[greenyes] Chinese People Protest Pollution

["Peter Anderson" <anderson@no.address>]

NY TIMES

April 14, 2005
Rural Chinese Riot as Police Try to Halt Pollution Protest
By JIM YARDLEY

EIJING, April 13 - Thousands of people rioted Sunday in a village in 
southeastern China, overturning police cars and driving away officers who 
had tried to stop elderly villagers from protesting against pollution from 
nearby factories, witnesses said Wednesday.
By Wednesday afternoon, the witnesses say, crowds convened in the village, 
Huaxi, in Zhejiang Province to gawk at a stunning tableau of destroyed 
police cars and shattered windows. Police officers were reported to be 
barring reporters from the scene, but local people reached by telephone said 
villagers controlled the riot area.
"The villagers will not give up if there is no concrete action to move the 
factories away," said a Mr. Lu, a villager who said he had witnessed part of 
the confrontation. "The crowd is growing. There are at least 50,000 or 
60,000 people." He would not give his full name.
Other villagers gave substantially smaller crowd estimates. But they agreed 
on the broad outlines of a clash that came after villagers say they had 
tried in vain for two years to curb pollution from chemical plants in a 
nearby industrial park.
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