Thursday, October 17, 2013

Thousands protest in flood-hit Chinese city [That's one way to redress your grievances!]

 

Several held as protesters, angry at allegedly botched response to flooding, hurl bricks at police and attack vehicles.


Al Jazeera 16 Oct 2013

 Residents in Yuyao smashed police vans and blocked a local TV vehicle [Reuters]


Arrests have been made after massive anti-government protests in an eastern Chinese city hit by catastrophic flooding, an official newspaper has said.

Thousands took part in the protest on Tuesday in the Zhejiang province city of Yuyao and an undisclosed number were arrested for "radical acts,'' including pelting police with bricks and turning over government vehicles, the official English-language Global Times reported on Wednesday.

It said residents were angered over an allegedly botched response to the flooding, the worst in decades, and the slow restoration of electricity and other basic services.

The flooding caused by a typhoon earlier this month killed at least six people in Zhejiang, left 11 million people deprived of water and power, and caused $2 billion in damages to homes, business, and infrastructure in Yuyao and nearby Ningbo and Shanghai, the government said.

Such protests, termed "mass incidents'' by the government, occur regularly around China, sparked by everything from traffic accidents to industrial pollution and official abuses of power.


Huge security spending

Public outrage is often exacerbated by perceptions of special treatment for the rich and powerful and by distant and unresponsive autocratic leaders appointed from above by the ruling Communist Party.

The threat of violence has prompted massive outlays for the police and other internal security measures, spending on which now exceeds the defence budget, the world's second largest after that of the United States.

Photos from Yuyao posted to various Chinese websites showed protesters smashing vehicles and attacking city offices. Some were bleeding from the head after apparently being clubbed by riot police who were shown massed in their hundreds in front of the city hall.

City officials on Wednesday either said they had no information or did not answer phones. The protest was ignored by local Chinese-language media and the Yuyao government's official website, which instead was filled with glowing reports on the city's flood response work.

Provincial official Cai Qi called on his microblog for a rational response to the flooding, and said officials had been working all-out to deal with the disaster.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Khmer are different to Chinese. They live in a communist oppression but the people often knows how to response to political situation. Whereas, Khmer are lazy and dumb. Instead of fighting for their rights and freedom, they instead turn into begging, begging for support, begging for money. Even the Khmer police wait in line in the street waiting for the "red pocket money" or sworn in to protect the "rotten egg".

DUMB Khmer

Anonymous said...

THAT WHAT CHINA DID TO CAMBOIA WHAT GO AROUND AND COME AROUND LIKE THAT.IT SOME WAY SOME HOW THE PROBLEM COME BACK TO YOU JUST LIKE THAT EVEN 1,000 MILES AWAY. IF CHINA WON'T STOP KILL KHMER AND DESTROY CAMBODIA IT WILL BACK TO CHINA MORE AND MORE.

Anonymous said...

There were some postings in the months of August-September, something about the ring around the sun? Or signs in the skies. Remember some were hoping that good omens were on the way to Cambodia...? But I commented that bad omens was on their way... Well...

Look like bad omens did manifest itself by ways of typhoon and the flood.

New World Disorder Madness

Anonymous said...

Please all Khmer don't wait on their destiny. Why Hun Sen's regime can oppress you all nearly 28 years. It not means Hun Sen and his boss Viet are strong but youself as Khmer are so passive and are always depends on destiny. If you are all strong and united, Hun Sen is disappear for long time ago, look to the election, his crock families and himself were preparing to run already. But the strategy of CNRP are still weak, with this crock CPP you must strager. You all must to know that 1) CPP are rich and the rich people are nomally afraid of die, 2) CNRP or poor people when you fight, you will not loose sothing but maybe win, the loser is CPP and its clans. 3) On the 23.10.2013, if you do like in 15-17.10.2013, you all will never win. Justice, democracy and freedom will never become what you don't spend your life. You all must know that the CPP won election just under 28% and other belong to CNRP, stand up. What this crock Hun Sen has promise, you can forget it. That is just only the communist tactic only, but if you all want to life freely with communist system again, than please go. But please not tell us, please help with money any more, okay!

Anonymous said...

Don't waste any more time let fuck Hun sen where it'd hurts, Hun manet send his thug to kill opposition people,why don't we get rid of the ring leader whom sent thug to kill us? Hit Hun sen where its hurts most....His loves ones!...


Anonymous said...

That is how economic growth in china look likes, the fat cats of communist officials get all the meats and the Chinese people get the bones. This culture of communist government systems is working the same way in China, North Korea, Cuba , Vietnam and also in Cambodia. Those fat cats need to be destroyed from this world.

Anonymous said...

Khmer should follow Chinese people. Stand up for your self or you will have no future.