Mutiny on Lurongyu 2682

The mutiny and mass murder on Lurongyu 2682 (鲁荣渔2682号), a Chinese squid-jigging trawler, occurred in the South Pacific from June to July 2011. Disaffected crewmen, led by Liu Guiduo, 28, seized control of the ship from their captain. Among the 33 on board, 16 were killed, 6 jumped overboard (later presumed legally dead). [1]

The captain joined the hijack in the latter stage when the hijackers convinced him to sail and to illegally emigrate to Japan together, though the attempt failed. 11 crew returned to China, including the captain. In 2013, all returned crew were convicted of murder, of which 5 were punished by death sentence, including the captain.[2]

The ship

Lurongyu 2682 is the official, generic name of the vessel which means it is a fishing vessel registered in Rongcheng, Shandong. It departed from Port Shidao (石島) in December 2010.

The crew

The crew were split to three cliques, namely, the sailors from Heilongjiang province, the sailors from Inner Mongolia region and the management team from Dalian city.[3]

Reaction

The least sentenced crew, once released, was interviewed and published a 17,000 account of the story in January 2016, which was later translated into English.[3] It became an Internet hit that attracts 30 million views and 100,000 comments on Sina Weibo.[4] A monograph, based on a separate interview with this released crew, was written by a legal journalist and was published in August 2016.

A video game based on this was made by a Chinese company and released on Steam on 25 October 2018, named "The One-way Ticket".[5] For marketing purposes, the plot and the characters were designed to be Japanese, causing a reaction in Japan.[6]

References
  1. Calum MacLeod (2013-09-05). "Horror on high seas: Deadly tale told at China trial". USA Today. Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Also appear as Calum MacLeod (2013-09-07). "Mutiny and mass murder on China's fishing fleet". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
  2. "5 sentenced to death in E China". Global Times. 2013-07-20.
  3. "Massacre in the Pacific: A Personal Account". Translated by Nicky Harman and Emily Jones. Words without Borders. December 2019. This is an authorized English translated version. The original Chinese source is 杜强 (2016-01-14). "太平洋大逃杀亲历者自述" (in Chinese). Esquire China. Archived from the original on 2017-08-14.
  4. 王潇 (2016). "特稿《太平洋大逃杀亲历者自述》的创作特色分析". 新闻知识 (6): 86–88.
  5. 短笛酱 (2018-10-25). "国产AVG《单程票》Steam正式发售 带你体验真实的海上大逃杀" (in Chinese). 出版者. Retrieved 2019-01-12.
  6. "中華ゲーム見聞録：実際の中国漁船虐殺事件が題材のADV『One-Way Ticket / 単程票』登場人物は全員日本人？". gamespark.jp. 2018-11-04.

Bibliography
Monograph
  • Guo Guosong (2016). 太平洋大劫杀 [The Great Hijack and Murder in the Pacific]. The People's Publishing House Oriental Publishing. (The author is a legal journalist, the former senior reporter of Southern Weekly and former executive chief editor of Legal Weekly.)
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