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[quote=BOBERT,446575]THE fate of a toddler left comatose after being knocked down by a van in a market - with her mangled body run over by a second vehicle and ignored by 18 passers-by - has prompted an outpouring of soul-searching and self-revulsion across China. Yueyue, two, was 100m from her family home in Foshan, south China, when she wandered into the path of a van on Thursday last week. The child might have been saved if a seven-minute procession of cyclists and pedestrians had not looked the other way. The callousness of the drivers and those who walked on has been taken by Chinese as evidence that the country is losing its soul. One netizen commented on what he called an ethical decline that starts with corrupt officials and ends with a "zombie" population stripped of its humanity. "Find those 18 passers-by, dissect their brains and see what medicine the Communist Party has been feeding us to make them like the walking dead," wrote one widely forwarded post on the Chinese equivalent of Twitter. Even after Yueyue was carried off the street and put against some sacks, the unwillingness of people to become involved was all too obvious. The 57-year-old rag collector who finally moved her ran from shop to shop to find the toddler's parents and was repeatedly told to mind her own business. After doctors declared the child brain dead, her parents received a phone call from one of the drivers saying: "If you had hit her, you would run too." A man who identified himself as the same driver told local media: "If she's dead, I may pay only about 20,000 yuan ($3200, but if she's injured it may cost me hundreds of thousands of yuan." Both drivers have since been arrested. As details of the tragedy emerged, surveillance camera footage provided harrowing images of cyclists, shoppers and even a mother and child ignoring the bleeding toddler as they walked by.[/quote]
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