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Thousands of Chinese migrants clash with police in Zhejiang - HK centre
Information Center for Human Right & Democracy ^ | 02/17/09

Posted on 02/18/2009 12:59:15 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Edited on 02/18/2009 4:30:26 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

15 Feb -Our centre has learned that a massive riot broke out in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, over a traffic accident, resulting in bloody conflicts between public security officers and several thousand migrant workers who came from other parts of the country. The locality urgently mustered 1,000 armed policemen last night [ 14 February] to quell the incident, in which six police vehicles were smashed and 100 migrant workers were injured. At the moment, the Tongxiang City Public Security Bureau has arrested 20 migrant workers and verified the incident to inquirers.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; migrants; riot; zhejiang

1 posted on 02/18/2009 12:59:15 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; maui_hawaii; Jeff Head; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 02/18/2009 12:59:53 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

bump


3 posted on 02/18/2009 1:08:57 AM PST by Centurion2000 (01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Once the Chinese people, in mass, decide that their freedom is worth a fight to the death.........the Chinese police and the Chinese military will not be able to stop them........

:}

4 posted on 02/18/2009 2:25:55 AM PST by AwesomePossum ("The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." Confucius)
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To: AwesomePossum

Another Boxer Rebellion.
Love to see it happen.


5 posted on 02/18/2009 3:05:00 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Living in various cities, migrant workers keep increasingly close contacts with other workers from the same native place to safeguard their own interests, such as migrant workers from Sichuan, Henan, and Chongqing. Migrant workers would swiftly call together their townspeople for help when bullied by local police.

This sounds suspiciously like the behavior of Chinese muslims when confronted by mainstream Chinese. Perhaps the migrant workers have adopted the same tactics.

6 posted on 02/18/2009 3:05:32 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Aha! Should have read the earlier post first!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188151/posts


7 posted on 02/18/2009 3:08:05 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Thanks Tiger! The beginning of the end for Da Zhong Hua? Its one thing to look at this as a general riot. Another way of looking at it is workers from hinterland HeNan feeling that they are being ill-treated by their countrymen from the coast (ZheJiang).


8 posted on 02/18/2009 3:16:20 AM PST by MimirsWell (Scipio Pakistanus)
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To: AwesomePossum

“Once the Chinese people, in mass, decide that their freedom is worth a fight to the death.........the Chinese police and the Chinese military will not be able to stop them........”

What makes you think these people were fighting for freedom?


9 posted on 02/18/2009 10:52:04 AM PST by monday
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To: monday
What makes you think these people were fighting for freedom?

What makes you think that I was talking solely about "these people"?

:}

10 posted on 02/18/2009 11:19:55 AM PST by AwesomePossum ("The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." Confucius)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The pot may be coming to a boil. It is certainly simmering.


11 posted on 02/18/2009 2:24:41 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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