Emeute Hui à 田庄Tian Zhuang (山东 Shandong) – 31 mars 2012

Shandong Village Rocked by Ethnic Clashes

rfa.org

2012-04-05

Villagers in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong said on Thursday that local police « stood by and watched » during ethnic clashes last weekend in which their homes and shops were smashed up and many of them beaten, with an estimated 15 people sent to hospital.

A local official confirmed the rioting, sparked over the weekend by a dispute between local Han Chinese residents and Hui Muslims in Ningjin county, had taken place.

« There was quite a lot of damage, and there is a bit of a situation here, » said the official, who answered the phone at government offices in Ningjin county’s Changguan township. « Right now the [ruling Chinese Communist] Party and the government are working out what to do about it. »

He confirmed that some people had been injured in the violence. « Right now they are all in the hospital, » he said.

Retaliatory attack

Han Chinese residents of Tianzhuang village in Ningjin claimed that over 1,000 Hui Muslims from the neighboring Changguan village had rioted in Tianzhuang on Saturday.

A restaurant owner surnamed Tian in Tianzhuang said « more than 100 » police officers stood by and watched as local people were attacked.

« The police said they hadn’t had any orders, and so they couldn’t do anything, » he said. « They just stood to one side … and watched us get beaten, » he said. Read more…

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