Speaker 1: On This Day and Working Class History the tenth of
Speaker 1: January and on the tenth of January two thousand and three,
Speaker 1: university students in Bongie in the Central African Republic battles
Speaker 1: police in the streets in protest are the government not
Speaker 1: paying their scholarship grants. Students were entitled to ninety thousand
Speaker 1: cfa francs every three months, but they hadn't been paid
Speaker 1: since the previous academic year. The students burned tires and
Speaker 1: wood in the streets and stoned cars headed for a
Speaker 1: government conference. Police and soldiers fired tear gas and gunshots,
Speaker 1: and a local newspaper reported that police had killed two students,
Speaker 1: although this was denied by the government. The sources, maps
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