The 2008 Weng'an riot was a riot on June 28, 2008 involving tens of thousands of residents in Weng'an County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the Guizhou province of Southwest China. Rioters smashed government buildings and torched several police cars to protest against an alleged police cover-up of a girl's death.
A 16 year-old local girl by the name of Li Shufen (李树芬, born in July 1991) was found dead in a river. She had been e...
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The 2008 Weng'an riot was a riot on June 28, 2008 involving tens of thousands of residents in Weng'an County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the Guizhou province of Southwest China. Rioters smashed government buildings and torched several police cars to protest against an alleged police cover-up of a girl's death.
A 16 year-old local girl by the name of Li Shufen (李树芬, born in July 1991) was found dead in a river. She had been earlier being spotted with two younger men who allegedly had familial ties with the local public security bureau. Li Shufen's family and friends have said that she was raped and murdered by the son of a prominent Weng'an official and another youth and that her corpse was then thrown into the river.
The subsequent media release denied the claims, and states the two young men and one young woman involved are of local farmers' families.
The parents were guarding the girl's coffin day and night in fear the local police might attempt to tamper with...
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