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UPDATE: 2 July 2008 20:00 GMT + 1. The public security office building after the riot
Latest - and quite foreeseable - headlines
贵州瓮安事件李树芬第3次尸检：仍为溺水死亡
贵州回应瓮安事件不实传闻 事件相关人根本没有领导亲属
More mainstream news are available on the website of the Guizhou Daily Group
UPDATE: 2 July 2008 13:04 GMT + 1.
More pictures of Weng´an on EastSouthWestNorth and Shanghaiist.
The family petition, plus translations of articles and postings on Blogging for China.
Commentaries on Stupid Pig´s China Blog.
UPDATE: 2 July 2008 09:18 GMT + 1. The official version about the riots
Five days after the riot, the clean-up of blogs and BBS seems to have been completed. Most of the news I found on internet portals were reposted either from Xinhua or from the Guizhou Ribao.
Today the website of the People's Daily published the official version about what happened. According to this article the naive people in Weng'an were used and deceived by criminal networks/criminal forces 黑恶势力and took to the streets without knowing what had happened. Li Shufeng committed suicide, the official version goes. So, there must be other deeper reasons why the Weng'an residents protested.
UPDATE: 1 July 2008 20:37 GMT + 1
The Guizhou Ribao published an interesting article about how the "unlawful elements" 违法犯罪who took part to the riot ultimately caused local businesses to suffer heavy economic losses. ...and how even the mingong "hope that the government will strike at those unlawful elements" 希望政府要严厉打击那些不法分子. At the same time, local public security officials denied any dereliction of duty in their handling of the rape and murder case that caused the riot.
UPDATE: 1 July 2008 8:33 GMT + 1
A Xinhua article published two hours ago reported that Shi Zonghua (party secretary of Guizhou province) acknowledged that the riot was caused by factors as "some social contradictions that have accumulated for a long time, and many controversies, some of which never received the attention they deserve, some of which were not solved in time" (一些社会矛盾长期积累，多种纠纷相互交织，一些没有得到应有的重视，一些没有得到及时有效的解决). But the disorders in Weng'an were attributed also to "members of criminal networks" 黑恶势力人员.
UPDATE: 30 June 2008 21:38 GMT + 1
According to the Lianhe Zaobao, the police arrested more or less 300 rioters on June 29 and 30
Latest - and quite foreeseable - headlines
贵州瓮安事件李树芬第3次尸检：仍为溺水死亡
贵州回应瓮安事件不实传闻 事件相关人根本没有领导亲属
More mainstream news are available on the website of the Guizhou Daily Group
UPDATE: 2 July 2008 13:04 GMT + 1.
More pictures of Weng´an on EastSouthWestNorth and Shanghaiist.
The family petition, plus translations of articles and postings on Blogging for China.
Commentaries on Stupid Pig´s China Blog.
UPDATE: 2 July 2008 09:18 GMT + 1. The official version about the riots
Five days after the riot, the clean-up of blogs and BBS seems to have been completed. Most of the news I found on internet portals were reposted either from Xinhua or from the Guizhou Ribao.
Today the website of the People's Daily published the official version about what happened. According to this article the naive people in Weng'an were used and deceived by criminal networks/criminal forces 黑恶势力and took to the streets without knowing what had happened. Li Shufeng committed suicide, the official version goes. So, there must be other deeper reasons why the Weng'an residents protested.
UPDATE: 1 July 2008 20:37 GMT + 1
The Guizhou Ribao published an interesting article about how the "unlawful elements" 违法犯罪who took part to the riot ultimately caused local businesses to suffer heavy economic losses. ...and how even the mingong "hope that the government will strike at those unlawful elements" 希望政府要严厉打击那些不法分子. At the same time, local public security officials denied any dereliction of duty in their handling of the rape and murder case that caused the riot.
UPDATE: 1 July 2008 8:33 GMT + 1
A Xinhua article published two hours ago reported that Shi Zonghua (party secretary of Guizhou province) acknowledged that the riot was caused by factors as "some social contradictions that have accumulated for a long time, and many controversies, some of which never received the attention they deserve, some of which were not solved in time" (一些社会矛盾长期积累，多种纠纷相互交织，一些没有得到应有的重视，一些没有得到及时有效的解决). But the disorders in Weng'an were attributed also to "members of criminal networks" 黑恶势力人员.
Those who took part to the riot were asked to hand themselves over to the police, and to report other rioters.
UPDATE: 30 June 2008 21:38 GMT + 1
According to the Lianhe Zaobao, the police arrested more or less 300 rioters on June 29 and 30
The mainland media and the riots in Weng'an
- Sina blogs entries about the riot have been deleted. Here´s an instance.
- BBS postings are being cleaned up at the moment of writing. Here´s what shows up if you try to access BBS postings on the Sina website. Here´s Sohu. Here´s the BBS of Shandong University, and also: Zhongqing zaixian, Tianya, Longdou, Yingsha. Postings on some BBS can still be read.
- Discussions about the riot are allowed only on Xinhua´s BBS. Xinhua´s article are being reposted on some blogs, like this one, hosted by Microsoft
- News about the riot were reported by China Peace website only on July 1.
- Pictures and videos of the riot are being deleted. Less than 24 hours ago pictures of the riot were available on Google. Today I runned a search using the same search keys, and couldn´t find anything. Searches run on Baidu yielded no results. Yodao results were much different....
- The riot has now ceased, but on June 28 martial law was declared in the areas surrounding government and police office buildings
- Information about the riot could not be found on the Weng´an government website
Yancheng wanbao - when i tried to read the article I got the following message: 很抱歉，你查看的页面不存在。
Hualongwang (Chongqing):
Dazhongwang: reposted a Xinhua article
Cnet: reposted a Guizhou ribao article.
Caijing baodao.
Jinnan Renmin Guangbo Diantai.
Blogs hosted by the Alibaba website.
Videos
Here's a 30 seconds footage of the riot, and four more snippets I found on youtube.
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