Military Veterans Protest Over Missing Promised Benefits
June 25 2015
Former Chinese soldiers have been protesting over missing benefits, though the government has not even acknowledged their sit-in.
Starting on Tuesday, hundreds of veterans from the People's Liberation Army began a protest outside China's central military command in Beijing, reports Radio Free Asia.
About 3,000 retired soldiers, many of them veterans of the 1979 border war with Vietnam and the border conflict with the Soviet Union in 1969, staged a sit-in, a protester told...
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