appeared to roil in a number of cities Saturday night, in displays of public defiance fanned by anger over a deadly fire in the western Xinjiang region.
The protest stemmed from a fire in an apartment building in Xinjiang’s capital city Urumqi killed 10.During Xinjiang’s lockdown, some residents elsewhere in the city have had their doors chained physically shut, including one who spoke to The Associated Press who declined to be named for fear of retribution. Many in Urumqi believe such brute-force tactics may have prevented residents from escaping in Thursday’s fire and that the official death toll was an undercount.
Videos of protests featured people holding the Chinese flag and shouting “Open up, open up.” They spread rapidly on Chinese social media despite heavy censorship. In some scenes, people shouted and pushed against rows of men in the white whole-body hazmat suits that local government workers and pandemic-prevention volunteers wear, according to the videos.
“Han Chinese people know they will not be punished if they speak against the lockdown,” she said, declining to be named for fear of retaliation against her family. “Uyghurs are different. If we dare say such things, we will be taken to prison or to the camps.” Social media users greeted the news with disbelief and sarcasm. “Only China can achieve this speed,” wrote one user on Weibo.
The downfall of the Communist Chinese government will come in the summer of 2023 and it will come from within.
“Anti-COVID” not a very good description of the protesters
Are a lot of people still dying of Covid in China?
So do our politicos stand with democracy and the people, or do they stand with the authoritarian “science”
People are tired of lockdown’s
this sounds eerily similar to Dec ‘19
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