China has lots of internal problems:
Thousands of rioters torched police and government office buildings in southwest China on Saturday, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl's death, residents and state media reported on Sunday.
About 10,000 people mobbed government offices in Weng'an county, Guizhou province, on Saturday afternoon demanding justice over the teenager's death after her body was found in a local river, a resident said.
"Local residents were very angry about the injustice exercised by local authorities," the resident, who is an official at a local government office, told Reuters by telephone.
"About 10,000 people rushed to the site and totally burned down the county party office building, and burned other offices in the county government."
"They also burned about 20 vehicles, including police cars," the official, surnamed Huang, said.
Huang said residents were angered when authorities declared the girl had killed herself by jumping in the river. Residents believed the girl had been murdered by the nephew of a senior government official.
Blogs linked to the popular Sina.com Chinese website (www.sina.com.cn) showed pictures of thousands of people surrounding a police headquarters, riot police guarding the burning shell of the building, and burnt and overturned police vehicles.
Chinese websites quickly removed many messages about the incident, but others remained accessible.
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