A few days earlier, the Chinese who worked in the same mine as Zhen Minxin were told of an imminent police raid: “We all did our best to escape before they got there, but many friends got arrested.” Do ones best, means to bribe a Ghanaian policeman, but not all of them are easy to corrupt. “Some let you go if you pay them, others don’t, and in prison you will be bitten by lots of mosquitos.”
After the police, it was the thieves that took all that was left and burned the mine. Zhen Minxin and five associates had invested a total of two million RMB ($325,000) in this mine. “Some thieves tracked us up into the forest”, tells Zhen. He would end up spending only one day in the wilderness, while others hid there for six nights.
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