Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Social Unrest In China Grows as Does the Need For Basic Democracy



Democracy is almost nearly a matter of being human, and as the people of China are slowly finding out, a good part of the world are free to protest, practice religion, and speak out. As Chinese citizen begin to gather momentum, we see the growing democracy of the counties underground in subtle ways, i.e. Social Unrest.
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Witness: 1 Killed in China Protest


BEIJING -- A student was killed and at least 60 people were injured in central China when villagers armed with bricks and rocks clashed with baton-wielding police.

The crowd swelled to about 20,000 by Monday and the demonstration turned violent when local authorities dispatched police, who started attacking people, said Zhang, who rushed to the scene after a resident telephoned him.

The protesters in Zhushan were "very, very angry and were shouting 'Beat the government dogs to death,'" Zhang, 22, said in a phone interview. They were throwing rocks and bricks at the officers and set fire to five police cars, he said.

At least 1,500 paramilitary police and riot police wearing helmets and carrying batons yelled back "Beat them to death," Zhang said.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Ccp official figures last year for social uprisings with more than 200 people at each uprising were counted up to 87,000 . In the previous year the official Ccp figures were at 67000 so social unrest is growing. I wonder how much longer the communist regime has to go before total disintegration happens and the brave Chinese people are free from the evil of communism?