Shanghai is falling behind the party line again, comments ESWN in an overview of remarkable editorials on the anti-Japanese reports. Especially the relations with the anti-protest editorial of the People's Daily in 1989, signalling the Party did not support the students at Tiananmen Square.
This is what the Liberation Daily, the daily paper of the communist party in Shanghai, wrote on April 25, 2005:
A great many facts have proved that the recent illegal march was a criminal action and not a patriotic event: this is not a spontaneous movement by the people, but there is a conspiracy behind the curtain. At the moment, our important mission is to identify clearly the nature of the struggle, to disclose the truth of the matter, to protect the respect of the law and to stop these criminal actions!
There is more, but leaves now very little room to guess. State media are also out in force to document the arrests of paint-throwing demonstrators in the past days, reports AP. Over 40 people have been arrested, often confessing their 'mistakes' handcuffed in front of cameras. Is there more needed to discourage any other protests? Footage of violent demonstrators is shown on TV and citizens are asked to report on them. Must be a loot of footage with half of the demonstrators being police men.
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