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China's Hidden Hanyuan Incident |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / FEATURE |
| Author: Edward Lanfranco |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 1,179 Words, 7,749 Characters |
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The banks of the Dadu River have been the site of desperate stands and tragic deaths in Chinese history from the ancient Three Kingdoms period eighteen hundred years ago to a couple of months ago.
Information began trickling out of southwestern China's Sichuan Province in early November concerning clashes involving between twenty thousand and one hundred thousand villagers versus police, paramilitary, and military units at the Pubugou hydroelectric dam project in Hanyuan County. Reports vary as to the number of people killed, injured, and arrested in the uprising and its immediate aftermath. Despite the imposition of an official news blackout, United Press International was able to travel to the region and report about the incident.
The county of about 340,000 people is located two ...
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...energy development taking place in the absence of honest local government and effective institutional mechanisms for protecting the rights and interests of its most vulnerable citizens. The Hanyuan incident was the largest known disturbance in the last sixty days as a spate of major protests swept across the country. We may never know what truly transpired.
© 2004 United Press International
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