Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, setting fire to cars, looting a supermarket and wounding six police officers, a local shopkeeper and domestic press said on Wednesday.
The violence in the eastern city of Chizhou was the latest in a series of protests which the Communist Party fears could spin out of control, become a channel for anger over a growing gap between rich and poor and threaten its monopoly on power.
The official Xinhua news agency blamed Sunday’s riot in Chizhou in dirt-poor Anhui province on a few criminals who led the “unwitting masses” astray.
CDT EBOOKS
Subscribe to CDT
SUPPORT CDT
Giving Assistant
Anti-censorship Tools
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
