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Chinese riots enter third day
Police vehicles set on fire during Guangdong clashes which began after fracas between security officers and vendor
Tania Branigan in Beijing and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 June 2011 13.07 BST
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The clashes, which began on Friday after a fracas between security officers and a pregnant street vendor in Xintang, Guangdong province, highlight Chinese authorities' struggle to control social frustrations. It is thought that most protesters were migrant workers like the vendor.
Last week hundreds of migrant workers clashed with police in Chaozhou, also in Guangdong, following a dispute over unpaid wages. In Lichuan, Hubei, as many as 2,000 protesters attacked government headquarters last Thursday after a local politician who had complained about official corruption died in police custody.
Inner Mongolia recently saw its biggest street protests for 20 years, over the killing of a Mongolian herder who sought to halt coal trucks trespassing on grasslands.
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Unrest is thought to have become increasingly frequent, although data is hard to come by. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has estimated that there were more than 90,000 mass incidents in 2006, with further increases in the following two years.
China has increased its domestic security budget by 13.8% this year, to 624.4bn yuan (?59bn).
Police in Guangdong said on Sunday they had arrested 25 people after violence broke out on Friday night following a row between chengguan ? low-level law enforcement officers ? and a pregnant vendor during a crackdown on street stalls.
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Chinese riots enter third day
Police vehicles set on fire during Guangdong clashes which began after fracas between security officers and vendor
Tania Branigan in Beijing and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Monday 13 June 2011 13.07 BST
snip
The clashes, which began on Friday after a fracas between security officers and a pregnant street vendor in Xintang, Guangdong province, highlight Chinese authorities' struggle to control social frustrations. It is thought that most protesters were migrant workers like the vendor.
Last week hundreds of migrant workers clashed with police in Chaozhou, also in Guangdong, following a dispute over unpaid wages. In Lichuan, Hubei, as many as 2,000 protesters attacked government headquarters last Thursday after a local politician who had complained about official corruption died in police custody.
Inner Mongolia recently saw its biggest street protests for 20 years, over the killing of a Mongolian herder who sought to halt coal trucks trespassing on grasslands.
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Unrest is thought to have become increasingly frequent, although data is hard to come by. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has estimated that there were more than 90,000 mass incidents in 2006, with further increases in the following two years.
China has increased its domestic security budget by 13.8% this year, to 624.4bn yuan (?59bn).
Police in Guangdong said on Sunday they had arrested 25 people after violence broke out on Friday night following a row between chengguan ? low-level law enforcement officers ? and a pregnant vendor during a crackdown on street stalls.
more..
