Police Crack Down On Mass Suicide Protest In Eastern China

[DeSwiss]

Run time: 02:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HBxk7n2XkY   Posted on YouTube: August 08, 2011 By YouTube Member: NTDTV Views on YouTube: 52   Posted on DU: August 08, 2011 By DU Member: DeSwiss Views on DU: 1205

 
Over the weekend, a city in China's Jiangxi province witnessed an unusual and desperate protest. Hundreds of people gathered on a bridge threatening mass suicide. They were protesting corruption by a local judge.

Nanchang Bridge, Jiangxi province, August 4th. A crowd of five hundred people gathers, threatening to kill themselves by jumping off. They're mostly farm workers and their family members, protesting alleged corruption.

The protestors accuse appeals court vice director Guo Bing and others of accepting more than 93 million US dollars worth of bribes from a construction company. They say the company owes 200-plus workers five years of unpaid wages. And when they brought a lawsuit against the company, Guo threw it out after allegedly accepting bribes.

Workers are also protesting the detention of a journalist who investigated the scandal. Xiong Ximao was imprisoned for a year and three months after exposing the scandal on the internet in 2007.

Mass protests are common in China and their frequency is increasing. In 1993 there were fewer than 900 incidents recorded. By 2006 that number had reached 90,000 and is still rising.

[indurancevile]

1. kr.

[LiberalLoner]

2. How do the police crackdown on suicides?

Threaten to hang anyone who successfully has committed suicide? :shrug:

[pennylane100]

3. They certainnly must be ver desperate.

They should at least threaten to take the corrupt judge with them.

[pam4water]

4. K&R

[grahamhgreen]

5. Free trade is neither.