{"id":34172,"date":"2013-05-30T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=34172 "},"modified":"2013-05-30T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:57:00","slug":"34172-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=34172","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Teen Dies Following Row With Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People’s Liberation Army soldiers conduct a combat training session at their base in Sichuan, Sept. 15, 2011.<\/div>
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Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan are probing the death of a teenager who local residents say was beaten to death by several People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers after he went with friends to look for spent bullets at a military camp near his home.<\/div>
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A resident of Jichang village near Sichuan’s Leshan city surnamed He said a group of teenage boys went to the camp to pick up bullets on Wednesday when they were attacked by a group of soldiers stationed there.<\/div>
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“That kid had some kind of problem, because he wouldn’t stop [when they told him to] and didn’t do as he was told,” He said in an interview on Thursday.<\/div>
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“He didn’t die at the time, but a while after they beat him up,” she added. “He died outside, in a water ditch.”<\/div>
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He confirmed an earlier tweet that appeared on the popular Sina Weibo microblogging site, which said that the 18-year-old had quarreled with a group of soldiers after being told to stop picking up bullet casings.<\/div>
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“He was then surrounded and beaten up by more than a dozen soldiers, and all the kids who were at the scene ran away in fright,” the post said.<\/div>
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“Somebody found him after a while, lying on the ground and covered in blood,” it said.<\/div>
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Mass protest<\/div>
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According to He, several hundred residents of Jichang village staged a protest outside the gates of the PLA camp, and outside the government offices for Qianwei county, where the village is located.<\/div>
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“This happened [on Wednesday],” she said. “But it’s been sorted out now.”<\/div>
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He said authorities had agreed to pay compensation to the boy’s family.<\/div>
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An employee who answered the phone at a furniture store near the Qianwei county government offices said he had seen a large group of people arrive outside the building on Wednesday.<\/div>
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“They blocked the government [gates], because they wanted an explanation,” the employee said. “I heard one of the villagers was beaten to death … he was taken to hospital and he died there.”<\/div>
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No official details<\/div>
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An official who answered the phone at the Yujin township government offices, which administers Jichang village, declined to give details of the incident.<\/div>
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“I’m sorry, we haven’t been given an approved statement on this incident yet, because it is still being dealt with,” the official said.<\/div>
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“We will have to discuss this another time,” he said. “I am very busy right now.”<\/div>
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While beatings to death of Chinese citizens—and subsequent mass protests—are frequently reported at the hands of police, hired thugs and urban management officials, incidents involving the PLA are relatively rare.<\/div>
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Earlier this week, Chinese riot police were forced to withdraw after they were overwhelmed in clashes with a large angry crowd protesting the beating of a street vendor by urban management officials, or chengguan, also in Sichuan province.<\/div>
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The clashes occurred late Tuesday after a group of chengguan surrounded and beat up a stallholder in Deyang city’s Wenmiao Square, eyewitnesses said.<\/div>
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Reported by Lin Jing for RFA’s Cantonese service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.<\/div>
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