In what was China’s largest mass killing in response to a protest since Tiananmen Square in 1989, it is estimated that hundreds are dead. This is not getting much MSM coverage, although it should.
Hugh Hewitt did pick up this NY Times story and comments:
Given the outrage over waterboarding and Abu Ghraib, will there be a proprotionate denunciation of this massacre, and the system it implies lies behind it?
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Obviously there has not been any outrage at all.
Here are some details from the article:
Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said that as many as 20 people had been killed by paramilitary police in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests that have roiled the Chinese countryside. Villagers said that as many as 50 other residents remain unaccounted for since the shooting. It is the largest known use of force by security forces against ordinary citizens since the killings around Tiananmen Square in 1989. That death toll remains unknown, but is estimated to be in the hundreds.
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The villagers in Dongzhou said their dispute with the authorities had begun with a conflict over plans by a power company to build a coal-fired generator in their area, which they feared would cause heavy pollution. Farmers said they had not been compensated for the use of the land for the plant. Others said plans to reclaim land by filling in a local bay as part of the power plant project were unacceptable because people have made their livelihoods there as fishermen for generations.
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Early reports from the village said the police opened fire only after villagers began throwing homemade bombs and other missiles, but villagers reached by telephone today denied this, saying that a few farmers had launched ordinary fireworks at the police as part of their protest.
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Villagers said that in addition to the regular security forces, the authorities had enlisted thugs from local organized crime groups to help put down the demonstration.
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Now one has to wonder, if the protesters were throwing bombs, then there would be some dead police officers right? No report of any.
China is the host of the 2008 Olympic games! You would think that more people would have something to say about this.
update (12/12/2005 11:02PM ET): The Gateway Pundit has more details.