Paying off is a bad sign

The Chinese are buying off the families of the dead in Tibet, offering $28,500 each. That's a tremendous sum in China, and an unbelievable sum in Tibet. The population of Tibet in the 2000 census was just under three million, and the GDP was 11.8 billion yuan in the same year. Given the current exchange rate, that's about 1.7 billion dollars, or $567 per person.
Based on that, they're offering people fifty years of earnings, each. The US equivalent would be on the order of one and a quarter million dollars. Which isn't all that much, when you think about it.

But Rico says they don't pay unless they know they're wrong...