China: A Large Riot Broke Out In Anhui Province
Daily China/Epoch times ^ | 06/28/05
Central News
In the afternoon of June 26, 2005, a large riot broke out in Chi-zhou, Anhui Province, China, in which about 10,000 people attacked a police substation and set fire on police vehicles.
However, crowds at the scene disagreed with the Chinese media report, and explained the situation as follows:
"At 2 pm, Liu Liang, a middle school pupil was a riding a bicycle, and it happened to graze a car which the owner of Ren-he Clinic, a private hospital, is riding, resulting in a scratch. The argument from both sides ensued. Then, men riding with the clinic's owner, came out of the car and started to slash him (with their knives.)
A passerby on a motor cycle saw this, got off, and tried to stop the fight, but was also swept into the melee. The owner was shouting from the side, "If you kill one of them, I will pay 300,000 yuan.
The police came not long after the incident, but they did not handle it fairly, which provoke people's anger. The situation started to deteriorate, and angry citizens set fire on the clinic owner's car and a police car near the entrance of police substation. Two police vehicles were destroyed at the scene."
However, Chi-zhou Daily, a local paper, reported on June 26th edition, 'A small number of lawbreakers incited innocent passersby to beat policemen, attack the police substation, destroy police vehicles, and loot the nearby supermarket."
It was revealed that the Public Security Agency in Anhui Province brought in additional reinforcement of 700 policemen, arrested many citizens, and the middle school pupil, Liu Liang, is being treated at a hospital now.
For now, Internet bulletin board in Chi-zhou City has been shut down, but on other Internet discussion forums, heated debates on this incident ensued.
Chinese posters are asking, "Why are crowds always painted as law-breaking and being a mob?", or commenting, "It is not crowds but the government who do not know what is going on ," or "Tyranny creates a violent mob."
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