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A mass riot erupted on the afternoon of June 26, in Chizhou city, Anhui province. Over 2,000 people gathered at the scene where several police vehicles were burned and the local police station was ransacked, until the situation was brought under control by 700 officers from the Anhui Province Public Security Office before midnight. The government media and the locals tell two totally different stories about the circumstances surrounding the incident. This is typical of such riots, but BBS messages commenting on the Chizhou riot suggest the public in China is well aware of the falsity of the government media...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, set fire to cars and wounded six police officers in an outburst likely to worry communist leaders in Beijing desperate to cling on to power. The official Xinhua news agency, in a rare report on a local disturbance, blamed Sunday's riot in Chizhou in dirt-poor eastern Anhui province on a few criminals who led the "unwitting masses" astray. The violence was the latest in a series of protests which the Communist Party, in power since 1949, fears could spin out of control and become...

/begin my translation China: A Large Riot Broke Out In Anhui Province [Epoch Times, 2005/06/28]  In the afternoon of June 26, 2005, a large riot broke out in Chi-zhou, Anhui Province, China, in which about 10,000 people attacked a police substation and set fire on police vehicles.  However, crowds at the scene disagreed with the Chinese media report, and explained the situation as follows:  "At 2 pm, Liu Liang, a middle school pupil was a riding a bicycle, and it happened to graze a car which the owner of Ren-he Clinic, a private hospital, is riding, resulting in a scratch. The argument from both...