Chongqing's Business Strike Keeps Expanding

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• published: 13 Jun 2012
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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Over one week long mass protest in Chongqing's Wansheng District expanded, becoming a collective business strike. 64tianwang.com, a Human Rights website in China, reported that the business' strike kept expanding locally. On the night of June 10th, local hospitalized protesters hurt in the early clash with the police had all been moved by local authorities, according to the news report. Up to June 11th, nearly all shops in Chongqing's Wansheng District have been closed to protest authorities' crackdown. China 6.4 Tianwang Human Rights Information Center said many more businesses had closed on June 10th. The business strike has spread to the Wansheng Economic & Technological Development Zone, said the report. 64tianwang.com revealed that on the night of June 10th the wounded protesters had all been transferred from local Wansheng District People's Hospital by the officials. Yet so far, the local authorities have not accounted for this issue. On June 11th, Wansheng district's netizens reflected that the local residents will stage a three-day's strike. Their uploaded photos show that a lot of shops are closed, but with more people standing or walking on the streets. Along the sides of the roads, the waiting motor buses are full of policemen. Mr. Wei (Wansheng District resident): "Every day we can see the police patrolling around. There is no negotiation, just cracking down. What's more, troops and police forces are stationed here, about 3,000 soldiers, 70-80 military vehicles to prevent riots. But Wansheng residents' appeals are all reasonable, no riots, no smashing or looting, nothing violent at all." Since Wansheng districts were merged with Qijiang County, several mass protests have broken out in Wansheng. The locals are suffering from economic damage. The local authorities dispatched a large number of riot police and stability preservation guards to the scene. Some residents were injured during the initial stage of protest. Around June 4th, Chongqing's Shuangqiao District residents also took to the streets to protest their district merging. A fierce clash erupted between protesters and the police, hundreds were injured and someone was beaten to death. The local authorities have not come up with positive Solutions to the expanding confrontation. Han Liang (Chongqing's activist): "I heard Shuangqiao District also broke out in a protest. Mass protests keep occurring. The Chinese people are now filled with anger, they hate this dictatorship, hoping that democracy will arrive quickly." Media reported that every day across China several hundreds of mass protests flare up against the regime and corruption. An article authored by Peng Tao asserts that China's social change will come sooner or later. China's "Jasmine Revolution" is expected to happen soon. The article says that if the Communist Party's top-level heads do not initiate political reform to push democratization quickly, more mass protests similar to Wansheng and Shuangqiao will be staged all over China, larger scale and more intensively. 《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/