General situation of "6 28" incident in Weng 'an County, Guizhou Province

After drowning in the early morning of the 22nd, there were some "gossip" circulating in Chun 'an County: At first, Wang was said to be the niece of the county party secretary, and because he didn't copy the examination paper to Wang during the senior high school entrance examination, Wang found two social youths to retaliate; Later, he said that the murderer was released by the public security organs, because one of them was the son of a deputy magistrate in the county, and Uncle Li Shufen was beaten by a man named the underworld. Finally, when Li Shufen's body was salvaged, he was naked. Some of these rumors are true. For example, the academic performance in the class is very good, while Wang's academic performance is very poor. After Li Shufen died, his uncle was beaten by unknown people in the street, which really happened. However, Wang's niece asked for a copy of the test paper, but she was naked when she was salvaged. This is totally untrue. These facts mixed with rumors aroused many people's sympathy for the dead. At this point, the public security bureau once again issued a "reminder notice" to the families of the deceased.

On the afternoon of June 28th, 2008, the onlookers at Dayan Qiaotou bought a piece of white cloth, signed it on the spot and made it into a banner, so that two students could hold it in front of them and set out from Ximenhe to petition the county government. According to Zhang Shaohua (a pseudonym), a junior high school student in Weng 'an No.3 Middle School who went to the riverside to watch the excitement at that time and later took part in the parade with a banner, there were only a dozen students at the scene when the parade started. Along the way, there are more and more people. The parade started from Ximenhe in Weng 'an County, passed Wenfeng Avenue on Huancheng Road to the entrance of Weng 'an No.3 Middle School, and then went to the county government. Qixing Village is a village where reservoir immigrants live in concentration on the edge of Weng 'an County. When the parade set out, some immigrants followed. According to people present at the time, someone joined the parade along the way. When passing through Weng 'an No.3 Middle School where Li Shufen is located, more students joined in, and the scale of the parade exceeded 200. In addition, after the news of the parade spread, some landless farmers and citizens who had suffered losses in the land acquisition and urban demolition of Weng 'an county government followed them to the county government. When the procession finally reached the county government, it had reached the scale of thousands of people.

It was Saturday, and no one in the county government went to work. After expressing their demands in front of the county government, the petitioners went to the public security bureau building about 100 meters away from the county government. By about 16: 30, when the police of the county public security bureau clashed with the petitioners, there were already tens of thousands of onlookers.

According to the people present at that time, on June 28th, 2008, it was known to everyone in the county. I heard someone was complaining. Many people think that the family of the deceased really took Li Shufen's body to the Public Security Bureau and gathered in front of it to watch. Most of them still want to go sightseeing.

On the afternoon before the incident 14: 50, Qin Wang, secretary of the county party committee, and Song Hui, director of the county government office, were attending a teleconference on "Handling the Accumulated Cases of Letters and Calls in China" at the county telecommunications bureau.

At about 16, the parade started from the Dayan Bridge where Li Shufen died. Chen, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of Yuhua Township and director of the police station, immediately reported the situation to Xiao Song and others.

16: 30, report to Xiao Song, Luo and Shen respectively. After receiving the report, Xiao Song immediately reported to Qin Wang at the venue and rushed to the scene according to Qin Wang's arrangement. Qin Wang continued to attend the meeting.

During this period, after receiving a phone call from the duty officer of the county government, Song Hui left the venue and rushed to the county government building to persuade the students to leave, and reported to the county magistrate Wang Haiping by phone at around 16: 40.

Song led Huang Yaping and others to drive to the county public security bureau and reported to the king of Qin that there were many young people at the scene. Qin Wang immediately called Zhang Shide, director of the county education bureau, and asked him to inform the principals of all schools to take the teachers to the scene to persuade the students to disperse. Zhang Shide, who received the instruction, immediately informed the principals of all schools in the city and arranged for teachers to evacuate students at the scene. But at this time, more and more people gathered to watch, the warning line has begun to be impacted, and some people rushed into the first floor to start looting. At this point, Xiao Song reported the situation to the King of Qin and went upstairs to hold a meeting to study countermeasures.

/kloc-around 0/7: 50, Qin Wang received a report from Xiao Song again after the video conference, and arranged for the staff to inform the leaders of four teams in the county to discuss countermeasures at the telecommunications bureau.

18: 20, the county magistrate Wang Haiping arrived at the temporary headquarters of Weng 'an Telecommunications Bureau from Duyun. Luo also rushed to Weng 'an from Duyun and organized the peripheral police force to concentrate on the county armed police squadron. He can't carry out his work because there is no anti-riot equipment. Later, I received instructions from the person in charge of the State Public Security Bureau, requesting the unified command of the state. After Shen rushed back to Weng 'an, he asked all police officers to put on police uniforms. After police officers under the age of 35 put on riot gear, they accepted the unified command of the state.

18: 30, the staff of the telecommunication bureau were worried about being besieged, and the temporary headquarters moved to the county armed forces department far from the scene.

/kloc-at about 0: 00, the person in charge of Qiannan Public Security Bureau rushed to the scene and turned around without taking measures.

At about 20 o'clock, the crowd "can't wait for the leader to speak" was transferred to the county government. At the same time, the Qiannan State Committee organized a special meeting to deal with the Weng 'an incident. After the meeting, a person in charge of the former State Party Committee rushed to Chun 'an County and "turned around" in the periphery, waiting for the leaders who came from the province.

At about 23: 00, the county building adjacent to the county government building was ignited, and it was completely burned because it was a wooden structure.

According to Zheng Yi, the deputy magistrate of Weng 'an County, who has been sticking to the county government building that night, the Weng 'an county government began to be beaten, smashed, robbed and burned around 20 pm, but there were only a dozen thugs who really rushed into the county government building at that time, and there were basically no students. At that time, more than 200 public security and armed police were on standby. If handled properly, at least the county building will not be burned down. According to the statistics of relevant departments, in the Weng 'an incident, there were more than 300 people directly involved in beating, smashing and looting, and there were more than 20,000 people at the scene. The incident lasted more than seven hours.

In this incident, 160 offices, 42 police cars and other vehicles were burned, and 150 people were injured to varying degrees, resulting in direct economic losses of160,000 yuan.

According to the experts interviewed, the Weng 'an incident is a "specimen event" among mass incidents in China, no matter from the number of participants, duration, intensity of conflicts and the impact at home and abroad.

In the early morning of June 29, 2008, thousands of people continued to watch in front of the county government and the county public security bureau, and even attacked some policemen and armed police on duty with stones. After the incident basically subsided in the afternoon, the relevant person in charge of Weng 'an County Committee called the incident "organized and premeditated" at a press conference jointly held with relevant departments in Qiannan Prefecture. The cause of the incident was that the family members of the deceased were dissatisfied with the appraisal results of the public security department and organized some people to hold banners and March on the streets. Onlookers followed and gathered at the county government to petition. In the process of receiving the relevant person in charge of the county government, some people incited people who did not know the truth to attack the county public security bureau, the county government and the county party Committee building. Subsequently, a few lawless elements took the opportunity to beat, smash and burn.

A senior reporter from the local media in Guizhou said that it was a bit hasty for the local government to make this conclusion without full investigation. The relevant departments are eager to find the "black hand" behind the scenes according to inertial thinking, and it is also difficult to convince people. Subsequently, the local media began to publish and broadcast news such as "Weng 'an people angrily condemn lawless elements" on a large scale, which aroused more people's resentment and suspicion and triggered a wide-ranging debate.