‘Men surrounded my friend’: woman at splashing festival hit in face and genitals by water guns, clothes torn off, causing outrage in China
- The men targeted the woman, shooting at her body, including her genitals, during the festival in southwestern China in the trending video
- The Water Splashing Festival is a traditional event held by the Dai ethnic minority in southwestern China every year
A group of men filmed sexually harassing a woman during a festival in China by shooting water guns at her, targeting her genitals and tearing off her clothes has outraged mainland internet users.
The incident happened earlier this month at the Water Splashing Festival, a traditional event held by the Dai ethnic minority in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province in southwestern China, news site cqcb.com reported.
In the video, the woman is saturated from head to toe as male tourists stand around her shooting her with water guns and cheering as she looks around helplessly before one man tears off her raincoat.
The woman, surnamed Huang, said she wore a raincoat to the festival as she had her period and wanted to avoid getting too wet.
“Many people were besieging me, and it was painful when the water hit me in the face. Someone even tore off my clothes. I was so angry and felt like I would break down,” she said.
The video was taken by a male friend of the woman, identified by his Douyin username Long Fei Fan, who said he was far away during the attack and unable to get to his friend to intervene.