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The Weng'an Mass Incident

A collection of information about the death of a 15-year-old female student and the ensuing mass riot at government buildings in Weng'an county, Guizhou province. ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Tue, Jul 01 2008

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01 Jul 08 visit Riot in Weng'an County, Guizhou Province  »  Shanghaiist Several thousand rioters have gathered in Guizhou's Weng'an County, torched a police station, ransacked government buildings and overturned police cars, after allegations of a cover-up over a 15 year old girl's death blew up. Ming Pao reports the son of...
01 Jul 08 visit More on the Weng'an, Guizhou riots  »  Shanghaiist As usual, Roland Soong of EastSouthWestNorth is on top of the incident, busy piecing together all the information he can find. He informs us that Weng'an is now a sensitive word, the uncle of the female student is still alive, and the body of the student...
02 Jul 08 visit Weng'an: The aftermath  »  Shanghaiist While yet more versions of the Weng'an, Guizhou riot have surfaced on the internet, the Guizhou provincial government has also finally given its version — which, believe it or not, has sparked off a new pop phrase on the Chinese internet — "I'm here t...
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03 Jul 07 visit SW County Calm After Mass Incident  »  china.org.cn The situation in Youyang, an ethnic county in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, is now calm following a mass incident in reaction to the death of a middle school student, a local source said on Tuesday.

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