24 November 2004 - Voice of America News
China's Sichuan Province Tense in Aftermath of Violent Anti-Dam Protests
By Luis Ramirez
Hanyuan, China
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This man, who did not want his name used, saw the confrontation and says it
is impossible to know exactly how many people were killed. "People died," he
said. "Maybe more than 10,000 died. It cannot be estimated."
Others in Hanyuan give accounts of staggering death tolls. But it is
impossible to independently verify. The government promptly sealed off the
entire region surrounding the dam, and banned all news media from entering.
Witnesses cautioned that if journalists were discovered in the area,
authorities would detain and expel them.
In a car with tinted windows, this reporter anonymously slipped into the
gorge along the Dadu River - past heavily armed soldiers and police, to
catch a glimpse of the gigantic dam project and the towns of villages that
are to be flooded.
http://www.voanews.com/english/China...-Aftermath-of-
Violent-Anti-Dam-Protests.cfm
Nov 10, 2004 - COMMUNIST POLICE BEAT SICHUAN PROTESTERS
Tens of thousands marched in Hanyuan County to protest a forced relocation
that included "tearing down their homes under orders issued by corrupt
officials" who lied about the compensation value of the land seized. In
response to the protest, the cadres sent in the police, who "injured several
dozen people and beat one man to death."
Nov 17, 2004 - SICHUAN PROTESTS ENDS WITH COMMUNIST POLICE SHOOTING
The farmers and others protesting a mass forced relocation in Hanyuan
County, Sichuan Province, were met with a hail of bullets from Communist
police. An activist in communication with the farmers during the shooting
told the Epoch Times that the police killed seventeen protestors and wounded
at least forty others.
Luo Gan, head of security for the People's Republic of China, flew in
himself to supervise the crackdown. Luo, a protégé of Tiananmen Square
butcher Li Peng, may have been driven to follow in Li's bloody footsteps by
the recent reports tallying the number of protests in Communist China at
more than three million.
http://www.geocities.com/china_e_lob...ember2004.html
Nov 24, 2004 - SICHUAN DAM HALTED, CADRE FIRED AFTER PROTEST
BUT THE KILLING CONTINUES AS MORE COMMUNIST MILITARY IS SENT IN
The massive protests against relocation forced by cadres building a dam in
Sichuan has led the Communists to fire one unnamed cadre and promise
suspension of construction. Left unmentioned by the BBC report of the
"riot" was the fact that Communist police shot at least seventeen
protestors dead.
In fact, the PRC has sent in the military to "put down the 'rebellion' of
the unarmed peasants", through, among other things, the use of tear gas -
"many people have been wounded and some killed." Of course, local cadres
are insisting "there is no gathering of armed forces and no conflict between
the government and local residents."
http://www.geocities.com/china_e_lob...ember2004.html
Dec 1, 2004 - DEATH TOLL IN HANYUAN COUNTY "CANNOT BE ESTIMATED"
"STAGGERING" SLAUGHTER BY MILITARY TERRORIZES ANTI-DAM LOCALS INTO SILENCE;
CONSTURCTION OF DAM CONTINUES DESPITE PRC PLEDGE TO SUSPEND IT
The Epoch Times managed to get Luis Ramirez (VOA) into Hanyuan County, where
the military forces of the People's Republic crushed a massive protest
against land seizures by local cadres to build a power dam. One local, who
wisely "did not want his name used," guessed the number of protestors killed
by the Communist military to be "more than 10,000".
While such a number - or any number - was "impossible to independently
verify," other locals gave "accounts of staggering death tolls." If the
number is even remotely accurate, it would be three times the estimated
number killed in Tiananmen Square in 1989; as on that fateful June 4,
"troops fired on the unarmed demonstrators."
The dam "will force 100,000 people from their homes." A roughly equal
number of protestors filled the streets of Hanyuan County and tried to shut
down dam construction. The Communists pledged to halt said construction,
but according to this report, "it is apparent that work on the dam has in
fact continued."
It should be noted that the decision to send in the military was made by
"both the central government and the Sichuan provincial authorities,"
meaning that the Hanyuan November massacre can be laid at the feet of
"reformer" Hu Jintao.
http://www.geocities.com/china_e_lob...ember2004.html