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Up to 10,000 students riot in China
(Filed: 20/06/2006) Thousands of students at a university in central China have ransacked their campus in a riot sparked by anger over their treatment by school management. | |  | | Chinese riot police |
The unrest in Zhengzhou, the capital of the central province of Henan, began last Thursday night. Between 5,000 and 10,000 students began smashing windows in protest that their diplomas would not come from Zhengzhou University but from a less prestigious college affiliated with the university. The students vandalised an on-campus bank branch, dormitories and cars and witnesses said some participants flooding buildings, before spilling into the street where they smashed shop windows and street lamps. A report in Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper said during the rioting students shouted:"Give us back our Zhengzhou University diplomas!". About 100 riot police have been called in to seal off the campus and cut off internet access to prevent word of the riot spreading. Dissent of any kind is highly sensitive in China, whose Communist government prizes stability. Police have not commented on the riot. The violence abated over the weekend but students have pledged they would continue to boycott classes and refuse to sit exams until the dispute was resolved.
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