Mass protests increasingly common: The Age (12 December
2005, p.9) reported that earlier this year the Public Security (Police)
Minister, Zhou Yongkang, reported that the number of “mass protests”
had risen from about 10,000 in 1994 to “more than 74,000” in 2004.
The Age, 12/12/2005, p. 9
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