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Beijing University Stand Off
We are on the ground at Beijing University where a standoff is unfolding between police and a group of armed thugs that call themselves "Revolutionary Maoist Movement"(RMM). They claim to be a splinter group from the RSAL group. RMM seized several classroom buildings, the chapel, dormitory and the administration building.

Police arrived within minutes of receiving calls from panicking students, mamy of them residents in the dorms. Students at the university were ordered to lock their doors and to shelter in place. Foreign students on campus were ordered to do the same until they are evacuated along with domestic students.

Students off campus are asked to stay home. All foreign students have been issued an advisory to shelter in their consulates or to shelter in place. We can see Tactical units and more patrol officers fortifying the permiter. We could see Police snipers positioned on the roofs of buildings, their rifles trained at the black clad RMM thugs.

A negotiator from the National Police Agency has been in dialogue to let all students evacuate peacefully and to stand down. RMM issued their demands that we will list

1. President Ma and PM Bo are to step down
2. The government of China is to be reformed
3. China is to establish diplomatic relations with Socialist countries
4. Safe passage off Beijing Campus

The group stated they are armed with guns and bombs. They have threatened to shoot at students and at police.

The National Police Agency as well as Beijing City Police, Beijing University Police, Tactical units and the National Guard have surrounded the university with their guns trained at the occupied buildings. Behind them are fire fighters and paramedics.

We can see a cloud of smoke rising from one of the classroom buildings that they set on fire. Computers and books litter the fields in front of the captured buildings. Communist graffiti was sprayed on the walls and the Hammer and Sickle flag of the Communist Party as well as the RMM flag was raised on the roof of the administration building.

We will continue to cover this dramatic stand off.