Crowd Management

China has admitted to killing villagers of Guangdong province’s Dongzhou village, northeast of Hong Kong, when policeman fired into a crowd of farmers in an attempt to calm the crowd of protestors. These protests are a frequent occurrence in China due to the growing resentment that many farmers feel to the government.

Chinese farmers have for a long time been the lowest rung of society in China, but with the communal farming introduced by the communist leadership, they have had to give up the land that was the only thing that they possessed of any value. Now the government with most of its interest in manufacturing and industry has left the farmers to fend for themselves against corrupt and greedy provincial officials.

This has resulted in many thousands of protests every year, which are always put down with murder, imprisonment, and torture. This time however some outside media picked it up and now the rest of the world is able to see the real PRC government at work.