The van driver stops for a moment, presumably realising in horror that he has just hit a toddler. Then he drives on – crushing her again beneath his rear wheels.This is indeed the horror. How could it be possible? A toddler crushed by a truck is ignored? Is this something that's cultural? Is this what happens when a country becomes overpopulated? This indifference? I can't help thinking of that line near the end of the Chinese film Blind Shaft: China's main resource is human life. Is this what happens when a human being is, to use the words of Bob Marley, "just another stock on the shelf." What has happened to China?What follows is arguably even more horrifying: a dozen passersby ignore two-year-old Yueyue as she lies in agony in a busy market in southern China. Several glance at her bloodied body before continuing, while others walk or wheel around it.
Their apparent indifference means that she is hit again, by a truck. Surveillance camera footage from the busy wholesale market in Foshan, Guangdong, shows that it takes seven minutes before a woman finally stops to help.
One said that while the footage was heartbreaking he would have been "numb" to Yueyue too. "Would you be willing to throw your entire family's savings into the endless whirlpool of accident compensation? Aren't you afraid of being put into jail as the perpetrator? Have you ever considered that your whole family could lose happiness only because you wanted to be a great soul?" he wrote.It really does come down to the root of all evil.
