[China](Photos) Africans Living in Guangzhou Protest (police brutality on Africans?)

Boxun ^ | 07/15/09

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(Photos) Africans Living in Guangzhou Protest: Suspect a Fellow African of Being Killed by a Police Officer

By chinafreepress.org (translation)

Jul 15, 2009 - 9:19:15 AM

(Photos) Africans Living in Guangzhou Protest: Suspect a Fellow African of Being Killed by a Police Officer

Boxun reports that at approximately 5 p.m. on Wednesday July 15, a large group of Africans gathered in Guangzhou's Guangyuan West Road to protest. They held up bloodstained clothing, and stated that they suspect a police officer of killing a fellow African. A large number of police were mobilized to maintain order.

Guangzhou has approximately 200,000 Africans living there, most living illegally in the Panju Xiaobeilu and Sanyuanli areas. The protest caused traffic congestion in Guangzhou's western district, more than 100 police were required to direct traffic.

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[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[PapaBear3625]

Do you have any idea how 200,000 Africans managed to get to Guangzhou?

[cranked]

Via migration:

http://www.africansinchina.com/2008-08-08/china-africa-stronger-economic-ties-mean-more-migration/

[TigerLikesRooster]

A littl hard for me to believe, too. However, the Chinese orginal also says so. You have to ask somebody else to figure this out.:-)

The link to Chinese source: http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2009/07/200907151807.shtml

广州发生一起黑人群体聚集事件：疑有黑人被警察打死(图)

(博讯北京时间2009年7月15日 首发 - 支持此文作者/记者)

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来自现场的消息指，事件起因疑似有黑人被警察打死，引发黑人群体抗议。

广州目前有进20万黑人旅居，这些黑人大多盘踞小北路、三元里一带。

事件导致广州西部交通瘫痪，过百警察在现场顺通交通。

[VicVega]

Reads just about the same as the article posted. Instead of African, the reporter wrote black.

BTW, 0 has a half brother living in the Guangdong Providence. 0 has brothas everywhere.

[TigerLikesRooster]

the reporter wrote black.

You are right.

[Rybashka]

Another article: http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE56E0H220090715

Quote from Reuters’ article: “We are angry because the police catch people without passports.”

[VicVega]

"Quote from Reuters’ article: “We are angry because the police catch people without passports.”

Come to the US, we don't care about passports or paperwork.

[TigerLikesRooster]

From the Reuters article,

A Nigerian businessman who gave his name as Emeka said there was no violence, only shouting and the occasional scuffle, and estimated the number of mainly Nigerian protesters at about 100.

Nigerians are everywhere.

[TigerLikesRooster]

So this is your first post at FR.:-)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Do you have any idea how 200,000 Africans managed to get to Guangzhou?

The Chinese are spending huge amounts of money and developing massive infrastructure in Africa in order to get at their wealth of natural resources.

No doubt there are many Africans who have been able to take advantage of that pipeline.

[madamemayhem]

ahh guangzhou. lovely town. it was fascinating really. a 7-11 right next to a laundry/souvenier shop. a diner that served awesome burritos. mcdonalds papa johns pizza.. nice place to stay in a 5 star hotel that overlooks a slum.

[Tainan]

A lot of video of this on last nights 'news' programming here. The africans were out in very large numbers. They were quite aggressive in facing down the Chinese police with their protests. I did not see any actual violence, although that may have just been edited out. The africans also were quite vocal, in Chinese, and made certain to get interview time with the reporters there covering the demonstrations.
My wife and I were both surprised at the large numbers of africans out and about...looked to be several thousand.
They all appeared to be quite large and well-fed. Dressed well also.

The gist was the africans were protesting the local police checking for their non-existent immigration papers. They were all illegally in the country.
They seemed to be of the opinion that their lack of legal status should not be a reason for stopping or questioning by the local police.
Imagine that.

By the way...Guanzhou is a filthy polluted cess-pool of a city. Sewers over flowing onto the sidewalks and thousands of displaced workers sleeping on the streets. Ripe for civil unrest.

[gudong]

“My daughter asked me what I saw in China, I answered,
jeans and black people!”
http://blog.foolsmountain.com/2008/06/14/chocolate-city-africans-seek-their-dreams-in-china/

[Pilsner]

Guangzhou is present name for Canton.