Tingene eskalerer i Kina
Jeg har lavet en del indlæg om uroligheder i Kina, men nu lader det til at de er begyndt at eskalere. Det kunne tænkes at vi lige så stille ser begyndelsen til en kinesisk borgerkrig? Washington Post:
Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang said last month that the number of what he called "mass incidents" was rising fast across China, according to an official who heard Zhou speak at a closed meeting. Zhou said that 3.76 million Chinese took part in 74,000 such protests last year, which he characterized as a dramatic increase.
Perhaps more worrisome, Zhou continued, is a "noticeable" trend toward organized unrest, rather than the spontaneous outbursts that traditionally have led to violent clashes between citizens and police. ..
As far as is known, even the most violent protesters have been armed only with farming tools in the spate of unrest over the last several years. Similarly, police responding to riots have generally been equipped only with clubs, staffs and tear gas. There have been no reports of firearms being used.
However, officials told a party newspaper in Guangxi province last week that police found arms, ammunition and explosives in a raid Thursday against villagers who refused to heed orders to stop illegal mining. The villagers had already clashed once with police in late June, the Reuters news service reported. ..
Deng, who was at a meeting of the conference addressed by Zhou recently, said the minister showed concern about instances in which police must react violently to bring protests under control. This was particularly true, he said, when police broke up a protest in Beijing in April by People's Liberation Army veterans demanding better retirement benefits. Another protest by disgruntled PLA veterans was held last week in Beijing as the army marked its 78th anniversary, witnesses said, and police intervened to break it up by hauling away a number of demonstrators.
Razziaen i Guangxi-provinsen (En provins i SV-Kina beboet af Chuang-folket, der er tættere på thai´erne end kineserne) bliver beskrevet således af Reuters, via Yahoo News:
About 800 policemen clashed with armed villagers during a pre-dawn raid in southern China and arrested 47 people after residents defied a crackdown on illegal mining and went on a rampage, a local paper and officials said.
Police raided four villages in Hezhou in Guangxi province on Thursday and seized firearms, ammunition, explosives, detonators and machetes, said the Legal Express, which is published by the Guangxi branch of the Communist Party.
The newspaper's Friday edition did not say if any policemen or villagers were injured in the three-hour raid in which police "fought bravely." ..
Disgruntled villagers had gone on a "beating, smashing and looting" rampage in June, it said, without elaborating. Officials declined to provide details of last month's turbulence.
Wielding clubs and shields, policemen took 42 men and five women into custody on Thursday, a propaganda official said.
"They're suspected of violently resisting the law in the June 24 incident," the official surnamed Li told Reuters. ..
Land disputes, corruption, abuse of power and a widening gap between the rich and the poor were among the reasons leading to the number of protests shooting up to 74,000 last year from just 10,000 in 1994, a Hong Kong newspaper reported last month.
The number of people involved in those demonstrations jumped to 3.76 million in 2004 from 730,000 a decade earlier, the Beijing-funded Ta Kung Pao quoted Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang as telling parliament's top advisory body. ..
In June, some 300 toughs with rifles, clubs and sharpened pipes descended on Shengyou village in the northern province of Hebei and clashed with farmers, who were angry over a lack of compensation and staged a sit-in on land slated for a new lime plant, in one of the bloodiest in a wave of rural unrest.
Six villagers were killed and scores injured in the clash, which highlighted growing disputes over land rights in China, where rapid development is encroaching on rural property and where the government places an overriding emphasis on the need for social stability.
Samtidig var der også oprør i Indre Mongoli (en nord-kinesisk provins). The Guardian via Taipei Times:
More than 1,000 villagers in Inner Mongolia took the local Communist Party chief hostage Thursday in the latest land dispute to rock the Chinese countryside.
Amid signs of division in the government about how to handle rural unrest, the residents of Qianjin village have also driven off hundreds of armed police and blocked construction of a motorway they claim is being built through their crops and homes without adequate compensation.
"About 2,000 protesters have surrounded the local government office," a resident, who declined to give her name, told the reporters by telephone. "They are holding the general secretary and another official." ..
In protest, they halted the work by occupying the building site and seizing construction equipment. Last week, they repelled more than 100 police who had been sent in to empty the site and arrest the ringleaders in a six-hour clash.
"The entire village is in a state of anarchy," Han Guowu, the district chief, told reporters. "Please trust the party and the government," he said. But such pleas are falling on deaf ears as more and more Chinese peasants take matters into their own hands.
The protest in Qianjin is at least the third since April in which locals have fought, and -- at least temporarily -- beaten public security forces.
In June, six peasants were killed in Shengyou, Hebei Province, during a battle with thugs employed by a power company to force them off their land. The government recognized the validity of their dispute, sacked the mayor and promised the villagers that they could keep their property.
Two months earlier, the residents of Huankantou, in Zhejiang Province, fought off more than 1,000 riot police during a protest over a chemical plant.
Det er stadig småting i et land som Kina, men det eskalerer.
Henrik
Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang said last month that the number of what he called "mass incidents" was rising fast across China, according to an official who heard Zhou speak at a closed meeting. Zhou said that 3.76 million Chinese took part in 74,000 such protests last year, which he characterized as a dramatic increase.
Perhaps more worrisome, Zhou continued, is a "noticeable" trend toward organized unrest, rather than the spontaneous outbursts that traditionally have led to violent clashes between citizens and police. ..
As far as is known, even the most violent protesters have been armed only with farming tools in the spate of unrest over the last several years. Similarly, police responding to riots have generally been equipped only with clubs, staffs and tear gas. There have been no reports of firearms being used.
However, officials told a party newspaper in Guangxi province last week that police found arms, ammunition and explosives in a raid Thursday against villagers who refused to heed orders to stop illegal mining. The villagers had already clashed once with police in late June, the Reuters news service reported. ..
Deng, who was at a meeting of the conference addressed by Zhou recently, said the minister showed concern about instances in which police must react violently to bring protests under control. This was particularly true, he said, when police broke up a protest in Beijing in April by People's Liberation Army veterans demanding better retirement benefits. Another protest by disgruntled PLA veterans was held last week in Beijing as the army marked its 78th anniversary, witnesses said, and police intervened to break it up by hauling away a number of demonstrators.
Razziaen i Guangxi-provinsen (En provins i SV-Kina beboet af Chuang-folket, der er tættere på thai´erne end kineserne) bliver beskrevet således af Reuters, via Yahoo News:
About 800 policemen clashed with armed villagers during a pre-dawn raid in southern China and arrested 47 people after residents defied a crackdown on illegal mining and went on a rampage, a local paper and officials said.
Police raided four villages in Hezhou in Guangxi province on Thursday and seized firearms, ammunition, explosives, detonators and machetes, said the Legal Express, which is published by the Guangxi branch of the Communist Party.
The newspaper's Friday edition did not say if any policemen or villagers were injured in the three-hour raid in which police "fought bravely." ..
Disgruntled villagers had gone on a "beating, smashing and looting" rampage in June, it said, without elaborating. Officials declined to provide details of last month's turbulence.
Wielding clubs and shields, policemen took 42 men and five women into custody on Thursday, a propaganda official said.
"They're suspected of violently resisting the law in the June 24 incident," the official surnamed Li told Reuters. ..
Land disputes, corruption, abuse of power and a widening gap between the rich and the poor were among the reasons leading to the number of protests shooting up to 74,000 last year from just 10,000 in 1994, a Hong Kong newspaper reported last month.
The number of people involved in those demonstrations jumped to 3.76 million in 2004 from 730,000 a decade earlier, the Beijing-funded Ta Kung Pao quoted Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang as telling parliament's top advisory body. ..
In June, some 300 toughs with rifles, clubs and sharpened pipes descended on Shengyou village in the northern province of Hebei and clashed with farmers, who were angry over a lack of compensation and staged a sit-in on land slated for a new lime plant, in one of the bloodiest in a wave of rural unrest.
Six villagers were killed and scores injured in the clash, which highlighted growing disputes over land rights in China, where rapid development is encroaching on rural property and where the government places an overriding emphasis on the need for social stability.
Samtidig var der også oprør i Indre Mongoli (en nord-kinesisk provins). The Guardian via Taipei Times:
More than 1,000 villagers in Inner Mongolia took the local Communist Party chief hostage Thursday in the latest land dispute to rock the Chinese countryside.
Amid signs of division in the government about how to handle rural unrest, the residents of Qianjin village have also driven off hundreds of armed police and blocked construction of a motorway they claim is being built through their crops and homes without adequate compensation.
"About 2,000 protesters have surrounded the local government office," a resident, who declined to give her name, told the reporters by telephone. "They are holding the general secretary and another official." ..
In protest, they halted the work by occupying the building site and seizing construction equipment. Last week, they repelled more than 100 police who had been sent in to empty the site and arrest the ringleaders in a six-hour clash.
"The entire village is in a state of anarchy," Han Guowu, the district chief, told reporters. "Please trust the party and the government," he said. But such pleas are falling on deaf ears as more and more Chinese peasants take matters into their own hands.
The protest in Qianjin is at least the third since April in which locals have fought, and -- at least temporarily -- beaten public security forces.
In June, six peasants were killed in Shengyou, Hebei Province, during a battle with thugs employed by a power company to force them off their land. The government recognized the validity of their dispute, sacked the mayor and promised the villagers that they could keep their property.
Two months earlier, the residents of Huankantou, in Zhejiang Province, fought off more than 1,000 riot police during a protest over a chemical plant.
Det er stadig småting i et land som Kina, men det eskalerer.
Henrik
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