Former Macau 14K triad boss, Wan Kuok-Koi, has published a video commenting on a recent viral video of a woman brutally attacked at a restaurant in Tangshan, China urging bystanders to intervene whenever witnessing “such injustices”.
CCTV footage showing the attack on a woman at a Tangshan restaurant, in which she was repeatedly stomped on and assaulted after refusing the advances of a group of men, quickly spread on Chinese social media.
Nine men were later identified as suspects and detained by Chinese police.
In an uploaded video, Wan – also known as ‘Broken Tooth’ – comments that the violence demonstrated was “inhuman” and generated a wave of “public indignation in the whole country”.
“Chinese traditional culture always regards respect for women as beautiful, and there is also a popular saying that “men do not fight with women”. Men are physically stronger than women, for natural reasons. It is also a gentleman’s courtesy for men to protect women in daily life,” Wan says in the video.
The former triad leader also criticised the “culture of indifference” in the country “from the elderly falling without help” to the current series of reported “beating incidents”.
“The indifference of society hides a serious lack of ethical culture. The Chinese culture has a long history of benevolence, and you can’t see the glory of this culture in the few people standing by in the video,” he states.
He then urged his “brothers” of the World Hongmen History and Culture Association, to “not stand idly by when they see such injustices”.
Wan founded the World Hongmen History and Culture Association with the defined purpose to ‘love the nation, organize cultural exchange activities in various places, and pass on the history and culture of the Revolution of 1911’.
In 2018 Wan stated that the headquarters of the World Hongmen History and Culture Association had been established in Cambodia, that it would issue “Hongmen cryptocurrency” as part of its e-commerce business, and that the Association would establish schools to allow ethnic Chinese living in other countries to learn Chinese culture.
The association was sanctioned and blacklisted by the United States Treasury Department in December, 2020 as an alleged front for triad activities.
The 67-year-old former crime boss spent 14 years in jail over a string of murders and bombings in Macau before being released in 2012.
