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19 injured October 16, 2013 China Chengguan Officers Hospitalized After Acid Attack The Beijing Times reported 19 chengguan officers were attacked with sulfuric acid, and most were hospitalized with burn injuries on their faces, backs, necks and arms. The chengguan who do not have full police powers have been accused of civil rights abuses in cracking down on street vendors and other public nuisance violators.
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News of the incident first hit the Chinese internet on October 16, when a user nicknamed “xao xiaoxiang” posted word of the attack on Sina Weibo, The Beijing Times reported.
“In the early morning today in the Tong’an district of Xiamen city, threechengguan officers were attacked with sulfuric acid and are now receiving medical assistance in the hospital,” the post read.
Later media reports by China Daily said that 19 officers had been wounded by the acid and 18 had been sent to hospital, and the attack had occurred as the chengguan were carrying out a “joint law enforcement action by the Urban Management Bureau of Tong’an district and the land department.”
The Beijing Times reported that the officers all had varying degrees of burns, and hospital footage later showed that the men had mostly received injuries on their faces, backs, necks and arms.
. Last month, Xia Junfeng was executed for killing two chengguan despite stating to the court that he had acted in self-defense. The Global Times reports that officers standing trial for the death of a vendor are often not subject to criminal penalties:
A majority of the 16 widely covered cases since 2000, in which vendors died from physical altercations with urban management officers, or chengguan, during law enforcement, resulted in the accused being exempted from criminal penalties, the Southern Weekly revealed on Thursday.
3 (not 18) Chengguan Hospitalized After Acid Attack
The South China Morning Post reports that 18 chengguan were hospitalized this week in Xiamen, Fujian province after being attacked with sulfuric acid:
News of the incident first hit the Chinese internet on October 16, when a user nicknamed “xao xiaoxiang” posted word of the attack on Sina Weibo,The Beijing Times reported.“In the early morning today in the Tong’an district of Xiamen city, three chengguan officers were attacked with sulfuric acid and are now receiving medical assistance in the hospital,” the post read.[...]Sina Weibo users commenting on this latest development pointed out the irony of chengguan now being victims of violence themselves, and one vehement poster said that it was “a good thing” that the officers were now “suffering pain and despair”.“Chengguan have indeed committed many misconducts, but this [attack] of sulfuric acid is too cruel,” a more sympathetic member of the online community wrote. [Source]
Chengguan, or members of city Urban Management Enforcement Bureaus (城市管理行政执法局), are infamous for brutally, and sometimes fatally, enforcing the law on unlicensed street vendors. Human Rights Watch has paid close attention to abuse at the hand of chengguan, and last year released a full report on the subject. After the story of the acid attack in Xiamen broke, HRW’s China director tweeted:
Chengguan have long been the targets of public scorn due to their tendency towards heavy-handed enforcement techniques and to their lack of legal accountability relative to the street vendors
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