Another mass incident?

Another "mass incident" broke out. This time in the northeastern province of Jilin, at the Tonghua Iron & Steel Group.

The official account, predictably enough, attributes the tragic outcome to a few rumormongers taking advantage of the many being ignorant of the truth.

Why? Why were the workers so furious? Why were they so brutal to their new general manager, who died after being beaten up? An official account of the incident, released by the Xinhua website three days after the tragedy, does not answer that. Instead, unlike initial reports from other sources, the official version is too general and devoid of details. So we, too, are in the dark as to the truth of the incident.