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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (57641)	12/27/2004 2:05:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The riot happened in DongGuan city, one of the two major locations concentrated by thousands of sweatshops and poor/highly exploited cheap labors from other provinces. The local officials are bunch of jerks too. They wear the same pair of pants with those sweatshop owners and openly discriminate workers from other provinces, without whom there would be no prosperity of Guangdong in the last 2 decades. So there is no surprise for the riot. Although I do not have the stats on my hand, I would say at least 30%, maybe higher, of all the riots in China happened in Guangdong. Those local corrupted officials had better understand that their own "livelihood" depends on properly dealing with this sort of conflict. They can put a couple of leaders of riot in jail for a couple of times, but there will be a limit for what oppressed workers can take. Especially considering China has a tradition of revolution. Wonder why so many people showed up in Chairman Mao's Memorial Hall on 12.26, his birth day?