Girl's death sparks rioting in China: reports (violent riot: video and photos)

Reuters ^ | 06/28/08 | Chris Buckley

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Girl's death sparks rioting in China: reports

By Chris Buckley

Sat Jun 28, 3:50 PM ET

Rioters torched a police building and vehicles in southwest China on Saturday, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl's death, according to Chinese accounts on the Internet.

The reports of the clash in Weng'an County, Guizhou province, could not be immediately verified and government and police did not answer phone calls in the early hours of Sunday.

But the accounts spreading on the Internet, despite China's state censorship, depicted a violent outburst involving thousands of people and lasting several hours.

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Video Footages of Riot

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=BukWSNBBKdM

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=V668sBWnFO8

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=jalRKhSsUKk

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=I3dqK7-__3M

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Ign9Zg00E

Pictures of Riot

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[REDWOOD99]

Wow!!! That is an amazing report. Thank you for those pics.

[nuconvert]

WoW

[Ratblaster]

This pre-olympic moment is brought to you by: The People's Liberation Army. 80 Years of Good Times

[TigerLikesRooster]

brought to you by: The People's Liberation Army.

Don't leave out Paramilitary Police and Ministry of State Security. The Last and not the least, Chinese Communist Party(CCP.)

[PhilDragoo]

Unlike June 3-4, 1989, when PLA shot down unarmed students, ran them over with tracked vehicles, now there are many cameras.

Made in China.

Hahaha.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Getting rich and affording to field expensive war toys have its downside.:-)

[Tainan]

Pack mentality. Rumor riots are a fact of life among the Chinese.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Mostly rumors about abuse of power and corruption by officials.

[Global2010]

Wow.

So all this time and effort the Chinese govt has spent on proper cheering lessons for the public and now the outrage from corupt murderous cover up of a teen.

Cant rope in human emotions.
Good for them to show the outrage and the ineternet too for getting the pictures out to the world.

The article makes it seem like the Chinese govt is more concerned about good mannered sheeple for the Olympics.

Good reportig Tiger esp for those of us or perhaps I am the only one who does not have access to UTUBE.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Things are heating up.
thank you

[dr_who]

Interesting times.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Google maps didn’t have this location. So I looked here:
http://www.maplandia.com/china/guizhou/weng-an/

[gogov]

You’ve seen this scene in Western cities a bunch of times - just see what happens when someone’s team loses - and you are amazed by the sight of this pictures.

What exactly is your impression of China. They do have protests. Granted, not over political issues, but over econmic ones, corruption, and other perceived injustices.

What am I missing?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The Chinese Government can't afford a Tienanmen Square incident this close to the 2008 Olympics or any kind of rise up...

[TigerLikesRooster]

Time to import "robotic" N. Korean crowds who cheer on cue and play well-behaving pedestrians. :-)

Actually, that is what Chinese regime will do. They will select loyal robots(from little kids to old folks) and deploy them on streets and at stadium. They have no other choice.

As for foreign tourists, many will be those from multinational corporations operating in China. Those "company crowds" will put up happy faces, too.

[Ronin]

I am convinced that by now the ChiComs are deeply regretting their decision to host the Olympics.

It’s going to get worse too.

[Caipirabob]

This is in an area pretty far from Beijing. The Chinese dictators shouldn't have any problem isolating the problem so that it doesn't impact the olympics. That's really all they care about.

[potlatch]

[Hahaha.]

Never thought I’d see such a simple word from you, lol!
Yes, the camera phones have their pros and their cons. Probably many more good things than the few who use them badly.