Posted on 06/12/2011 1:20:32 PM PDT by traumer
BEIJING (AP) — Paramilitary police patrolled the streets of a central Chinese city Saturday following a riot over the death of city councilman in police custody, the latest in a string of incidents highlighting government fears of widening social unrest.
Thousands of people laid seige to government offices in Lichuan in Hubei province on Thursday, throwing bottles, eggs and other objects and tussling with police, according to eyewitnesses reached by phone and accounts posted online.
Some in the crowd pushed over the compound's electric gate, ransacked the office of the city's Communist Party boss and smashed a large sign reading "Serve the people" — a quotation from the founder of the communist state, Mao Zedong, according to their accounts, which could not be independently verified.
The riot prompted police to bring in reinforcements from the paramilitary People's Armed Police backed by armored vehicles, said residents reached by phone who refused to give their names for fear of reprisals.
"There hasn't been any trouble for the last two days, but the PAP are patrolling regularly outside," said one woman reached at her home.
A receptionist at a hotel located nearby government headquarters said protesters gathered there from morning to late in the afternoon, with the crowd growing several thousand-strong. She said both police and protesters were injured and more than a dozen people were detained.
Staff at government offices referred all questions to the local Communist Party propaganda office, where phones rang unanswered Saturday. An officer at Lichuan's police headquarters said she would have to get permission from her superiors to answer questions about the incident and did not call back.
There were no official reports of injuries or arrests in the riot, although photos posted to microblogs appeared to show policemen clubbing and kicking people.
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Things are set to really kick off when China’s economy stops expanding.
A Han Chinese truck driver was just sentenced to die, after a very quick trial, for the vehicular killing of an ethnic Inner Mongolian.
Thanks traumer.
Never thought I’d say it, but the people in Red China are more free than we are and deserve to be. The American sheeple would never protest anything like this.
There’s been a convergence going on for the last couple of decades. Most people thought China was following us but it’s been the other way around. We still have more liberal laws than them but we’re fast becoming more restrictive with out lefties judges. We can still decide on how many kids to have but...and there’s perhaps a few other things but not much left as they continue to dumb down the people.
Sounds like Trumka has arrived in China to rouse the rabble.
Maybe that's because the police do not murder city council people as much here as in China?
Just a thought.
Christianity is spreading in China like the Fire it is.
There are now more Christians living in China than in the USA.
As more and more people turn to the Lord more of them will throw off the tyranny of the Communist government.
I’m not saying that is what happened here, but their entire culture is changing before our eyes. The fall of Communist China (One China with One Communist Government in its current borders) will happen in this generation.
Jim Rogers had better start to worry. He bet the farm on China. Of course, he will believe that this is just a growing pain and things will be back to normal in a few years. I don’t think so.
you wrote:
“There are now more Christians living in China than in the USA.”
Not even close...yet.
In October 2007 two surveys were conducted to estimate the number of Christians in China. One poll was held by Protestant missionary Werner Burklin, the other one by Liu Zhongyu from East China Normal University in Shanghai. The surveys were conducted independently and during different periods, but they reached the same results.[37][38] According to these studies, there are roughly 54 million Christians in China, of which 39 million are Protestants and 14 million are Catholics as the most common and reliable figure among others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China#Demographics_and_geography
Soon. But not yet.
Over the past few years they've had tens of thousands of incidents of "social unrest" each year. Thousands of deaths from pollution and industrial accidents, no "iron rice bowl," the uprooting of thousands of people for public projects, the new rich screwing the rural peoples. . . .
Gee.. will this set back the schedule -- I think it's next Tuesday afternoon, about tea time, that Red China is scheduled to replace us as the world's only super power.
Are we back in the 60s again where U.S. nutcases IMO worship Red China? Only this time without Mao.
Well, I am disappointed by these facts as I was led to believe by a recent missionary from China which told us there were more than that.
But I have to be encouraged by the growth of followers when it used to be close to zero during the long march and cultural revolution.
I don’t think you can trust official numbers reported by communist China and repeated in Winpedia.
There is a large underground church that does not report their activity to the Chi-coms.
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