It's part of the system of things. Your system.
"Dark disappearances: How Saudi critics keep going missing" is the head on a related BBC story.
China arrests many on charges of corruption. Good thing; the country's businessmen are known to take and give bribes. [That's how earthquakes do so much damage to schools and other local government buildings, and so little to government officials' residences in the same area.] BBC notes that many of them turn up dead even before trial; suicides, says Beijing. Lots of suicides.
"Meng Hongwei: Former Interpol chief's wife 'not sure he's alive'"
"China's top representative governing the Chinese territory of Macau has died after falling from a tall building ... However, hundreds of mid-level Chinese officials who had been accused of graft have died in recent years - reportedly by killing themselves, though observers have questioned these accounts."
Can't make an omelet without breaking legs.
I thought a "brawl" involved a group of individuals fighting with another group of individuals.
Did the reporter from the Wapo have anyone else there that would have been fighting AGAINST the people that were fighting with him?
A "brawl" with 15 people on one side and 1 person on the other side?
Sounds more like an "whupping"

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