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Another Large Conflict in
Shanwei City, Guangdong Province
Gu Qing'er
Epoch
Times
Monday Aug 27, 2007
At 9 a.m. on Aug 24, 2007, a large scale conflict broke out between
armed police and 2000 residents in Dongzhou Village, Shanwei City,
Guangdong Province.
The authority mobilized almost a thousand armed police and public
security personnel. They used tear gas and water cannons to disperse
the 2000 residents attempting to stop a construction project.
The armed police withdrew at 3 p.m. that afternoon.
Three residents were injured and hospitalized. According to a
resident, one of the three hospitalized residents is no longer
in mortal danger after emergency rescue.
It is said the authorities planned to arrest the participating
residents in Dongzhou. The residents call for attention to this
matter from people and media outside of China.
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Police and Gangsters Were Waiting
The local regime has not compensated those residents who lost
their land to the Shanwei Power Plant's 500kV power cable construction
project. Instead of paying the residents, the regime hired hundreds
of gangsters at the construction site to stop the protest. Angry
residents protested and demanded that the government provide reasonable
compensation and tried to stop the power plant from hanging electrical
cables.
To ensure that the construction continued, on Aug 24, 2007, the
Shanwei authority mobilized armed police to the construction site,
along with the gangsters and the construction workers.
A resident at the scene disclosed that because the authority
put in more gangsters to watch the construction site, the residents
from Dongzhou Village decided to go to the site to ask for an
explanation. Almost 2000 residents went. About 1000 armed police,
public security personnel, and gangsters attacked the residents
and injured many of them. Three of the residents were hospitalized.
A female resident said that most of those who were injured by
the tear gas grenades were seniors, three of them were injured
badly and five slightly.
"The police used tear gas grenades and water cannons to
hurt the protesters. Many of them couldn't open their eyes. Ever
since the power plant was built here, the land compensation issue
was never resolved. Now the government hired gangsters to stop
and assault residents, hence many people decided to stop the construction.
"Some protesters were arrested and some were beaten. Still
now over 20 demolished private properties were not properly compensated.
The residents appealed many times to the government but got nothing.
The government then hired gangsters to threaten the residents,"
said a resident.
Business as Usual at the Police Station
The reporter called the local police bureau in Shanwei City and
asked about the incident, an officer replied that there wasn't
anything to tell. The reporters' later phone calls were never
answered.
Since the bloody massacre in Shanwei on Dec 6, 2005, the residents
continue to ask the local regime for reasonable compensation and
urge the investigation of local officials' involved in the compensation
related corruption. They also demanded that the government arrest
and punish the armed police who shot and killed 70 residents on
Dec 6, 2005.
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