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20 Reported Killed as Chinese Unrest Escalates

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By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: December 9, 2005
SHANGHAI, Dec. 9 - Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said that as many as 20 people had been killed by paramilitary police in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests that have roiled the Chinese countryside. Villagers said that as many as 50 other residents remain unaccounted for since the shooting. It is the largest known use of force by security forces against ordinary citizens since the killings around Tiananmen Square in 1989. That death toll remains unknown, but is estimated to be in the hundreds.

The violence began after dark in the town of Dongzhou on Tuesday evening. Terrified residents said their hamlet has remained occupied by thousands of security forces, who have blocked off all access roads and are reportedly arresting residents who attempt to leave the area in the wake of the heavily armed assault.

"From about 7 p.m. the police started firing tear gas into the crowd, but this failed to scare people," said a resident who gave his name only as Li and claimed to have been at the scene, where a relative of his was killed. "Later, we heard more than 10 explosions, and thought they were just detonators, so nobody was scared. At about 8 p.m. they started using guns, shooting bullets into the ground, but not really targeting anybody.

"Finally, at about 10 p.m. they started killing people."

The use of live ammunition to put down a protest is almost unheard of in China, where the authorities have come to rely on rapid deployment of huge numbers of security forces, tear gas, water cannons and other non-lethal measures. But Chinese authorities have become increasingly nervous in recent months over the proliferation of demonstrations across the countryside, particularly in heavily industrialized eastern provinces like Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiansu. By the government's tally there were 74,000 riots or other significant public disturbances in 2004, a big jump from previous years.

The villagers in Dongzhou said their dispute with the authorities had begun with a conflict over plans by a power company to build a coal-fired generator in their area, which they feared would cause heavy pollution. Farmers said they had not been compensated for the use of the land for the plant. Others said plans to reclaim land by filling in a local bay as part of the power plant project were unacceptable because people have made their livelihoods there as fishermen for generations. Already, villagers complained, work crews have been blasting a nearby mountainside for rubble for the landfill.

A small group of villagers was delegated to complain to the authorities about the plant in July, but they were arrested, infuriating other residents and encouraging others to join the protest movement. On Dec. 6, while villagers were mounting a sit-in demonstration, police made a number of arrests, bringing lots of people out into the streets, where they managed to detain several officers. In response, hundreds of law enforcement agents were rushed to the scene. Everybody, young and old, "went out to watch," said one man who claimed his cousin had been killed by a police officer's bullet in the forehead. "We didn't expect they were so evil. The farmers had no means to resist them."

Early reports from the village said the police opened fire only after villagers began throwing homemade bombs and other missiles, but villagers reached by telephone today denied this, saying that a few farmers had launched ordinary fireworks at the police as part of their protest. "Those were not bombs, they were fireworks, the kind that fly up into the sky," said one witness reached by telephone. "The organizers didn't have any money, so someone bought fireworks and placed them there. At the moment the trouble started many of the demonstrators were holding them, and of those who held fireworks, almost everyone was killed."

Other witnesses estimated that 10 people were killed immediately in the first volley of automatic gunfire. "I live not far from the scene, and I was running as fast as I could," said one witness, who declined to give his name. "I dragged one of the people they killed, a man in his 30's who was shot in his chest. Initially I thought he might survive, because he was still breathing, but he was panting heavily, and as soon as I pulled him aside, he died."

The witness said that he, too, had come under fire when the police saw him coming to the aid of the dying man. The Chinese government has yet to issue a statement about the incident, nor has it been reported in the state media. Reached by telephone, an official in the city of Shanwei, which has jurisdiction over the village, said, "Yes, there was an incident, but we don't know the details." The official said an official announcement would be made on Saturday.

Villagers said that in addition to the regular security forces, the authorities had enlisted thugs from local organized crime groups to help put down the demonstration. "They had knives and sticks in their hands, and they were two or three layers thick, lining the road," one man said. "They stood in front of the armed police, and when the tear gas was launched, the thugs were all ducking."

Like the Dongzhou incident itself, most of the thousands of riots and public disturbances recorded in China this year have involved environmental, property rights and land use issues. Among other problems, in trying to come to grips with the growing rural unrest, the Chinese government is wrestling with a yawning gap in incomes between farmers and urban dwellers, and rampant corruption in local government, where unaccountable officials deal away communal property rights, often for their own profit.

Finally, mobile telephone technology has made it easier for people in rural China to organize, communicating news to one another by short messages, and increasingly allowing them to stay in touch with members of non-governmental organizations in big cities who are eager to advise them or provide legal help.

Over the last three days, residents of the village say that other than people looking for their missing relatives, few people have dared go outside. Meanwhile, the police and other security forces have reportedly combed the village house by house, looking for leaders of the demonstration and making arrests.

Residents said that after the villagers' demonstration was suppressed a senior Communist Party official came to the hamlet from the nearby city of Shanwei and addressed residents with a megaphone. "Shanwei and Dongzhou are still good friends," the party official said. "We're not here against you. We are here to make the construction of the Red Sea Bay better. Later, the official reportedly told visitors, "all of the families who have people who died must send a representative to the police for a solution."

Today, a group of 100 or so bereaved villagers gathered at a bridge leading into the town, briefly blocking access to security forces hoisting a white banner whose black-ink characters read: "The dead suffered a wrong. Uphold justice."

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China says police fired on villagers after hundreds attacked officials PETER ENAV
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BEIJING (AP) - China on Saturday made its first official comment on a clash between authorities and demonstrators in a southern Chinese village in which an unknown number of people were killed, saying hundreds of armed villagers "incited by a few instigators" had assaulted police.

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Residents of Guangdong province's Dongzhou village, northeast of Hong Kong, have said authorities killed up to 20 people Tuesday when they fired on demonstrators protesting allegedly inadequate payments for land taken for a power plant.

The province has formed a special group to investigate the incident, the official Xinhua New Agency said.

It quoted the city government as saying that hundreds of villagers "incited by a few instigators" had violently attacked a wind power plant on Tuesday and assaulted police in a "serious violation of the law."

The villagers used knives, steel spears, sticks, dynamite, petroleum bombs and fishing detonators to attack the plant, Xinhua said.

Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and arrested two insurgents, it said.

However, the attackers regrouped, and when it became dark they began throwing explosives at police, it said.

"Police were forced to open fire in alarm. In the chaos, three villagers died, eight were injured with three of them fatally injured," Xinhua said.

The violence drew renewed attention to rising tensions in rural China over land seizures for projects such as factories, power plants and shopping malls.

Xinhua said the villagers were unhappy over land requisition and were demanding more compensation.

Farmers often say they're paid too little. Some accuse officials of stealing compensation money.

Late Saturday, villagers said a tense standoff continued around Dongzhou as thousands of troops patrolled the perimeter, and frightened villagers either remained in their homes or argued with police over relatives' bodies.

Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper reported that Dongzhou villagers said authorities were trying to cover up the killings by offering families money for the bodies.

"They offered us a sum but said we would have to give up the body," an unidentified relative of one slain villager, 31-year-old Wei Jin, was quoted as saying. "We are not going to agree."

Police with villagers' photos were trying to find people linked to the protest, the newspaper said, citing residents.

A village woman told The Associated Press by telephone that police were holding some bodies, refusing relatives' pleas to return them.

The woman, who refused to give her name for fear of retribution, said 10-20 people were dead as a result of Tuesday's violence.

A village man, who gave only his surname, Chong, put the number at 15-20. He said many of the victims' families had gone to a local police station seeking compensation, but officers had turned them back.

Chong said dozens of people were still missing, but didn't elaborate.

Telephone calls to the local police station went unanswered.

Incidents like the one in Dongzhou have alarmed communist leaders, who are promising to spend more to raise living standards in the poor countryside, home to about 800 million people.

By the government's count, China had more than 70,000 cases of rural unrest last year. Protests are growing more violent, with injuries on both sides.

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去看了一圈，国内没报道

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汕尾事件真相 : 暴力襲警3死8傷
2005-12-11
【大公網訊】據廣東省汕尾市人民政府新聞辦公室發布：１２月６日，廣東省汕尾市紅海灣開發區發生了由少數人煽動的數百村民對風力發電廠進行打、砸、燒甚至對現場執法公安幹警發動暴力襲擊的嚴重違法事件。

據新華社汕尾（廣東）１２月１０日電，１２月５日中午，長期組織部分東洲坑村村民以汕尾火力發電廠征地補償等問題為由鬧事的黃希俊等人，為制造新的事端，挑動鄰近的施公寨村部分村民以風力發電破壞該村風水為由，非法包圍並沖擊風力發電廠，迫使該廠從當天下午４時３０分起停止發電長達７小時，在當地有關部門採取措施制止事態發展並恢復電廠生產後，１２月６日下午３時許，東洲坑村為首滋事分子黃希俊、林漢儒、黃希讓等糾集１７０多名同村村民，手持大刀、鋼叉、木棍、炸藥、汽油燃燒瓶、魚炮（內含炸藥和雷管，當地漁民非法炸魚的爆炸物），再次圍攻、襲擊風力發電廠主控樓，大量投擲魚炮和汽油燃燒瓶，導致廠內多處起火，一變壓器被炸壞，在教育疏導和反複勸說無效的情況下，值勤民警為維護公用設施安全，使用催淚彈驅散鬧事人群，現場抓獲兩名東洲坑村的鬧事分子。

６日下午４時許，黃希俊等人再次煽動東洲坑村３００多人，攜帶魚炮和汽油燃燒瓶等兇器，設置路障封堵通往施公寨村的唯一道路，阻撓正在施公寨村執行公務的幹警撤離，要挾公安機關立即釋放被抓獲的鬧事分子，針對這一情況，公安幹警採取喊話等方式勸告村民撤離，當時圍觀群眾越聚越多，最多時達５００多人，部分想退走的群眾被黃希俊等人組織的巡邏隊裹脅威嚇而不敢離開。為及時控制局面，汕尾市增派了警力維持秩序，以黃希俊等為首的鬧事分子不但不聽規勸，繼續封堵道路，並向現場執法幹警發動暴力襲擊，不斷向公安幹警投擲石塊、魚炮、汽油燃燒瓶等，在多次喊話無效的情況下，警方一度施放了催淚彈，但由於風向的影響，作用有限，無法驅散人群，場面越來越難以控制，黃希俊等帶頭鬧事分子氣燄更為囂張，林漢儒用高功率擴音器向警方喊話，「限令」公安幹警必須在１５分鐘內撤離，否則「就把幹警隊伍炸平」，還揚言要馬上炸毀電廠。此時，鬧事者更密集地向幹警投擲魚炮、汽油燃燒瓶等。在現場十分緊急的情況下，執法幹警被迫鳴槍警告，由於當時天色已黑，現場非常混亂，造成誤死誤傷。整個事件共有３人死亡、８人受傷，其中３人重傷，死傷者均為東洲坑村人，公安幹警發現傷者後立即將其送往醫院救治，具體死傷原因尚在調查中。至當晚９時許，人群逐漸散去，事態基本得到控制，幹警拆除了黃希俊等人設置的幾個路障。

「１２．６」事件是一起由極少數人挑起的打、砸、燒嚴重違法事件，自今年６月以來，東洲坑村黃希俊等為首滋事分子對村民威逼利誘，煽動部分村民對在建中的汕尾火力發電廠建設征地補償提出許多不合理要求，採取阻撓電廠施工、堵塞交通要道、扣留過往車輛和人員、攻擊政府辦公場所和工作人員等過激甚至違法行為，要挾政府滿足其無理要求，在汕尾市委、市政府通過大量工作依法處理群眾訴求，當地大多數群眾都表示支持政府工作措施的情況下，東洲坑村極少數滋事分子不肯善罷甘休，為擴大事態，把攻擊目標轉向與東洲坑村並無征地關係的風力發電廠，把鬧事范圍擴展到相鄰的施公寨村，對坐落在施公寨村的風力發電廠實施打、砸、燒嚴重違法行為，暴力襲擊現場執法的公安幹警，成為導致「１２．６」事件的罪魁禍首，應該對事件造成的嚴重後果承擔法律責任。對在特別緊急的情況下，現場指揮處置過程中造成的誤死誤傷，汕尾市有關部門正在進行調查。

「１２．６」事件發生後，廣東省委、省政府高度重視，有關領導６日連夜趕赴汕尾市了解情況，指導事件調查處理。同時，從省城調來３名醫療專家參與傷員救治工作，汕尾市委、市政府迅速成立了「１２．６」事件處置工作領導小組，目前，「１２．６」事件調查處理工作正在進行中。

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反正大公报也是一国内报社性质。

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那怎么是繁体？看的我眼疼