Liviu Librescu and Kelamayi
Apr 20th, 2007 by LKS
Although I had never heard of the event until now, many Chinese bloggers have compared the heroic act of Liviu Librescu blocking the Virginia Tech shooter from entering his classroom so that students could escape, and the shameful acts of Chinese officials at a huge fire in Xinjiang in 1994 that killed over 300 middle students.
Apparently, during that fire (克拉玛依大火), local officials reportedly used a megaphone to yell at the students to stay put until all of the leaders had left the building. 据传有人在大火时高声大呼:”学生们不要动，让领导先走!”
About half of over 700 students died, while all of the officials lived.
Professor Librescu showed everyone what heroism is, and I guess we need people like those Communist officials at Kelamayi to demonstrate how rare that trait can be.
