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...from oxygen canisters and filled with gunpowder and metal shards. Li Lan's 23-year-old daughter was eight months pregnant and sitting at home when one of the bombs tore through her living room, blowing off her right leg and most of her face. The family dragged her coffin into the middle of the road to protest police inaction. Police forced Li Lan to bury her daughter, and that's when she became an activist partner of Liang. She repeatedly went to police headquarters to demand greater punishment for her daughter's killers; for that, she was detained...
...Five months on, Wang's son has yet to be buried. His elm coffin, carefully sealed with tar to contain the stench, rests inside the family's house. "We won't bury him until the police acknowledge their mistakes and compensate us," says Wang. And that's a macabre form of defiance that has become something of a movement in Lanshan county, an agricultural backwater in Hunan province that is anything but bucolically peaceful. Locals say there are more than 20 victims of fatally violent crimes who remain unburied as a gesture of protest. Their coffins are displayed in homes...
...father in 1996. He told them the incinerator had broken a while back. Each day thereafter brought new appalling discoveries of bodies, some dating back 15 years or more. Fifty-seven corpses were found crammed into six burial vaults. (Each vault is designed to hold just one adult-size coffin.) So far, a skull and torso have been found in the Marshes' pond, where locals used to fish...
...which means that most of these roads to nowhere will be quid pro quo'd into existence. "This is his most critical moment," says political analyst Minoru Morita. "He has to compromise with his opponents in order to survive." But every compromise amounts to a nail in the coffin of his once-ambitious reform program...
...film without a film. Subsequent comedies like Junior, in which he became the first man to give birth, miscarried at the box office. When the news leaked in 1997 that Arnold had undergone surgery to replace a faulty heart valve, it was seen as the final nail in the coffin. Age and poor career choices had succeeded where the T-1000 had failed...