Reuters – Nov 26, 2022
Protests have broken out in China’s far western Xinjiang region, with crowds shouting at hazmat-suited guards after a deadly fire triggered anger over their prolonged Covid-19 lockdown as nationwide infections set another record.
Crowds chanted “End the lockdown,” pumping their fists in the air as they walked down a street, according to videos circulated on Chinese social media on Friday night. Reuters verified the footage was published from the Xinjiang capital, Urumqi.
Videos showed people in a plaza singing China’s national anthem with its lyric “Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves” while others shouted that they wanted to be released from lockdowns.
China has put the vast Xinjiang region under some of the country’s longest lockdowns, with many of Urumqi’s 4 million residents barred from leaving their homes for 100 days. The city reported about 100 new cases in each of the past two days.
Xinjiang is home to 10 million Uyghurs. Rights groups and western governments have long accused Beijing of abuses against the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, including forced labour in internment camps. China strongly rejects such claims.
The Urumqi protests followed a fire in a high-rise building that killed 10 on Thursday night.
Authorities have said the building’s residents had been able to go downstairs, but videos of emergency crews’ efforts, shared on Chinese social media, led many internet users to surmise that residents could not escape in time because the building was partially locked down.
Urumqi officials abruptly held a news conference in the early hours of Saturday, denying that Covid measures had hampered escape and rescue but saying they would investigate further. One said residents could have escaped faster if they had better understood fire safety.
Dali Yang, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, said such a “blame the victim” attitude would make people angrier. “Public trust will just sink lower,” he said.
It is (((China))) that is behind all this pandemonium.
It pays ( entraps, blackmail) our politicians and has taken control of the international agencies to do its bidding in order to cast the entire world into its insectoid communist utopia.
Chinese people are gentle and peaceful in nature. They historically went as far as enclose themselves IN behind their Great Wall., against the uncivilized abroad. It took a great deal for themselves to rise against the wimpy British during the ‘boxer rebellion’ but these people are under the Menshevic yoke and for that we have to assist them just like how the unarmed Sudanese people did by throttling the neck of Gordon, the Lion of Taiping. We should do the same to the CCP to free the Orient, our Congress, the international agencies and a whole lot more.
And ensure we build another wall around their polluted country to ensure they stay in.
These people lead the way with mask compliance. the west has been brainwashed into thinking they’re so smart that anything they do, the west follows. What a mistake that was. The truth is, they are not smart. They are far too reliant upon authority for the western intellect. We are the ones who think out of the box, with the ability make quick decisions, who question authority. That is how we have always been until the one’s from the orient came to be teacher’s pet.
“Many of Urumqi’s 4 million residents barred from leaving their homes for 100 days.” … Why not necessarily a “prison”, it is still imprisonment, and an unacceptable way to treat citizens. Politicians, bureaucrats, and other predator class scum should be dragged through the streets, beaten to pulps, and publicly executed for such a betrayal.
I was just at the grocery store and saw two millennial dimwits with diapers strapped to their faces. You see the odd (and I mean odd in more ways than one) face-diaper wearing imbecile once in a while where I am, but the face diapers were short-lived here even during the height of the hysteria of the covid-1984 war on humanity. When I saw those two deranged morons today I was curious about their particular psychosis, then I saw a Virginia license plate on their vehicle outside and their conditioned stupidity became a bit more clear to me – they weren’t from here, they slithered hundreds of miles away from their home close to the treasonous federal shit-hole of DC.