May 22, 2007
ON NOT GOING GENTLY:
Chinese villagers riot over 'one-child' policy (Jonathan Watts, May 21, 2007, Guardian Unlimited)
Thousands of villagers in south-west China have attacked family planning officials, overturned cars and set fire to government buildings in a riot sparked by the state's "one-child" policy.Riot police have been dispatched to at least four townships in the Guanxi autonomous region after a weekend of disturbances that led to multiple injuries and unconfirmed reports of two fatalities, witnesses and Hong Kong media reported today.
The unrest comes in the wake of a new crackdown by the Bobai county government against families that break birth control regulations. Financial penalties have increased and parents who fail to pay are being punished by having their property confiscated or destroyed.
At the height of the demonstrations on Saturday, a crowd of several thousand stormed the Shapi municipal office, pulled down a wall and chased and beat officials from the family planning department.
Europeans would riot if you asked them to have two. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 22, 2007 10:35 AM
The Euro pols sure must be getting better bribes from the Arabs than from the Chinese, cuz substituting hard-working Chinese in place of rioting yutes is an immigration policy even a Eurocrat could understand.