The roster of personnel underground at the time of the explosion showed that there were 124 people in the mine. However, after verification from multiple sources, the actual number of people underground was 247, and 123 could not be found in the system with valid information.
These miners with no information may have been illegally employed, and they were also not carrying positioning cards. On top of that, the tunnel map provided by the company did not match the actual tunnels, making rescue even more difficult. And according to surviving miners, the self-rescue breathing apparatus that was supposed to provide 30 minutes of oxygen ran out after only seven or eight minutes. It was completely a case of the company, in order to cut costs, disregarding miners’ lives and treating them as expendable. This was also closely tied to the protection afforded by the local government.
The local government of Zhongxiu, on the other hand, told a monstrous lie, claiming early on that 201 people had safely come up from the mine, which was an utterly shameless deception of the people.
At 6 a.m. on the 23rd, the Qin County Emergency Management Bureau reported that among the 247 on-duty workers underground, 201 had safely risen from the mine, 8 were dead, and 38 were still being searched for underground.
What does everyone think about this extremely horrific mining disaster? Additional comments are welcome.
From the earlier book club talk about the various reactionary, opportunistic acts of capitalists during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea to seeing today how capitalists still treat human life with utter disregard, I feel even more strongly how hateful the bourgeoisie is. xjp’s “finding out the cause of the accident and holding people seriously accountable” is complete bullshit. The oppressed masses, if they want liberation, must cast aside all illusions, overthrow zhongxiu, and build their own paradise for the oppressed.
Indeed, after looking it up, for the crime of embezzlement, under the Chinese revisionist regime, “for cases involving amounts over 100 million yuan, judicial practice generally imposes life imprisonment or a suspended death sentence with a two-year reprieve (suspended death sentence).” This is entirely because the bureaucrats under the Chinese revisionists are all corrupt, so they also won’t hand out the death penalty. There are even officials who embezzled over a hundred million yuan and said bluntly: “As long as you don’t sentence me to death, I won’t appeal.”
In the eyes of these exploiting classes, even stealing so much money is somehow not a crime deserving death.
Corruption doesn’t get the death penalty. What that really does is quietly tell corrupt officials that looking at things from a political angle is not the same as looking at them from an economic angle. No matter how much money you want to embezzle or how much you’ve embezzled, as long as you’ve secured your footing and sided with the right faction in the struggle within the bureaucratic monopoly capitalist class, then nothing will happen to you. Even if the whole thing is exposed, or if someone really needs to be made a scapegoat, or if a factional struggle is lost, then going to prison is no big deal. It’s just like going away to recuperate. Which prison isn’t a high-end private single room, with luxury meals and medical care? Why do some officials say they won’t appeal as long as they aren’t sentenced to death? Because they know that once they’re in, nothing much happens, and after they get out they can still rely on their connections to make another fortune
In a video of a journalist interviewing at a coal mine shaft, there was a sign saying the maximum number of people allowed underground at one time was 400. That means there are very likely more than the 247 people that are being claimed now. The current numbers are completely in disarray. They first said 201 people had come up, but now they say another 90 have died—that already adds up to more than 247. Where exactly did these extra people come from? And the day before yesterday they said 88 were dead and 2 were missing, but later it became 82 dead, as if 6 people had somehow disappeared out of nowhere! It can only be said that they are completely making fools of us.
And even the mine’s topographic map is fake — it was made just to get by, but in reality they weren’t mining according to that layout at all. I guess there are two possibilities. One is over-mining, going beyond the permitted extraction limit. That can lead to mine tunnel collapses or all kinds of accidents, like the gas explosion that caused this incident! The other is that they submitted a fake topographic map that only included the officially employed workers and the company’s own mining area. But then the company outsourced a lot of its operations to other companies, and those companies mined according to the secretly agreed routes, creating layers of exploitation. The result is the same either way.
I had ChatGPT search the whole web and summarize it, and even starting from the figures officially counted by Nazi China itself, since reform and opening up began to the present day, at least hundreds of thousands of people have already died in coal mine collapse accidents. This still doesn’t include the numbers that were massively understated, the numbers hidden and not reported, or the death toll from small private coal mines in various places. I previously read an article that I still remember very clearly; it said that a certain place in Shanxi was famous for coal production, and that almost every family had someone who died in a coal mine. As soon as an explosion sounded at the mine, women from dozens of households would cry and rush out, and very often when an accident happened, an entire village would be wearing mourning clothes. This is the profound suffering that the bureaucratic monopoly bourgeoisie brought to the Chinese people after the restoration of capitalism! This blood debt is one that Xi Jinping’s bandit gang and the heirs of Deng Xiaoping will never be able to repay, and revolutionary people will definitely punish them in the end!
This only came out because it was a major accident involving hundreds of people that couldn’t be kept quiet. There are also all kinds of smaller accidents all over the country. At the unit where my mom works, three people had already died before; they were buried alive in a grain silo, and you can’t find anything about it online at all. On top of that, these injured and dead workers are several layers removed through outsourcing between the client and the contractor, and they’re not even正式 workers, so accountability is basically impossible to sort out. In this kind of vague, obscured state, workers lose even the right to live as human beings.
