Africans protest in Peking
NZPA-Reuter Peking More than 100 angrjl African students marched through Peking’s diplomatic area yesterday in a demon* stration against what the J called bad treatment they received in China.
The protest was prompted by three days of fighting be* tween African and Chinese students earlier this month at the Shanghai Textile In* stitute. African students irt Peking said 150 foreigners had been injured in Shanghai. 25 of them se* riously. Student sources said tension between the African and Chinese at various institutes around the country had been high for some time. It was aggravated by language problems, loneliness. and a big cultural gap between Africans and Chinese.
The march ended at the Moroccan Embassy where the demonstrators handed n petition to the Ambassador (Mr Abderrahim Harkett), dean of the African Diplomatic Corps. Students said the petition contained protests over the Shanghai incident and the treatment of African students in China in general, ft asked African Governments to stop sending students to China.
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