Chinese police 'shoot protesters'

Chinese armed police are reported to have opened fire on protesters in the southern province of Guangdong, shooting dead at least two people.
Witnesses told US broadcaster Radio Free Asia the incident happened after hundreds of police tried to disperse up to 1,000 demonstrators near Shanwei.

Protesters were angry because they had not been compensated for land taken by the government to build a power plant.

The incident is the latest in a series of such disputes in rural China.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4507130.stm

and that is in the headline about it being made legal.


Dear BBC: You could save a lot of printing costs by laying off the implied "so-called" key. Oh yeah, and a lot of eyerolling by people tired of your shit, too.

I can vaguely, disgustedly, KINDA understand why they'd do it to gay marriage, but what's so-called about shooting protestors? The shooting? The protestors?

ie spoken words, "Thats what quotes are for."I said to myself.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

If the police did in fact shoot the protestors then it doesn't need to be in quotes. If the news org. hasn't confirmed the story they could say "reportedly".

for outsourcing jobs. Here, America, is what the Corporatists want, license to silence dissent, any way they can.

Sounds like * to me.

For ordinary citizens, people who aren't members of the government or economic or military elite, living under a far authoritarian left system is no different than living under a far right system. In China people are having land taken for government projects. Here our Supreme Court has said it's OK for govenment to take peoples' land for economic development. The result is the same for the people who are displaced.

Both extremes push patriotism ad nauseum. Both take personal choices away from individuals. Both give all power to the central government.

ETA my Subject line is a quote from a former coworker, who is Chinese.

The Great Walmart of China

How long 'til protestor shootings become acceptable here?

Kent State, Greensboro, that woman in Boston last year, gunning down the Black Panthers etc. etc.

to ALL!

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/366/16612_China.html

Locals say that up to 20 people were killed with automatic fire

The Chinese authorities acknowledged the fact of killing three and wounding eight people during the suppression of a protest action in the country's south.

A large group of villagers from the province of Guangdong gathered near a newly-built electric power plant on Tuesday last week. The people intended to set out their protests against the low compensations for land withdrawn from them during the construction of the station. Several people were killed as a result of the clash with the police.

Xinhua news agency reported that the masterminds of the mutiny were acting in an unseemly way. The first attack on the electric station took place on December 5. The generation of electric power was suspended for seven hours as a result of the assault. The next day, about 170 people wielding knives, sticks, incendiary bottles and bombs organized another riot. The people used their arsenal in action attacking the electric station. They even managed to set the building on fire and damage several mechanisms. The police put down the mutiny very quickly; two of the attackers were arrested
more...

The Chineese workers are getting extremely angry...My heart goes out to them...

"People's protests against corruption, exactions and withdrawal of farm lands have become frequent..."

We had to get it from Pravda.

Their only form of redress to government theft is to attack. And perhaps twenty are dead. I wonder when our freedom president will be striving to bring Democracy to China?

I wonder also what the pollution controls will be on the electric plants being built.

American corporations don't see any profit in foreign news coverage. It's easier to cut overhead and just publish releases from government sources and right wing corporate lobby groups.

Oh yes - the Chinese government blocks "objectionable" websites. That is what they think of when you say "pollution control".