Chinese Police Fire on Protesters, Killing at Least Two
from Radio Free Asia
HONG KONG — At least two villagers in China’s southern province of Guangdong have died after police fired on a crowd protesting the construction of a wind power plant, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
Witnesses and Dongzhou Hospital authorities near the port city of Shanwei told RFA’s Mandarin service that by 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, villagers Jiang Hu and Jiang Guanji had died in the local hospital while a third, identified as Tang Daxiang, was receiving emergency treatment.
“At least four villagers have died,” another villager said at approximately 11:30 p.m. “There is a dead body on the street yet to be retrieved. Many are wounded by gunshots. I don’t know what kind of guns. I just know they were using real bullets on us. No policemen were wounded.”
“The hospital has become a virtual funeral hall with family members of the dead crying,”one villager told reporter Ding Xiao.
“They were bleeding. One was hit in the head, one in the foot, and one in the torso. They have been rushed to Dongzhou Hospital. We have prepared detonators. We’re ready to fight,”another said.
An official at Dongzhou Hospital confirmed two deaths, while another confirmed that a third shooting victim was undergoing emergency treatment.
“They were firing shots. But they were afraid to move in. We had blocked the roads with water pipes, gasoline and detonators,”another villager said. “And there were about 10,000 villagers there. We tried calling the central government several times for help. But all we got was answering machines.”
Riot police have now crashed through roadblocks set up by villagers and dismantled their tents near the power plant. Villagers have retreated back to Dongzhou village, they said.
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A week ago Chinese police killed ~20 protestors
They have been trying to maintain a news blackout.
International reporters caught wind of this and have been trying to report the news. The news is sparse but it appears that ~20 protestors in the 20s-30s have been killed by police.
I am starting a post which links to all of the news agencies that have reported this. We can't let an international tragedy like this go unheard.
If you know of any news agencies that have articles or pictures of this incident please let me know:
http://www.gabbr.com/thread.php?id=150
This is the time for Bloggers to unite since we have free speech on our side and are not swayed by government attempts for media blackouts!
Post about this story on your blog. No matter what your blog is about -- spread this information across the blogosphere.
The following is a detailed blog of the 12.6 events
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20051209_1.htm
Also at the link
http://english.epochtimes.com/211,104,,1.html
And Google "Shanwei Massacre" will bring up a whole lot more related info.