China’s students return to books
NZPA-Reuter Shanghai Many university students who took part in’ four days of street demonstrations to demand democracy and press freedom have returned to classes, a leading Shanghai newspaper said yesterday.
The “Shanghai Wen Hui Bao” said lectures resumed and libraries were crowded with students preparing for mid-year examinations, which start in the first week of January.
A planned mass rally on Tuesday evening, at People’s Square, in the city centre, fizzled after most students failed to turn up.
The police breathed a sigh of relief yesterday morning as they dismantled road blocks and workers cleaned up streets in front of City Hall.
About 2000 students yesterday marched through the city’s business area on Tuesday waving banners and shouting slogans but they dispersed
peacefully early in the evening.
The police gave no indication whether anyone had been arrested, but witnesses said they saw at least seven people being dragged into police cars. In Peking, the “People’s Daily” called for unity and stability as vital prerequisites to achieve China’s modernisation, in a front-page editorial that Western diplomats said was a warning to students to stay off the streets. The newspaper said that while the Communist
Party and Government welcomed criticism and advice from the public, “extremist behaviour” would not influence unity, stability and modernisation.
A Western diplomat said the editorial was a warning to students that the leadership had had enough of demonstrations. “Up to now, the treatment has been lenient, allowing the protests to occur. But the leadership has decided that more of them would be counterproductive,” he said.
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