Guards indifferent to petitioner's pleas
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Two security guards working at the Kaixian government's office building in Chongqing municipality were fired on Wednesday after photos showing their indifferent attitude towards a petitioner posted online aroused public criticism.
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Liao Fuping and Zhu Daguo stand at the entrance to the Kaixian county office building as Yin Xianqiong lies at their feet in this Jan 13 photo taken and posted online by an unnamed netizen. |
They were fired for damaging the image of the government, a local official said yesterday.
Liao Fuping and Zhu Daguo were on duty when a woman named Yin Xianqiong came to the Kaixian government's office to voice her grievances on Jan 13.
The woman was sent out of the building after she lost control of herself, but she tried to get back inside and began crawling on the ground in despair.
Liao and Zhu simply stood at the gate while Yin crawled at their feet.
A passer-by took several pictures and posted them online, which resulted in intense attention, most of which criticized the government for their inhumanity and brutality.
In response to the postings, Xu Wenpei, deputy director of the Kaixian government's publicity department, said that "the behavior of the security guards doesn't represent the image of the government".
"They (Liao and Zhu) are not government employees. They were hired by a company that provides security service to the office building. But their behavior did impose severe hazards upon the image of the local government," Xu said.
Yin, a 45-year-old widow in the local village, went to the Kaixian government to petition on Jan 13, claiming she was not allotted enough contracted land and insufficiently compensated in forest and farmland.
Liao and Zhu, the two security staffers who were then on guard, after failing to persuade her to go to the petition department in another building, took her to the staffers on duty on the 11th floor.
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