Robert Hart, the main character in My Splendid Concubine, wrote, In China, the innocent often suffer along with the criminals where in England the accused often goes free or the sentence is too light.
A piece in The Washington Post, Prison for bosses of China disco after deadly fire, pointed out how two bosses of a nightclub in southern China were sent to prison for more than 15 years for a fire in their club that killed 44 people and injured 64. In addition, the club’s general manager was sent to jail for three years while fourteen other club managers received jail terms up to six years.
A similar fire in America in 1942, the Cocoanut Grove Fire, killed almost five hundred and injured hundreds more. The kitchen helper who started the fire due to negligence was not punished but the nightclub’s owner was sent to jail for twelve years but let out in four.
When Faith Dremmer was killed in southern Illinois by a motorist who swerved across the road hitting her and two others, all he received was a ticket for improper lane use. What would the verdict have been in China?
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