3 'deliberate' bus explosions rock Southern China

I really hope it's not, but with the Olympics only weeks away, I can't see everything running without some sort of trouble.

one thing can lead to another pretty fast, so let´s just hope it´s not another chainreaktion!

why is deliberate quoted? of course it was deliberate. three bus explosions would certianly be a crazy random happenstance otherwise.

Does it strike anybody as particularly out of character for a bunch of farmers to allegedly bomb 3 buses rather than focusing their rage on either the ploice, town officials, or the rubber plant?

In the recent past most protests that escalated to violence did not involve terrorising the gneral public.

To target a public bus system in Kunming might, in the eyes of the alleged perpetrators, be an attack on the Communist Party. These farmers, Reuters says, that were involved or connected to the two found dead in Yunnan this Saturday after a skirmish at a rubber factory have serious grievances I guess. Terrorizing the general population, especially in the form of suicide attacks (which this does not seem to be) is almost always a reaction to central authority or an occupation. Now there are examples to disprove that generalization (9/11 being an obvious one), but I do believe that when pushed to the limit, Chinese citizens will react to the government with violent radicalism.

Now, this is just my own theory, but I hypothesize that the farther away you get from Han Chinese dominated territory (and yes Han Chinese have been populating all parts of China as government policy since 1949, but much of China is indigenous to the Han) -- the farther away you get from places such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, the more diverse the population gets which I believe in general creating feelings of estrangement with a growingly militant strain.

I mourn for the dead and I wish I could believe that retribution would not further a societal divide in China. I find that wish to be a hard won to believe will come true though.

the papers said that the quarrel is because of the rising price of rubber plant. The farmers and plant management have been arguing the ownership of the plantation and the price increase has people in an uproar it seems(because obviously it not being distributed well as usual when dealing with this type of situation). Another article says that terrorist groups in china are using the bombing effort to make a panic and stretch the limit of the security force that involves the Olympics. That way the attendees would feel scared to leave or something, it just seems like the injustice of those who are taken advantage by the gov't dont want to support a gilded Olympics.