She was a promising student at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, a talented musician who loved to swim and dreamed of studying German and computer science.
But in her sophomore year, Zhu Ling began suffering acute stomach pains and hair loss, eventually becoming severely disabled. Lab tests showed she had been poisoned with thallium, a toxic metal used in rat poisons, but police made no arrests and quietly closed the investigation.
Today, 19 years after Zhu first fell ill, she remains paralyzed, nearly blind and has the mental capacity of a child. And her case is suddenly generating a firestorm on Internet discussions in China and elsewhere, highlighting the Chinese public's anger over perceived injustices, the powerful force of social media and the deep pains of a family that for two decades has sought answers from secretive authorities.
Zhu's sad story has been publicized before, but a surge of sympathy expressed on the Internet started after the news last month of the poisoning death of a Shanghai university student. Full story...
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But in her sophomore year, Zhu Ling began suffering acute stomach pains and hair loss, eventually becoming severely disabled. Lab tests showed she had been poisoned with thallium, a toxic metal used in rat poisons, but police made no arrests and quietly closed the investigation.
Today, 19 years after Zhu first fell ill, she remains paralyzed, nearly blind and has the mental capacity of a child. And her case is suddenly generating a firestorm on Internet discussions in China and elsewhere, highlighting the Chinese public's anger over perceived injustices, the powerful force of social media and the deep pains of a family that for two decades has sought answers from secretive authorities.
Zhu's sad story has been publicized before, but a surge of sympathy expressed on the Internet started after the news last month of the poisoning death of a Shanghai university student. Full story...
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