Ma Jinyu and her husband Zhaxi.
A female journalist married to a Tibetan bee farmer was once deified by the official media as a benchmark for romantic love and poverty alleviation. Until last Saturday (6), the female protagonist of the incident, Ma Jin Yu, wrote an article on WeChat to reveal the truth, crying that her husband cheated on her and suffered from domestic violence for many years, and had been forced to flee with her three children for three years. The article sparked a great response, Qinghai police intervened to investigate, and the Qinghai Women’s Federation and other official departments stressed zero tolerance for domestic violence. But some members of the media pointed out that domestic violence is a common phenomenon in China and hardly receives any official attention. (By Huang Xiaoshan/Cheng Wen)
Ma Jinyu, a former female journalist married to a Tibetan bee farmer, published a self-reported article titled “The Other Ram” last Saturday, describing her long experience of being treated violently by her husband Zhaxi, which then drew widespread attention from the society.
Liu Shui, a former reporter from Nandu who followed the incident, pointed out that domestic violence against women and children is a common phenomenon in China, except for the tragic case of Ram, a Tibetan female netizen who was burned to death by her ex-husband, but it is difficult to get high official attention.
Liu Shui said: China’s domestic violence is too common, not to mention so remote Qinghai, you will be in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, slapped two, you call the police, the police will not care. Police officers to give you a little persuasion, on the line, unless the fight is very serious, will be detained for a few days. Is the Ram burned to death, the government intervened. What can be investigated? The matter seems to have been left unresolved.
But this case of domestic violence has also led to different voices. Ms. Ma, a female media personality, said that after the incident, many people did not give sympathy to the victim Ma Jin Yu, but on the contrary, because of her retreat and forbearance, giving others extremely harsh and bullying, this cold phenomenon itself is worrying.
Ms. Ma said: Ma Jin Yu was domestic violence by her husband, and then, she is now a single mother with three children, everyone seems to ignore this point, and then put pressure on Ma Jin Yu side. She can’t even get sympathy. Even if you don’t have the courage to fight the darkness, don’t be the wind that blows out the candlelight in the darkness.
Ms. Ma believes that Ma Jingyu’s background as an intellectual woman, coupled with the official symbols imposed on her as a benchmark, makes things more subtle and complicated. In the usual way, officials and police claim to have intervened in the investigation, but I don’t think there will be any results anytime soon.
Ms. Ma said: Why is she a journalist she must be shrewd, rational, strong it? Ma Jin Yu’s hometown of Xinjiang, which is not developed, is also the kind of macho ah, so she felt that is tolerable well. These two have been made into a benchmark by the government, so she can put up with it.
Ma Jin Yu went to the Qinghai grassland nine years ago to interview bee farmers, 47 days after the flash Marriage, married Guide County bee farmer Zhaxi (real name Xie Decheng), then in the grassland to raise children, leading herdsmen to sell grassland agricultural products to get rich, living the romantic Life she aspired to at the Time. For years, the official media also trumpeted her experience as an idyllic love story, until the person in question wrote an article last week revealing the tragedy herself.
In “The Other Ram,” Ma Jin Yu said that in 2015, her husband came Home drunk in the middle of the night, questioned her about whether she was having an affair with a Tibetan friend, and then violently beat her until morning. She had blood all over her clothes, a hematoma in her eye and a fractured eyebrow, but decided to forgo treatment for her eye because she was pregnant with her third child.
Less than a month after the incident, she saw her husband cheating on her, but he kicked her in the stomach, and after recuperation, she saved her baby. In 2018, she couldn’t stand the long-term abuse of her children and took them with her to leave Qinghai, thus interrupting her honey business and borrowing money for three years.
But there was also a steady stream of mockery and attacks from the public. Netizens have written articles accusing Ma Jin Yu of misleading people with fairy tales of love, and even encouraged girls to be brave enough to “jump off a cliff” when facing love, as she did in a university lecture.
Under the pressure of public opinion, Ma Jin Yu has once again chosen to remain silent, refusing to respond to any inquiries from the outside world. The company’s main goal is to provide a solution to the problem of divorce, and to help the police and the Women’s Federation to cooperate with the investigation.
Zahi, on the other hand, denied cheating and domestic violence to the media. He responded on Sunday (7) that his wife had cut off contact with him after she took the children away three years ago. He denied that he had committed domestic violence, saying that Ma Jin Yu’s eye injury was caused by a car accident. He said in an interview with the New Beijing News that he still had love for Ma Jin Yu and did not know why she had to leave.
Ma Jin Yu’s friends issued a statement, spontaneously to help deal with her debt problems and living expenses, but also that Ma Jin Yu no longer in business, will resume writing in the future, and welcome people to participate in the rescue.
The propaganda department of GuiDe County and the local public security bureau denied that they had previously received a letter of complaint from Ma Jin Yu. The Qinghai Provincial Women’s Federation, which had declared to the official media that it would thoroughly investigate the matter, also did not give an interview on the matter.
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