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A senior triad was knocked down by a car and hacked to death by three men outside a five-star Hong Kong hotel, police and reports said on Wednesday.
The 41-year-old was attacked outside the Shangri-La hotel in the Kowloon district of the city at 4am on Tuesday, a police spokesman said in a statement.
The victim, named in reports as senior triad boss Lee Tai-lung, was hit by the car as he stepped out of his silver Mercedes-Benz after parking it at the hotel, the South China Morning Post said.
``Another vehicle arrived, then several men got out of it and attacked the man with knives,'' chief inspector Glenn O'Neill of the anti-triad unit told the Post.
Both cars and the attackers fled the scene immediately and a police statement said two burnt-out cars which they believed to be linked to the attack were found a few hours later.
The victim suffered ``serious chop wounds to his arms'' and was certified dead two hours after the attack, the statement said.
An investigation is now being carried out by the police anti-triad unit, the statement said.
The Post said police were looking for at least five men in connection with the attack.
Lee was a senior member of the Sun Yee On triad group, who held an enforcer role within the group, various reports said, citing unnamed police sources.
About 40 men attended a ritual outside the hotel on Tuesday night, calling out ``Come back dai lo (big brother),'' the South China Morning Post reported. Triad members usually call their leader ``dai lo''.
Several triad gangs operate across Hong Kong and Macau and are widely involved in extortion, prostitution, drugs and copyright piracy.
Violence tends to be limited to Chinese areas away from expatriate and tourist areas
(Story: http://www.watoday.com.au/world/triad-boss-hacked-to-death-in-luxury-hotel-20090805-e9jk.html)
Information about Sun Yee On
Sun Yee On (traditional Chinese: 新義安; Cantonese Yale: sàn yih òn) (Sun Yee On / New Righteousness and Peace Commercial and Industrial Guild) is one of the leading triads[1] in Hong Kong and Mainland China, with the largest number of members—around 25,000 members.[2] They are believed to be active in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and the Netherlands[3] and in the government of Guangdong Province in Mainland China.[2]
Sun Yee On was founded by Heung Chin, originally from Chiu Chow, in 1919.[4] He was deported to Taiwan in the early 1950s and continued to lead the organization from there.[4] Sun Yee On was allegedly taken over by his eldest son Heung Wah-yim, who ostensibly worked as a law clerk.[4]
In February 1986 a former Hong Kong police officer, Anthony Chung, who had become a member of Sun Yee On, asked the police for protection.[4] He identified Heung Wah-yim as the leader of the Triad and this led to the police arresting eleven members of the Triad on 1 April 1987.[4]
Whilst searching Heung Wah-yim's law office they found a list of 900 numbered names which appeared to be the membership roster of Sun Yee On.[4] In October Heung Wah-yim was brought to trial, along with five accomplices who all pleaded guilty.[4] Heung Wah-yim protested his innocence throughout the trial, claiming to be the president of a local chapter of the Lions Club and that the list found in his office consisted of potential donors.[4]
Chung and together with another former member were the main prosecution witnesses. On 20 January 1988 the jury found five of the defendants guilty, including Heung Wah-yim who was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, acquitting the sixth
(Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yee_On)
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