What's the most fashionable performance art to do online after the mysterious death of a young woman in a wholesale market in Beijing? To make a commitment that "I would not kill myself, and my possible death must be a homicidal one".
Yuan Liya, a 22-year old girl, fell several stories from the wholesale market building in Beijing on May 3rd. The police at once declared that she committed suicide and invented a new legal word "death of self-fall from height" to describe her death, which on the contrary infuriated her boyfriend and family, and led to their refusal to the conclusion and a rare protest around the building involving hundreds of people.
Soon, the rumor that Yuan the girl had been sexually attacked before her death was spreading online, especially on Sina Weibo the twitter-like SNS website. The police also denied this rumor and refused her family's request to check the surveillance videos in the market and pressured them to consent to a quick cremation of her body. Some time later, governmental-backed media supported police's points on Sina Weibo.
The name of the girl "Yuan Liya" and the market "Jingwen" soon became censored on Sina Weibo, which is an apparent suggest that no one should discuss this topic again. So here comes the performance art of "Commitment of No-Suicide". Many big names posted online the commitment of "I would not kill myself and my possible death must be a homicidal one" to satire the case.
PS: a latest news reported that Yuan's family accept RMB 400,000 as the compensation and promised not to require further investigation.
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