{"id":29230,"date":"2012-08-18T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=29230 "},"modified":"2012-08-18T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T14:49:00","slug":"29230-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=29230","title":{"rendered":"Protesters in Tibet Fired upon by Chinese Law Enforcement, Killing 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">A U.S. broadcaster says police in Tibet have shot and killed a demonstrator and detained six others who were protesting a power plant that locals suspect is a covert mining operation.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">Radio Free Asia says police used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse the approximately 1,000 protesters who gathered Wednesday in Choeten, a small town in Tibet&#8217;s Markham county.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">The broadcaster quotes Lobsang Palden, a Tibetan monk in South India with contacts in the region, as saying a protester identified only as Nyima was killed.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">RFA said Thursday a Chinese company began building a power plant on a forested mountainside earlier this year but locals believe it is a mine that will harm the environment.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; \">The phone for police in Markham, known in Chinese as Mangkang, rang unanswered.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">Read <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/china-police-fire-protesters-tibet-killed-17016937#.UC0Nzd1lQmU\"><strong><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">original article<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt; \">. &nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Using tear gas and live ammunition, police fired upon a crowd estimated to be about 1,000 Tibetans, who were protesting the building of a power plant. &amp;nbsp;Locals feared the environmental impact of the plant. &amp;nbsp;One Tibetan was killed and six others were also detained.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}