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Lamu was assaulted while on air
A popular Chinese vlogger died after her ex-husband poured gasoline on her and set her on fire while trying to appear on a live broadcast, local media reported.
The blogger, named “Lamu”, was very popular with “Doen”, the Chinese version of TikTok, with hundreds of thousands of followers.
Lamu suffered 90% of his body burns and died two weeks after the attack.
The case sparked a discussion on social media about violence against women in China.
Lamu, 30, from Sichuan Province in China, was known for her happy posts about rural life and was praised for not using cosmetics in her videos and earning millions of likes.
According to the “Beijing Youth Daily”, one of the official media, Lamu’s screen stopped broadcasting and was turned off shortly after the start of the live broadcast on September 14.
Her ex-husband, who only mentioned her last name “Tang”, reportedly broke into her home armed with a knife and a can of gasoline.
After the September 14 attack, “Lamu” was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to the Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital in Sichuan for further treatment, according to a statement from the Jinchuan Provincial Public Security Bureau.
His family asked his followers for financial help, for which he raised more than one million yuan (114,280 pounds sterling) in just 24 hours, according to the Chinese newspaper “The Paper”.
Lamu died on September 30.
What caused this attack?
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, Tang had a history of domestic violence.
Lamu’s sister-in-law, identified as “Mr. Lau”, said she heard his wife “remember that her sister was often beaten by Tang.”
Reports indicate that Lamu divorced Tang in early May: the couple have two children, each of whom has custody of a child.
A news report said that shortly after their divorce, Tang threatened to kill one of the two children if Lamu did not remarry him.
Lamu did, but ended up running away from him. Unable to find her, Tang questioned her relatives, and Lamu’s sister, who refused to reveal Lamu’s whereabouts, was also beaten by Tang.
Family members said that this incident was reported to the police, who, they said, did nothing.
Finally, Lamu divorced him again and obtained custody of the two children.
Police said Tang was arrested on September 14 on suspicion of “premeditated murder.” A police statement said a team of investigators was continuing to investigate the case.
What was the reaction?
The issue has sparked a discussion on Chinese social media site Weibo. More than 70 million people have used a hashtag to mention his death.
One employer said it hoped to “give more security to women.”
Another user attacked the police officers, saying: “Where were they when a report was made (of their previous assault)? Why didn’t they care?
This is not the first time that a victim of domestic violence has faced difficulties in the Chinese judicial system.
Earlier this year, a Chinese woman was beaten by her husband so brutally that she jumped off the net to escape alone.
She later tried to divorce him, providing security camera photos as evidence. But the court refused to grant him the divorce he wanted.
Later, she uploaded the video to social media, where thousands came to defend her, and the court later granted her a divorce.
China had recently introduced a new amendment to the law that gives a period of 30 days for “minds to calm down” before the spouses grant a divorce, in order to allow the parties to reconsider their decision. However, this raised some concern that during this period victims of domestic violence would be forced to rethink their decision.
This law, which will take effect in 2021, does not apply to families with a history of domestic violence, although human rights groups say that many cases of domestic violence are not reported to the police.
