{"id":52593,"date":"2016-01-01T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=52593 "},"modified":"2016-01-01T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:57:00","slug":"52593-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=52593","title":{"rendered":"Schoolgirl\\’s Death Sparks Riots, Clashes in China\\’s Gansu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters gather outside the Huadong Supermarket in Yongchang, Gansu, Dec. 30, 2015.<\/div>
Photo courtesy of an RFA listener<\/div>
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Authorities in the far western Chinese province of Gansu on Thursday moved to calm public anger after clashes surrounding the apparent suicide of a young girl who was accused of shoplifting by a well-connected business owner, local sources said.<\/div>
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The girl, a 13-year-old resident of Gansu’s Yongchang county, is believed to have jumped from the top of a tall building on Monday after being accused of shoplifting by staff at the Huadong Supermarket in Yongchang’s county town, local residents told RFA.<\/div>
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The incident drew a crowd of around 1,000 local people who protested outside the supermarket, overturning police cars and beating up Jinchang’s mayor Zhang Yinghua, according to social media posts quoted by the state-run Xinhua news agency.<\/div>
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Armed police were dispatched to disperse the crowd, sparking clashes with local people, eyewitnesses told RFA.<\/div>
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“When they saw military vehicles driving to the scene, the people assembled there got angry, and a group of them stood in front of one vehicle, blocking its path,” a local business owner surnamed Song said.<\/div>
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He said the crowd had begun gathering outside the supermarket on Tuesday, and swelled again to its peak of several thousand on Wednesday after being dispersed the day before.<\/div>
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‘Worked up’<\/div>
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The municipal authorities had dispatched some 1,000 riot police to the scene, prompting protesters to throw things at them, attack them, and overturn their vehicles.<\/div>
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“There was fighting, and some people overturned police vehicles, because the crowd was really very angry,” Song said. “It was total mayhem.”<\/div>
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A protester told RFA on Wednesday: “There were about 1,000 people there, and all of them were very worked up, as they would be when a person has died.”<\/div>
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“It was a schoolgirl who lived in our residential compound.”<\/div>
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An employee of Song’s who gave only his nickname A Cai said at least 10 people had been detained.<\/div>
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“They detained around a dozen people … and [the crowd] pretty much smashed up all of the police vehicles,” A Cai said. “I saw 10 or more vehicles with broken glass.”<\/div>
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Repeated calls to the Huadong Supermarket and the county government propaganda bureau rang unanswered during office hours on Thursday.<\/div>
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An officer who answered the phone at the county police department on Wednesday declined to comment. “I don’t know about this,” the officer said.<\/div>
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Family silenced<\/div>
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A source close to the girl’s family said county government officials visited the family on Tuesday to begin “ideological work,” and that the girl’s relatives are now incommunicado.<\/div>
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“They family had demanded an explanation, and wanted to pursue whoever was responsible, so they sent in a team,” the source said.<\/div>
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“The officials are all closing ranks and protecting each other now, and there’s no way you can win against them. The person who did this has connections.”<\/div>
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Many local residents said they had heard about the mayor’s beating at the hands of protesters, but that they hadn’t witnessed it first-hand.<\/div>
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“The mayor came out to talk to them at one of the intersections, where a lot of people were gathered,” a resident surnamed Zhang said.<\/div>
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“I heard that the police started beating people first, because the crowd refused to leave.”<\/div>
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