The official Weixin news release of the Tongliao Municipality Public Security Bureau of Southern Mongolia’s Left Uzumchin Banner reported on November 25, 2016, that Unench, a Mongolian herder from the Ulgai area of Southern Mongolia’s Left Uzumchin Banner, had killed four Chinese named Wei Jianguo, Wei Jianqi (cousin of Wei Jianguo), Wei Jianchen (brother of Wei Jianqi) and An Xiaoping after being beaten by three of the four in a dispute over grazing land and payment of sheep tending. Unench was arrested nine hours later in his home place of eastern Southern Mongolia’s Horchin Left Wing Middle Banner. A statement by the Mongolians, widely circulated via Chinese social media, says: “One, this is not a simple criminal case. This is an ethnic conflict between the Mongolians and Chinese; Two, caution must be taken as to whether this is just an isolated case of land dispute; Three, the key question is whether the suspect’s life was in danger during the dispute.” The case has become the hottest discussion among Mongolians over social media. Poems, essays and statements dedicated to Unench with strong emotion and nationalistic sentiment have been going viral via Chinese social media, regarding him as a "national hero" and "modern day Gaadaa Meiren".