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 between June and 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][2]

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. Eleven crew members 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.[3]

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.[4]

Reaction

The least sentenced crewman, once released, was interviewed and published a 17,000 character account of the story in January 2016, which was later translated into English.[4] It became an Internet hit that attracted 30 million views and 100,000 comments on Sina Weibo.[5] A monograph, based on a separate interview with the released crewman, was written by a legal journalist and published in August 2016.

On 25 October 2018, the events were loosely adapted into a visual novel titled One-Way Ticket and released on Steam by the Chinese indie game company Zodiac Interactive.[6] For marketing purposes, the plot and the characters were designed to be Japanese, causing a reaction in Japan.[7]

References
  1. MacLeod, Calum (5 September 2013). "Horror on high seas: Deadly tale told at China trial". USA Today. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014.
  2. MacLeod, Calum (7 September 2013). "Mutiny and mass murder on China's fishing fleet". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013.
  3. "Five sentenced to death for murder". China Daily. Xinhua News Agency. 20 July 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  4. Du, Qiang (December 2019). "Massacre in the Pacific: A Personal Account". Words Without Borders. Translated by Harman, Nicky; Jones, Emily. The original source is Du, Qiang (14 January 2016). "太平洋大逃杀亲历者自述". Esquire (in Chinese) (China ed.). Archived from the original on 14 August 2017.
  5. Wang, Xiao (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 [News Research] (6): 86–88. ISSN 1003-3629.
  6. 短笛酱, ed. (25 October 2018). "国产AVG《单程票》Steam正式发售 带你体验真实的海上大逃杀". GamerSky.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  7. Watanabe, Senshū (4 November 2018). "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？". Game*Spark (in Japanese). Retrieved 13 October 2020.

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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