Word: guchengli
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...Still, some outspoken local leaders are belatedly coming forward and challenging the sanitized SARS picture being presented to the Yuhuan public. When asked whether social order had been restored to Gucheng village, as the government-controlled local newspaper cheerfully reported, a security official laughed and replied: "You are journalists, so you, of all people, should know that what's reported in our newspapers isn't true...
...Indeed, just as local media proclaimed a return to normality, Gucheng was being paralyzed by the most violent riots yet to hit this relatively prosperous village of pomelo farmers. By the time we arrived on Thursday afternoon, citizens were still milling around the village's Communist Party headquarters under the watchful gaze of police. The uprisings had begun on the night of May 3, when word leaked out that six potentially SARS-infected patients from out of town would be quarantined in the party building. Furious that they hadn't been consulted about a decision to isolate possibly contagious patients...
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