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What would a young asian girl have to do to deserve being shot in the back of the head?
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She was a Tibetan named Penkyi. She had demonstrated against the Chinese in Lhasa, and was one of 4 people executed in October, 2009 for so doing. Although she and another of the 4 had been given a suspended death sentence and instead sentenced to 2 years imprisonment, they were executed anyway.
The folks in Hong Kong might do well to remember them. The Chinese don't F around.
Oops. Bad memory on my part. She looked like Penkyi, but this photo was from 2005. Pengkyi was executed in 2009. This woman was also a demonstrator in an earlier instance, but the sign around her neck apparently says she was charged with murder in that case.
There is an "after" pic, that I don't recommend seeing. DEFINITELY not suitable for work, or before eating, although I've seen worse:
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/main/execution.html
ETA: Perhaps some of our folks who can read Chinese can tell us what the sign says:
This is Penkyi, who was executed in 2009 in similar fashion: