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Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob
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| posted by Juno Watt 21 days ago |
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Here's an email we received from a volunteer teacher from an Ivy League university volunteer programme in Hunan Province (who shall remain unnamed to protect the identities of everyone involved) — a chilling account of an attack on his colleague by an anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou. The matter has been brought to the attention of the US Embassy in Beijing and should serve as a warning to all Caucasian readers, particularly those living in second-tier cities, to avoid large crowd gatherings at all costs during these crazy, crazy times. Our foreign correspondent friends in Shanghai and Beijing have been receiving death threats on their mobile phones and through their faxes, but clearly, this is something else:
Last night [Editor's note: Sunday, Apr 20] around 7pm my friend was attacked by a mob of about 150 people outside the Carrefour in Zhuzhou, Hunan (near his placement site). When leaving Carrefour some of the crowd started shouting at him and he tried to say he didn't have anything to do with the Olympics, but 3 men started to push him and then he was hit in the back of the head at least 3 times. He started to run, and the mob chased him. He jumped into a cab, but the mob surrounded the car and started shaking and rocking it. The cab driver was shouting at him to get out. Then they started hitting the car. The crowd was shouting "kill him! kill the Frenchman." He called the Field Director while in the back of the car. The cab driver abandon the car when he saw police coming. Two police made there way though the mob and managed to drive the cab away. The Field Director alerted [a certain public official]. The police got him another cab and he took it from Zhuzhou to the field director's home in Changsha. He spending the night here in Changsha and is likely leaving China as soon as possible.
My colleague is only 22, an American (not French), and a volunteer teacher. He graduated from [university] less than 10 months ago. If he can be attacked anyone can be. The situation in central china is becoming much worse very quickly. He has been cut up pretty badly by the glass and the people trying to grab him.
I didn't think the situation and protests were anything to worry about before now, but if the mob had gotten him outside of the cab he could have easily been killed.
Foreigners need to be more aware that this is a real danger and MUCH more careful around the protests here in central china.
from http://shanghaiist.com/2008/04/22/attack_on_an_american_volunteer.php
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| posted by HKBloke 21 days ago |
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I always find Carrefour a bit overpriced don't you ?
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| posted by AKA 21 days ago |
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I bet he regrets wearing that blue and white horizontally striped shirt, those loafers and then buying those onions and wearing them around his neck whilst smoking a Gauloise
Talkin' sh1te, 24/7
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| posted by geraldo 21 days ago |
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great, that's a defo trip to hangzhou carrefour on Friday afternoon then.
travel insurance: check!
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| posted by HKBloke 21 days ago |
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sorry, just wanted to check - are we supposed to feel sorry for him because he was American or because he was shopping at a French supermarket ?
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| posted by Load Toad 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) |
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UPDATE: The volunteer teacher who informed us of the above incident has just sent us another email, clarifying that the email he originally sent us was written at 3am, only a few hours after the incident happened, and thus "factually inaccurate in many ways". Here's more:
One i know of is the line "The situation in central china is becoming much worse very quickly. He has been cut up pretty badly by the glass and the people trying to grab him."
i did not see his injuries myself and it was only from a secondary source and while his hands were cut and bruised, it does not seem nearly as bad as my email to the consul indicated. regardless the situation is still important.
My concern is that the factual accuracies may reflect poorly on the validity of the event itself, and i should have spoken more generally, as is the tone of the description in the later official bulletin.
We think the whole incident is no less shocking, and our original word of caution to readers still stands: Stay away from large crowd gatherings.
Update off Shanghaiist web site.
Down with Olympics, Down with Tibet, Down with Big Supermarket, Down with Croissants! Long Live Glorious People of Public House!
The Monkees were better than The Beatles.
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| posted by HKBloke 21 days ago |
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'Stay away from large crowd gatherings' - what, the Olympics ?
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| posted by AKA 21 days ago |
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A set of traffic lights at red
Talkin' sh1te, 24/7
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 21 days ago |
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I'll look out for this and other incidents on the CCTV news tonight. Oh.
Watchu talkin' about Willis?
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| posted by bus aunty 21 days ago |
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Update on the situation.
This is from C*NNNNNNT and much more factually correct now our fact checker has
come off the meth and has been bailed by the old bill.
I have also graduated from Oxford and w*nked Tony Blair so take whatever I say as gospel.
The mob was very angry. And very very scary. They refused to move on until the light turned green.
Over and out, C*NNNNNNNNT Correspondent (I swear the meth has totally left my body
so I am not seeing things, and I dont think the sex toy stuck up my arse is affecting my
judgement in any way).....Or the fact that I have news deadlines and hours of air time to fill with sensationalist drivel.
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) |
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I think YOU need to stay away from the crystal methamphetamine aunty. Not a word you say makes sense.
Watchu talkin' about Willis?
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| posted by bus aunty 21 days ago |
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Originally posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant
I think YOU need to stay away from the crystal methamphetamine aunty. Not a word you say makes sense.
....Never let truth/facts get in the way of a good story.
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| posted by Juno Watt 21 days ago |
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I posted the story out of interest in how a mob mentality grows and takes on its own momentum... actually I'm really enjoying the situation the Chinese government is in. They've been boxed into a corner by encouraging nationalism for so long. They can't negotiate with outsiders like the Dalai Lama without appearing weak in their citizens' eyes, and yet they also can't tolerate demonstrations and mobs for fear they will turn in unexpected directions (like in 1989). Down with the CCP! 
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| posted by Gimpmask 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) |
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Originally posted by AKA
I bet he regrets wearing that blue and white horizontally striped shirt, those loafers and then buying those onions and wearing them around his neck whilst smoking a Gauloise
Lest we forget the beret and ze curly tache.
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| posted by The Dogs Bollocks 20 days ago |
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Originally posted by Gimpmask
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Originally posted by AKA
I bet he regrets wearing that blue and white horizontally striped shirt, those loafers and then buying those onions and wearing them around his neck whilst smoking a Gauloise
Lest we forget the beret and ze curly tache.
And the girlfriend with extremely hairy armpits.
One country, no f*cking system.
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| posted by Bucky 20 days ago |
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Another Boxer rebellion?
Finally something I can tell the grandkids about?
"I was just a thousand kilometres away, but technically still in the same country as they attacked supermarket patrons!"
"If I had a horse, I'd horsewhip you."
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| posted by Juno Watt 20 days ago |
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Hey Bucky, how's Cap?
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| posted by Randy_Clapp 20 days ago |
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Originally posted by Juno Watt
I posted the story out of interest in how a mob mentality grows and takes on its own momentum... actually I'm really enjoying the situation the Chinese government is in. They've been boxed into a corner by encouraging nationalism for so long. They can't negotiate with outsiders like the Dalai Lama without appearing weak in their citizens' eyes, and yet they also can't tolerate demonstrations and mobs for fear they will turn in unexpected directions (like in 1989). Down with the CCP!
Those are the very same reasons why I've been watching this whole ordeal play out with a great deal of amusement. It's interesting to watch the CCP tap-dance.
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| posted by puyi 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) |
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oh well look on the bright side china can annoy england about northern ireland in 4 years time...................
darren rudd is a sinophile
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| posted by bus aunty 20 days ago |
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Originally posted by Randy_Clapp
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Originally posted by Juno Watt
I posted the story out of interest in how a mob mentality grows and takes on its own momentum... actually I'm really enjoying the situation the Chinese government is in. They've been boxed into a corner by encouraging nationalism for so long. They can't negotiate with outsiders like the Dalai Lama without appearing weak in their citizens' eyes, and yet they also can't tolerate demonstrations and mobs for fear they will turn in unexpected directions (like in 1989). Down with the CCP!
Those are the very same reasons why I've been watching this whole ordeal play out with a great deal of amusement. It's interesting to watch the CCP tap-dance.
It's also amusing to see how many of the same 1989 protesters and democratic members who fecked off overseas are now trying to go back to their great motherland.....ho ho ho ho.
Dying to get out now dying to get back in. Make up your minds.
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