{"id":42314,"date":"2014-09-18T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=42314 "},"modified":"2014-09-18T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T14:09:00","slug":"42314-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=42314","title":{"rendered":"Six Held After Pollution Protests in Two Chinese Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smoke is discharged from chimneys at an oil refining and chemical plant in China’s Shandong province, Feb. 9, 2014.<\/div>
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Chinese authorities are holding at least six people following clashes with residents angry over chemical pollution in separate protests in Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces, protesters said on Wednesday.<\/div>
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Police clashed with angry protesters following a protest in Sichuan’s Dujiangyan township on Tuesday, while residents of Zhejiang’s Chongkuang township said police have detained six local residents who tried to stop construction work beginning on a planned chemical plant near their homes.<\/div>
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“They blocked the street for more than two hours,” an eyewitness and Chongkuang resident who declined to be named told RFA.<\/div>
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“The traffic couldn’t move anywhere, or get past.”<\/div>
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“There were about 30 or 40 of them … The main thing was they were protesting about [potential] pollution from the factory.”<\/div>
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“Then, the higher-ups sent the armed police in,” he said.<\/div>
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A local village official from the ruling Chinese Communist Party surnamed Chen said local residents were “making a fuss over nothing,” however.<\/div>
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“There’s no reason for them to make trouble,” Chen said. “The confrontation was over the extension of power supply lines to the site, but that is a back-up power line for the people in our village to use.”<\/div>
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“Some individuals in our village incited some old ladies to face off with the government,” he added.<\/div>
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Clash<\/div>
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Meanwhile, in Puyang township near Sichuan’s Dujiangyan, more than 100 villagers clashed with police over a waste water treatment plant they say is polluting the environment near their homes.<\/div>
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One photo posted to social media from the scene showed a police vehicle overturned, with the words “Police are beating people” printed on it.<\/div>
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“More than 100 people had gathered there, so they called in a lot of police, who started beating up local people,” an eyewitness who declined to be named told RFA on Wednesday.<\/div>
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“They overturned a police vehicle, and when the police arrived, they didn’t say a word, but ripped down the [protesters’] tents and smashed up their tables,” he said.<\/div>
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“Then they protected themselves with shields, and went over and started beating people up.”<\/div>
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Another eyewitness said her elderly mother had been attacked by riot police.<\/div>
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“My mother is very old, but they still beat her up like this, so of course she’s in a bad way now,” she said. “But my brother is even more seriously hurt, with injuries to his head and back.”<\/div>
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“We are demanding that the government pay the medical bills.”<\/div>
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Call for relocation<\/div>
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A Dujiangyan resident surnamed Xu said local people were demanding that the waste-treatment plant relocate.<\/div>
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“They are still there protesting,” she said on Wednesday. “There are large numbers of police there as well.”<\/div>
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She said protests had recurred frequently around the plant since it was built.<\/div>
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“There are often villagers there [protesting],” Xu said. “It’s happened a few times now.”<\/div>
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