40 students, one teacher and one military instructor have been injured in violent clashes that broke out at a Hunan middle school's military training yesterday.
According to eyewitnesses, fighting initially broke out after a student confronted one of the instructors for joking around with a female student. The instructor kicked the boy to the ground and although fighting did not break out then other officers reportedly heard that a fellow instructor was beaten by the students. More instructors then turned up later that day to impose "corporal punishment" on the students, this time armed and — investigations have revealed — drunk.
The students' homeroom teacher then tried phoning for help but was also surrounded and beaten by the instructors. Reports indicate that the students attempted to fight back soon thereafter.
25 students remain in hospital today with broken bones and other injuries.
Chinese students have mandatory military training throughout their educational career, with those who attend further education required to attend military training forf around 20 days as a part of compulsory military education courses.
The most popular comments on the stories all sided with the students against the instructors, who were labeled "local ruffians" and "hoodlums."
Instructors? They're all discharged soldiers, garbage. The students should get more organized, kill all these dregs of society!
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