Thousands of students in China have held mass protests against a CCP order to merge colleges with vocational institutions.. The protests have turned violent with the police thrashing the protesters.
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Chinese Police Beat Students to the Point of Bleeding at Protest on Chinese University Campus
Protests come amid CCP plans to force private colleges and vocational colleges to merge
Chinese students clashed with police and security guards on campus grounds at a Chinese university on June 7–8, with some students bleeding after being attacked by authorities.
Undergraduate students at Nanjing Normal University in eastern Jiangsu Province were protesting on campus over concerns that their academic degrees would be devalued after they learned of a plan by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to merge private colleges with vocational colleges.
Wu Hua (a pseudonym), a student from Nanjing Normal University’s privately-owned Zhongbei College, a school of some 10,700 students, told the Chinese-language Epoch Times late on June 8 that “police, assistant police, and security guards started to attack us [students]. They poured water on us, pushed us to the ground, and pulled some of us t
The Straits Times
Chinese police squash rare campus protests after merger plan
Thousands of angry students held a college principal hostage over fears that their degrees were set to be downgraded.PHOTO: SCREENGRAB FROM YOUTUBE
PublishedJun 8, 2021, 6:58 pm SGT
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