This time, just to the south of us in the Dong Guan area...
Crowds angered by alleged police mishandling of a school teacher's death attacked government offices in a southern Chinese city, sparking arrests and beatings by riot troops, newspapers and a local hospital said Monday.
Students and local residents of Rui'an's Tangxia township claimed police falsified a report and colluded with the husband of high school English teacher Dai Haijing, 30, to have her death classified as a suicide, according to Hong Kong newspapers Ta Kung Pao and The South China Morning Post.
The demonstrators also staged a protest at the husband's factory where they damaged cars and other property
This time...keeping a lid on the information is a little difficult as well. EWSN has the translation of blogs and links to video. Rebecca adds her insightful commentary:
I don't remember protests happening for this type of reason in the 1990's. I think the rise of this kind of protest may signal a new phase. Economic protests - peasants protesting over confiscated land, workers protesting over unpaid back wages and mistreatment, or even students protesting over being cheated out of their diplomas - is one thing. Those kinds of protests have been been going on for a very long time. But for such a big protest to happen over an alleged police cover up - in other words, over something that doesn't physically or economically impact the people demonstrating - that did not happen when I was working in China from 1992-2001, as far as I know.
Indeed. So long as people's bellies are full of rice, they are generally content. This is a different turn...and a hopeful sign for the younger generation, IMHO.
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