Dioneae muscipula wrote:
> On December 9, 2005, citing AP, San Francisco Chronicle re****ted 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.
According to re****ts, the government offer amounted to less than two
and a half U.S. dollars per year per person:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a.CfKv5uwcDU&refer=top_world_news
The people of Dongzhou, home to about 30,000 people, rejected a
government offer of 600,000 yuan ($74,290) a year for land taken up by
the plant, Radio Free Asia re****ted Oct. 12, citing a village
representative surnamed Huang. The U.S. based radio service, which is
funded by the U.S. Congress, said the power project would cost $743
million.
> * 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.
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