Qianhui, although at first she was thought to go by the name of Zhang Ya. It seems that her 5-minute invective-laden harangue against the victims of the Sichuan earthquake has raised a considerable number of comments from the people that were mourning the Chinese victims. According to a post on Blogging for China, the 21-year old woman says the earthquake victims are beggars, and wonders out loud why their dead bodies are always presented on TV. She even goes as far as saying she wants the deaths of some of the survivors as soon as possible.

The woman is now detained by the police in the northern city Shenyang but, as of now, there are no details regarding which is the law that she broke. Her outbreak raised more than 17,000 comments from the Chinese Internet users of the Netease site, where her story was posted. One of the comments, for instance, expressed the user's doubt on the woman's level of humanity or lack thereof. This incident has made Gao Qianhui very popular, to such an extent that now Internet users know where she lives, her telephone number and her personal id information.

Taking in consideration the number of comments that have been posted against her, the fact that her personal information has been disclosed means that she will be bombarded with harassing messages. Here is just a sample of the woman's comments: "How many of you died? It was just a few," Gao said. "China has so many people, anyway."