CHINA-INTERNAL: LAW AND ORDER
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The official English-language newspaper 'China Daily' reported on June 19, 2014, that 36-year-old Zhang Wei, a Tibetan who was Vice Director of the Stability Maintenance Office in Xinlong County, in Sichuan’s Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, was shot and killed on June 14, as he was returning from policing the lucrative harvest of caterpillar fungus used in Chinese medicine. Zhang Wei had just spent 40 days on patrol when he was killed. A 35-year-old Tibetan man, whose name was given in Chinese as Xue Jia, has been charged with “premeditated retribution,” and a reward of 500,000 renminbi has been offered for his arrest. Personal firearms are banned in China.
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