Social unrest in China

[bulldogg]

24 February, 2006
CHINA
Social protests claim ever more police victims

China’s Public Security Ministry has spoken out against an increase in crime linked to protests, which is 500% more than it was in the eighties. Every day, one policeman is killed and 20 are wounded.

Beijing (AsiaNews/Scmp) – The increase in social protests and a shortage of personnel “are the main cause of the rise in human casualties for Chinese police”. Within 15 years there has been “a dramatic rise in victims” reaching “one death and 20 injured per day”.

This was announced yesterday by China’s Public Security Ministry that said: “From the beginning of the 90s, social conflicts in the country have become more intense” and “at the same time”, problems linked with “shortage of men, the growth of violent crime and inadequate equipment” have become “ever more serious”.

Between 1990 and 2005 – according to official data of the ministry – 6,819 officers died and 120,783 were injured in the line of duty. This is almost a 500% increase over the 1981-1989 figure and more than 600% the total killed between 1949 and 1980.

Fan Jingyu, a deputy director of the ministry's Personnel and Training Bureau, said: “The main problem is the shortage of personnel and the limits which officials impose on themselves regarding shooting to prevent crimes.”

“Chinese police – 1.7 million people - account for 0.12% of the population, while the ratio in developed countries is 0.35%. The result is that each policeman must work at least 20 hours overtime per week”.

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[5.56X45mm]

Well, if the PRC stopped being a communist crap hole and allowed it's people the freedoms that it says they "grant" them. Than maybe, the police over there will not be targeted and attacked.

 

[phoenix80]

It might be expected that the next social unrest in Commie China may come from ordinary peasants who live in extreme poverty and are being oppressed on a daily basis

 

[ASTRALdragon]

Well, I'd cause some unrest too if the government took my farmland that is my livelihood and gave me 3 magic beans for it (I'd at least want 4! ). Plus if I saw the government that my father so willingly devoted his life to the "revolution" 60-some years ago, which promised an equal nation where there is no rich or poor and everyone works the same amount, get richer and richer while my family/friends and I are getting poorer and poorer (massive gap between rich and poor), I'd totally cause some ruckus.