Shouting "Japanese invaders must die," thousands protested in eastern China against Japan's wartime past on Saturday, hurling rocks and bottles at
Tokyo's consulate in Shanghai and burning Japanese flags.
But with thousands of paramilitary police on the streets of Beijing and students warned against protests, authorities headed off a repeat of last
weekend's violent demonstrations in the capital, which Japan's foreign minister is to visit on Sunday.
There was also calm in the southern city of Guangzhou and Chongqing in the southwest, where thousands marched last weekend.
China has been accused of tacitly encouraging the unrest, which started in Guangdong and Sichuan provinces early this month, spread to Beijing last
week and, now, to Tianjin, Shanghai and Hangzhou on the east coast.
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In the third weekend of violent protests against Japan, thousands marched on the Japanese consulate in Shanghai, smashing its windows with rocks,
pelting it with paint bombs and attacking Japanese restaurants along the way.
One banner read "Face Up to History." Another warned: "The anti-Japan war is not over yet."
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SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Chanting "Japanese pigs get out," protesters threw stones and broke windows at Japan's consulate and Japanese restaurants in
China as some 20,000 people defied government warnings to protest Tokyo's wartime history and its bid for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat.
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Chinese protesters burn Japanese flags during a demonstration outside the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai April 16, 2005. Anti-Japanese protests in
Shanghai turned violent on Saturday, when Chinese demonstrators began hurling rocks and bottles at Japanese restaurants and burning Japan's national
emblem.
Whaa..? Before this I didn't know other nations flags actually burned! I thought only U.S. flags did that...
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Getting pretty violent. So, what do you see happening? You think the japanese are going to rewrite the text book? Do you see this spreading even
more?
[edit on 16-4-2005 by andpau66]
[edit on 16-4-2005 by andpau66]
