Huge Demonstration in China, but Subject Is Traffic Safety
SHANGHAI, Jan. 9 - Some 10,000 people took to the streets in the eastern city of Hefei this week in what appears to have been the largest student demonstration since the Tiananmen Square human rights protests of 1989.
But the students had a much narrower agenda: traffic safety.
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As a result of the unrest, students said, the driver of the truck was arrested and the city agreed to build the pedestrian bridge.
"We got results," one student said in a telephone interview. "People are satisfied."
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