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Zhao's four roommates at Taifu Middle School are interviewed by reporters in their classroom. Photos: Gao LeiGT
Speculation about the death of a 14-year-old middle school student was recently met with a local police report Tiemoue Bakayoko Chelsea Jersey , which proves that the death was a suicide, rather than the murder many claimed it was.


But questions still remain unanswered, and the incident, which escalated from a local tragedy into a nationwide discussion rife with mistrust and rumors, shows the difficulty many local governments have had adapting to the public relations reality brought by the rise of social media.


Social media failure


At 6:20 am on April 1, police in Luxian county, Luzhou Thibaut Courtois Chelsea Jersey , in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, received a report that someone was lying on the ground outside a dormitory of Taifu Middle School. That someone, who was already dead, was later found to be an eighth grade student at the school surnamed Zhao.


Zhao's grief-stricken mother went to the front gate of Taihu Middle School with her relatives and criticized the school through a loudspeaker, accusing it of causing his son's death, attracting dozens of locals who gathered and watched.


The same day, the Luxian government published a statement on its official Wechat account Ruben Loftus-Cheek Chelsea Jersey , saying they had started an investigation into the death.


Almost instantaneously, rumors started to circulate on social media platforms such as Weibo and WeChat, claiming that the boy was beaten to death by five school bullies who demanded 10,000 yuan ($1,449) in protection money. When Zhao couldn't cough up the cash, the rumormongers said, he was killed and thrown off the building.


Videos that circulated on the Internet seemed to corroborate these stories Ramires Chelsea Jersey , but only some are genuine. In one video that shows Zhao's mother visiting the morgue, purple bruises can be seen all over the corpse's back and there are visible injuries on the boy's hands and elbows. In other videos, a boy that resembles Zhao is beaten brutally by his peers. Many of the video clips were later found to be shot on other occasions, and some were intentionally edited to be misleading. These videos soon went viral on social media platforms, leading netizens to believe that the boy was a victim of campus violence.


According to some observers, "anti-China forces" played a role in the rumors. One video clip that's been widely circulated on the Internet, saying Zhao was beaten to death by five bullies Radamel Falcao Chelsea Jersey , was apparently produced by New Tang Dynasty Television, a New York City-based television station founded in 2001 by Falun Gong practitioners whom many accuse of spreading anti-China propaganda. Many anti-communist websites registered outside China also published rumors as if they were backed up by solid evidence.


The local authorities' unwillingness to respond to these rumors kindled more suspicions. On April 2, the Luxian county government's official WeChat account published a statement saying that the marks on Zhao's body were in line with fall-related injuries, and their investigation had turned up no evidence his death was a murder. Finding the actual reason for the death required an autopsy that first had to be authorized by Zhao's next of kin, the statement explained.


The following day, the government published another statement, saying four netizens will be punished by the police on charges of spreading "fake information" about Zhao's death.


None of these statements Pedro Chelsea Jersey , however, directly addressed the speculation on the tragedy that was rampant at this point. Nor did they further reveal any new details about Zhao's death. The blunt wording of the statements sparked even more guesses on the truth behind the death.


Bad publicity


The local authorities' hostile attitude to the media further escalated the incident, putting the local government's credibility and integrity in doubt.


On April 3, Lü Qingfu and Xie Jiao, two reporters with the Xinhua News Agency, China's State news agency, arrived in Luxian county to investigate the incident. Interview requests from Xinhua Papy Djilobodji Chelsea Jersey , which is an official body on par with a ministry, are usually taken seriously by local governments. Their requests, however, were met with tremendous resistance from the local government, raising public doubts.


Police cars barred all vehicles from entering Taifu township, and the reporters had to walk several kilometers to bypass the roadblock. Taifu Middle School, which the reporters intended to visit Oscar Chelsea Jersey , was guarded by rows of policemen wearing helmets. The reporters tried to interview Zhao's grandparents and classmates, but threats and obstruction from village and town officials made it difficult.


When the reporters asked Chen Jia, the county publicity chief, and Li Shengchun, the county's Political and Legal Affairs Secretary, for more evidence Zhao's death was a suicide, the officials brushed them off Ola Aina Chelsea Jersey , saying they didn't want to respond to online rumors.


The reporters recorded their frustrating experience in an indignant article that was published the next day, titled "Three questions about Sichuan's campus death: How long does it take for truth to be revealed?" "A case that could have been handled through legal procedures gradually escalated and now involves mass gatherings, road closures by the police and the flooding of opinions on the Internet. Rumors abound, and yet the local authorities are not providing the truth to clear them away," the reporters wrote.


"Not offering convenience to reporters might suggest hidden secrets," they wrote.


The article went viral on the Internet, and the local government's treatment of the Xinhua reporters sparked greater and wider doubts about the local government's treatment of the case.


The whole truth?


The finale officially came on April 6 Nemanja Matic Chelsea Jersey , five and a half days after the death of Zhao, when the local authorities finally called a press conference