2008 Weng'an riot

When

28 Jun 2008

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

27.07° N, 107.47° E

Description

riot in China

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Mass civic disobedience in China

The 2008 Weng'an riot was a riot on June 28, 2008, involving tens of thousands of residents in Weng'an County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in Guizhou province in Southwest China. Rioters smashed government buildings and torched several police cars to protest against an alleged police cover-up of a girl's death.

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• Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Mass Mobilization Project v5.1: protests against governments, 1990–2020 (Clark & Regan)David Clark and Patrick Regan · names it “Protest in Weng an, People's Republic of China”Creative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
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