【新唐人2011年10月29日讯】浙江爆发抗议政府加税的群体性事件，湖州市织里镇一名安徽籍女厂商，遭到税收官员暴打，激起民愤，引发上万人围堵政府机关，爆发严重的警民流血冲突，民众砸毁数百车辆、焚烧警车。当地居民指证有多人被打死，当局则公开否认，并抓捕了28人，调集大批军警进驻。
湖州市吴兴区织里镇是全国最大的儿童服装生产基地，全镇三分之二是外来人口，多数加工作坊是安徽人办的。当地政府今年只对外地人疯狂加税，征收金额比去年激增一倍。
10月26号，一名安徽籍童装城女厂商，拒绝在加税一倍的文件上签字，遭到多名税收官员毒打，随后有5人被捕。数百名业主和员工前往镇政府门口要求放人，再次遭到警察殴打，引发上万人上街游行。
织里镇一童装厂业主张先生表示，民间传织里镇镇长声称，安徽人就是我们的奴隶，这句话激怒了安徽人。
织里镇居民周先生28号指出，官民长期矛盾造成的积怨是事件的主因。
周先生：“真正矛盾的原因应该是平时积累起来的，是民怨的爆发，无非昨天这个事件是个导火线而已。其实，真正加入的远远不止安
愤怒的民众砸毁政府车辆，一辆奥迪车逃串时，当场撞飞了十几人，导致事态激化，更多的民众砸车泄愤，焚烧警车，大量武警强行驱散人群。
27号抗税冲突升级，数千民众游行前往政府大楼，他们高呼“安徽人联合起来”的口号，掀翻砸毁至少500辆车，并焚烧20多辆警车，与武警爆发流血冲突，有武警大喊：“抵抗者当场击毙。”
当晚织里镇戒严，当局从外地增调数千武警特警，并从南京军区调来大量军车部队。全镇已停课，店铺关门，上街需携带身份证。
周先生：“武警在用警棍打人的过程当中，是有人被打死的，这是可靠的消息，应该是，据我所知是可靠的消息。打死的肯定是抗议的人嘛，肯定是那些安徽的人，那是被那些武警打死的。”
《中国茉莉花革命》网站引述安徽民工的话说，两天共死了十几人，死者绝大部分是安徽人，也有警员被烧死、打死。织里镇居民谭先生也这么说。
谭先生：“有十几人被打死了吧，然后昨天下午的时候又有1、2个人，应该都是民众，好像讲有一个是武警。”
据《博讯网》消息，抗税事件造成100人受伤、8人死亡。香港《苹果日报》引述织里镇居民王先生的的话说，打死了好几个人。香港《人权民运信息中心》的消息说有两人死亡。
织里镇一童装厂安徽籍业者28号也向《新唐人》证实，有民众和警察被打死。
织里镇安徽籍业者：“打死一个警察，两个伤了，而且，暴乱的也打死几个，民众也有啊，那暴乱的也有死的，那警察车都被烧了。”
湖州市吴兴区政府发布声明否认有人死亡，只承认奥迪车造成10人住院治疗。《新华社》报导，目前事态基本得到控制，织里镇政府已暂停税收征收，事件相关的税收员已被解聘。
《21世纪网》总编辑助理周斌指出，纵观各地政策，常是向底层横征暴敛，补贴金字塔顶端，这种劫贫济富的财税政策，只能称之为“弱智政策”。
湖州市异议人士范子良：“中国的财政那么重，主要是养的吃闲饭的人太多了，他的工资从哪里开支呢？只有从老百姓头上刮。从表面上看起来平息了，但是从心里面平息，要彻底改变制度，如果由老百姓投票选举的话，你不会这样对待老百姓了。”
《福布斯》“税负痛苦指数”排行榜，中国位居全球第二，难怪有网友讥讽“共产党万税”。安徽籍学者叶匡政指出，湖州织里抗税事件只是一个讯号，表明民众已不堪高额税负，极有可能成蔓延之势。
新唐人记者林莉、李元翰、孙宁采访报导。
China’s High Tax Burdens Unbearable
Anchor:
A mass incident broke out in Zhejiang province when
the local authorities hiked taxes on factory owners.
A factory owner of Anhui domicile was beaten by tax officers,
sparking public fury and thousands of people surrounded
local authorities’ office building, triggering a severe bloody
clash with armed police.
Civilians smashed cars and burned police cars.
Local residents confirmed that many people were killed.
The local authorities denied the news, arrested 28 people,
and mobilized massive military police forces.
Reporter:
Zhili Town of Wuxing District in Huzhou City is the largest
production base of childrens clothing.
Two-thirds of the town’s population are migrants from other
places in China.
Most workshops are owned by Anhui people.
This year, the local authorities only hiked taxes on migrants.
The levied amount surged, doubling last year’s figure.
On October 26th, a manufacturer of Anhui domicile
refused to sign on the document that doubled taxes.
She was beaten by several tax officials, and afterwards,
five people were arrested.
Hundreds of owners and employees went to the town
authorities demanding release of detainees, but were beaten again by the police.
The incident caused tens of thousands of people to
take their demonstration onto the street.
Mr. Zhang, a factory owner, said that the town mayor claimed,
“Anhui people are our slaves.”
The remarks incited Anhui migrants’ fury.
On October 28th, local resident Mr. Zhou said that long-term hostility
caused by conflicts between officials and the public is the root cause.
Mr. Zhou: “The root cause of the conflicts deepened day by day.
It is just an outbreak of the masses’ discontent, fused by the incident.
In fact, besides the Anhui people, participants also included
migrants from various places.
The majority are Anhui people.”
Angry masses smashed local authorities’ vehicles.
An Audi car hit and knocked down over a dozen people
when it fled, making the situation tense.
More people got involved in car smashing to
vent their resentment.
Police cars were burned.
Massive armed police forcibly dispersed the crowd.
The clash escalated on October 27th, when thousands of
civilians marched towards the authorities’ building.
They shouted “Anhui people unite together", destroyed and
overturned at least 500 cars, and burned over 20 police cars.
A bloody conflict ensued with armed police.
Armed police shouted, “Resisters will be shot on the spot."
That evening, a curfew was imposed on Zhili Town.
Thousands of armed police and ranger police were
dispatched from other places to reinforce the local force.
A large number of military vehicles were
mobilized from the Nanjing Military Region.
Schools are closed town-wide.
Shops are shut.
People who go out should carry their ID card.
Mr. Zhou: “Someone was beaten to death by the armed
police with batons.
The news is reliable, as far as I know.
The deceased are certainly those who protested, definitely
those Anhui people who were killed by armed police."
Molihua.org quoted a migrant worker from Anhui, as saying
that over a dozen people were killed within two days.
Most of them are Anhui people, but there are policemen
who died from burning or beatings.
Local resident Mr. Tan said that again.
Mr. Tan: “Over a dozen people were killed.
Yesterday afternoon, one or two more were killed.
All the deaths should be civilians, but sources say
that it seems one of them is an armed police.”
Boxun.com reported that the tax resistance incident
injured 100 people, and caused eight deaths.
Hong Kong’s Apple Dailyquoted local resident Mr. Wang
as saying that several people were killed.
Hong Kong-based Information center for
Human Rights & Democracy said that two people died.
On October 28th, an Anhui factory owner in Zhili Town
confirmed to NTD that civilians and policeman were killed.
An Anhui factory owner: “A policeman was killed, two injured.
A few rioters were killed as well as civilians.
The police cars were burned.”
Wuxing District authorities issued a statement
denying any death in the conflict.
The claims said that the Audi car caused 10 people to be hospitalized.
According to Xinhua News Agency reports, currently
the situation is basically stabilized.
Zhili Town authorities have suspended tax collection, and dismissed
concerned tax staff.
Zhou Bin, assistant Chief Editor, pointed out that
after reviewing the policies all across China, it is
commonplace to extort excessive taxes and levies
from civilians to subsidize the top of the pyramid.
Such a policy of robbing the poor to benefit the rich
can only be labeled as a “mentally retarded policy."
Fan Ziliang (Huzhou-based dissident): “China’s public
finance expenditure is so large, mainly because too many
useless mouths were fed by the authorities.
Where does his salary come from?
Only at the expense of civilians.
It is seemingly quiet.
But for the real inner quiet,there needs a thorough
change of the institution.
If it were elected by the masses, it will not
treat civilians in that way. ”
On the Forbes Tax Misery Index, China ranked second.
No wonder a netizen satirized online, saying,
“The CCP ten thousand taxes” (sounds similar to
ten thousand years in Chinese).
Anhui-based scholar Ye Kuangzheng, believed that Huzhou
tax resistance incident is only a signal warning that
civilians cannot further bear high tax burdens,
the situation is very likely to spread.
NTD reporters Lin Li, Li Yuanhan and Sun Ning
