Slain Chinese Couple Mourned In Moscow
The Moscow memorial service for a Chinese couple slain on Memorial Day spanned two cultures and languages.
Inside the Borah Theater on the University of Idaho campus it was a somber, solemn occasion Wednesday to grieve the loss of Ning Li and his wife Xia Ge.
“I had always dreamed of coming to visit this quiet, beautiful small town someday, but I had been hoping it would be to attend Ning’s or Xia’s commencement, but not their funeral,” said Yuanzhang Li, Ning Li’s cousin who gave the eulogy for the victims’ families.
He spoke beneath a stage adorned with white-winged bouquets, and a marriage photo of Ning Li, 36, and Xia Ge, 35.”Now, this beautiful dream has been shattered and replaced by a cruel reality that is facing us and people everywhere … everyone who knows the news is shocked and grief-stricken by the unspeakable deaths of these two innocent people.”
Wenkai Li, 25, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Police records indicate he killed the couple after Ning Li made fun of Wenkai Li’s girlfriend. Wenkai Li then allegedly dumped the bodies in Wyoming before being arrested in Laramie.
Each speaker, from Idaho president Elisabeth Zinser to Huipeng Ba, the president of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association, had their eulogies translated.
, DataTimes