Posted on 07/28/2011 7:37:07 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Angry residents in a southern Chinese city went on the rampage after officials apparently beat to death a disabled fruit vendor, a state media said on Wednesday, in the latest incident of social unrest in the world's second-largest economy.
The China Daily said that thousands of people gathered on the streets of Anshun in Guizhou province on Tuesday afternoon, throwing stones at police and overturning a government vehicle.
The riot was sparked after urban management officers – a quasi-police force that enforces laws against begging and other petty offences – were suspected of beating the vendor to death, the newspaper said.
“The unidentified vendor died in front of the gate of a market ... which led to the gathering of the local people,” it cited a government statement as saying.
Xinhua news agency said around 30 protesters and 10 police officers were injured in the unrest.
The elder brother of the dead man has “consented to (an) autopsy and asked police to seek justice,” it added. “Police are questioning six city management staff members involved in the case.”
An overturned vehicle could be seen in the distance, along with many police officers and a black armoured car used by China's riot police.
Reuters could not authenticate the footage, nor when it was taken. Calls to the Anshun government seeking comment went unanswered.
“It was a total mess,” one onlooker surnamed Jiang told the China Daily. “The people threw stones at the police officers and my feet were hit by flying rocks.”
Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper said that the police used water cannons to disperse the protesters, who finally left the scene late in the evening.
China's stability-obsessed rulers get nervous about any sort of protest or unrest.
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The pot boils, keep the lid on too tight and see
what happens.
In Marxist=commissars=community organizers with guns
Just sayin'
In 2012 America this will happen over lemonade stands.
Can't they at least confirm whether or not the vendor is dead?
“In 2012 America this will happen over lemonade stands.”
At the rate things are going I wouldn’t be surprised if a SWAT team is called out to take down a lemonade stand and one or more children die as a result. I think a riot will be the least of the bureaucrat’s worries when that happens.
bump.
This is what happened in Tunisia in 2010. There is no doubt that China and Russia took note of Arab Spring.
Governments must also use force, like in this example, to quell small protests before they get big. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have given the blue print for quelling protests. Harsh crowd control, eliminate the opposition leaders, and use effective propaganda domestically and internationally. China has the benefit of the Great Firewall to limit protest sizes unlike unstable Arab countries which descend into civil wars between government loyalists and organized opposition.
Thanks, I was thinking further west.
And, let’s see; our trade imbalance with this thug nation is what? When will we quit whining about protectionism and start making these bastards PAY US to sell their crap in the USA? The starvation of North Korean, Chinese, Ugandan, Somali, and other nation’s people is not ours to solve, nor to accept responsibility for. Let them tote their own freight, or sink. We need less dependent nations, more national pride, less whining, and more ‘tend-to-our-own-business’, from all nations.
Not much difference from when cops in America murder people, like the guy at Costco or the man beaten to death while screaming “Dad! Dad!” yesterday...
Ed
But the government sent a message to free market vendors:
Do not sell bruised fruit under penalty of death.
The difference is the Good Americans “respect authority” and do nothing.
I guess that is what the serfs have to do in a fascist country to get some against against murderous thugs dressed in a cop uniform. Here, we sure don’t have a legal system anymore - our elite’s political friend across the oceans - China.
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