China: 4,000 college students rioted in Jiang-su Province (a premeditated riot)

4,000 students at Jiu-jiang University in Jiang-su Province of Southern China rioted, because the school demanded various fees on them, which they cannot pay.

On the night of June 26th in Chinese local time, following the plan they hatched, the students staged the protest, destroying luxury cars parked at their campus, a school cafeteria, and a supermarket, while throwing thermos out of the dorm windows, it is reported.

It went on until 5 am in the morning. It settled down a bit after Cai Xiao-ming, the university president, came to the scene, but the university sustained heavy monetary damages.

The exact details on this incident are yet to come out. Still students said that there has been ongoing tension between teachers and students, and the bulletin boards at the school's home page were shut down due to abusive comments from students.

After the incident, a teacher at this school complained on an Internet bulletin board that he has to watch over students until daybreak every night.

He commented, "There are legitimate reasons for students' anger, but they vented it in a wrong way."

Another poster, quoting his girlfriend, a sophomore at the university, said that, due to the bad public safety situation at the campus, coeds frequently have accidents, and there was also an incident where a lab building under construction collapsed and killed workers.