rogerluli Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...88-2703,00.html Link to comment
rogerluli Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 http://socialistworld.net/eng/2009/05/2001.html Sounds like another case of China's infamous URBAN MANAGEMENT thugs beating up some student vendors who were trying to make some money to pay for their education... Link to comment
rogerluli Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 And the "Official" version... Nanjing confrontation Officers from the urban management corps of Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu province, are in the spotlight after causing the city's largest university unrest in years. The officers, whose identity in recent years has been synonymous with brutality against the poor and often unregistered street vendors, allegedly attacked a group of students who set up sidewalk stalls in the city's Jiangning district on Monday about 6pm. Claiming a female student was injured in the incident, thousands of outraged students from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics took to the streets and cut off traffic for nearly five hours. The students carried slogans in both Chinese and English claiming to protest through Gandhian "nonviolent noncooperation", and used cellphone cameras to take photos which were uploaded and widely circulated across online forums. The photos showed students approach dozens of traffic and riot police with signs reading "help vulnerable social groups and construct a harmonious society" - a vow of the central government since 2004. The line of riot police, who arrived on scene at about 9 pm, was at one point broken through by protestors, according to eyewitnesses who recalled the incident online on early Tuesday. The stalemate ended at close to 11 pm, when the students gradually began to leave, witnesses say. But Nanjing police, in a statement to China Daily, denied students set up stalls on Monday night in the square, or that anyone was beaten or verbally abused. (China Daily 05/22/2009 page4) Link to comment
rogerluli Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Ops wait... now city authorities are back-pedaling on the whole idea of a RIOT in their burg... Just didn't happen... Nanjing denies report of protest(China Daily)Updated: 2009-05-21 08:06 Comments(0) PrintMailAuthorities in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, denied yesterday that university students had been victimized by "chengguan", or urban management officers, who were enforcing orders against sidewalk stalls. "No university student was setting up sidewalk stalls on Monday night in the square (in Jiangning district)," the city's publicity security bureau said in a statement to China Daily. Hundreds of students were reported to have protested following an incident on Monday night in which the "chengguan" allegedly attacked women university students who set up sidewalk stalls in the square. The statement said no one was beaten or verbally abused. "Some of the students had mistakenly thought that two people escorted from the scene by officers were students, which led to students and citizens forming a crowd," it said. China Daily Link to comment
rogerluli Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Wowa things are sure hot in Nanjing these days...Violent protests are as thick as fleas on a hound dog...Now it's the TRAFFIC POLICE getting into the act...In case you didn't know being a member of the traffic police in China is simply a license to be an extortionist... Officers sacked after violent street protestBy Hu Yinan (China Daily)Updated: 2009-05-22 10:02 Comments(5) PrintMailThree traffic police assistants have been sacked after they sparked a mass protest in which one thousand people poured onto the streets and officers were pelted with bricks. The incident began in Baiyin city, Gansu province, between traffic police and a cyclist who officials say "failed to stop" at a red light around noon. According to an anonymous eyewitness, the traffic police and their assistants "pulled Zhang Bing off his bike and beat him until blood was all over his face." Zhang only quarreled with the police when they tried to take him away to wash off the blood, the source said on China News Net. In the Baiyin government's version of events, Zhang is a jobless 21-year-old who "agitated the crowd by jumping onto a police car, claiming to be a student who had been beaten by the officers". As a crowd of up to 1,000 gathered and more police arrived, a confrontation between protesters and police broke out. Ten officers and government officials were injured by brick-throwing protestors, the government said. After that, "about 200 protesters surrounded the county government building", according to the official story, which says the crowd did not disperse until midnight. Link to comment
knloregon Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Roger, thanks for being on top of this. No doubt about it, China needs to instill the rule of law, and real impartial courts----riots precipitated by outrageous police and para-legal forces continue to threaten China's internal security, and unfortunately, the government, mostly local and regional don't understand that justice through the courts adds to, as they say: "a harmonious society' ---it doesn't detract. A definite flaw in China's social fabric. Interesting though, that the first China Daily account was very similar, factually to The Australian --- but actually harsher in tone towards the urban management corps. Conveying the clear message that the Central government doesn't approve of these regional tactics. Link to comment
rogerluli Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 I couldn't agree more to both points...It doesn't take long in reading Chinese netizen's comments to realize how unhappy they are with the endemic corruption of many local officials...Imagine how much greater a country China would be if everyone felt they were governed in a fair and impartial manner... As to the differences in the stories...I found The Australian version first and then had to dig to find the account on China Daily...So yes they do seem to take a hard line against this kind of thuggery but they are not going out of their way to point it out... Link to comment
whome? Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 I couldn't agree more to both points...It doesn't take long in reading Chinese netizen's comments to realize how unhappy they are with the endemic corruption of many local officials...Imagine how much greater a country China would be if everyone felt they were governed in a fair and impartial manner... As to the differences in the stories...I found The Australian version first and then had to dig to find the account on China Daily...So yes they do seem to take a hard line against this kind of thuggery but they are not going out of their way to point it out... Actually Roger I read the account in China Daily on May 21 and it was featured online as one of the top stories that day. I look at China Daily online every morning. What I find interesting too...in addition to your comments ... is the link in the Australian version that the riots somehow are related to possible protests over upcoming anniversary of Tinnemmann Square .... Link to comment
rogerluli Posted May 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 I couldn't agree more to both points...It doesn't take long in reading Chinese netizen's comments to realize how unhappy they are with the endemic corruption of many local officials...Imagine how much greater a country China would be if everyone felt they were governed in a fair and impartial manner... As to the differences in the stories...I found The Australian version first and then had to dig to find the account on China Daily...So yes they do seem to take a hard line against this kind of thuggery but they are not going out of their way to point it out... Actually Roger I read the account in China Daily on May 21 and it was featured online as one of the top stories that day. I look at China Daily online every morning. What I find interesting too...in addition to your comments ... is the link in the Australian version that the riots somehow are related to possible protests over upcoming anniversary of Tinnemmann Square .... Evidently Nanjing was a center of protest in 1989 also... Link to comment
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