Violent Clashes in China After Pregnant Woman Struck
Over 5,000 police clashed with 10,000 protesters in Zengcheng City, Guangzhou Province on June 11 and 12. A national highway was blocked and dozens of police cars smashed and burnt. As military support was called in, local residents were able to successfully publish photos and updates online.
The protest is in reaction to a June 10 incident at Xintang Township, Zengcheng City in which a pregnant street vendor from Sichuan was violently hit in the stomach by the public order response team at roughly 9 pm. The crowd who witnessed the violence was so outraged that they beat the team members.
One post on the Chinese version of Twitter, Weibo, claimed: I have been there from the beginning to the end, and said that more than 5,000 police were deployed along with troops, tanks and tear gas.
Numerous people have been wounded, the eyewitness said, one of whom happened to be his cousin. While walking out of the post office, where he had wired money home, the relative was mistaken for a participant and was then so violently beaten by the police with an iron bar that he bled internally.
On the evening of June 11, a witness posted, I saw riot police chasing and beating the crowd. Both sides were hitting each other and innocent passers-by were also caught up in the violence. Burnt and damaged police cars were stranded on the national highway for hundreds of yards, while blood from innocent bystanders was visible on the path leading to the village. So far, dozens of police cars have been burnt, and two tanks are guarding the bank.
Updates were made on this individuals Weibo account throughout the evening. One at 10:39 pm said: Tonight, cars in some places are still being burned and smashed. The deployment of more police has not ended the street violence, since the protesters have now learned some tactics of guerrilla warfare.
Again at 11:14 pm: A large-scale demonstration is being staged from the Xintang Township Government building! to Niuz aicheng Road. Crowds of factory workers are yelling and smashing cars outside the Xintang Township Government building. . . .
The protest is in reaction to a June 10 incident at Xintang Township, Zengcheng City in which a pregnant street vendor from Sichuan was violently hit in the stomach by the public order response team at roughly 9 pm. The crowd who witnessed the violence was so outraged that they beat the team members.
One post on the Chinese version of Twitter, Weibo, claimed: I have been there from the beginning to the end, and said that more than 5,000 police were deployed along with troops, tanks and tear gas.
Numerous people have been wounded, the eyewitness said, one of whom happened to be his cousin. While walking out of the post office, where he had wired money home, the relative was mistaken for a participant and was then so violently beaten by the police with an iron bar that he bled internally.
On the evening of June 11, a witness posted, I saw riot police chasing and beating the crowd. Both sides were hitting each other and innocent passers-by were also caught up in the violence. Burnt and damaged police cars were stranded on the national highway for hundreds of yards, while blood from innocent bystanders was visible on the path leading to the village. So far, dozens of police cars have been burnt, and two tanks are guarding the bank.
Updates were made on this individuals Weibo account throughout the evening. One at 10:39 pm said: Tonight, cars in some places are still being burned and smashed. The deployment of more police has not ended the street violence, since the protesters have now learned some tactics of guerrilla warfare.
Again at 11:14 pm: A large-scale demonstration is being staged from the Xintang Township Government building! to Niuz aicheng Road. Crowds of factory workers are yelling and smashing cars outside the Xintang Township Government building. . . .
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