On December 9, 2005, citing AP, San Francisco Chronicle reported that
hundreds of Chinese riot police surrounded and sealed Dongzhou, a
village in the southern Guangdong Province, where authorities fatally
shot demonstrators this week.
Read more details in
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/12/09/international/i092407S20.DTL
According to the article,
* On Tuesday thousands of people gathered to protest the amount
of money offered by the government as compensation for land to
be used for a wind power plant construction.
* The death toll ranged from 2 to 10, and many remained missing.
* State media did not mention the incident and both provincial and
local governments refused to comment.
