Death brings new channel of dialogue to life

For the past eight years, Shi Yan, a resident of Yunnan province's Yiliang county, has been pressuring the police and knocking on all doors to find out the truth behind her younger brother's death.

After exhausting all of the family's money, Shi, now 35, said the circumstances surrounding the death of her brother Shi Xiaohua has raised many questions. To make matters worse, the killer is still at large and local police have provided no explanations over how he was shot the morning of Dec 20, 2001, at his Yiliang auto repair shop.

"I have tried everything. Sometimes I really want to give up," she told China Daily on the phone yesterday.