{"id":46593,"date":"2015-04-15T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46593 "},"modified":"2015-04-15T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T23:32:00","slug":"46593-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46593","title":{"rendered":"Police Detain \\’At Least 10\\’ in Clashes With Pollution Protesters in China\\’s Guangdong"},"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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Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have detained at least 10 people following clashes between police and local residents protesting pollution from a nearby ironworks, ethnic minority residents of Daying village near Qingyuan city said on Wednesday.<\/div>
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At least 10 people were injured after riot police were sent in to disperse a crowd of protesters who had blocked the entry to the Mingfeng Pipe Fittings Products factory for several days, members of the local Yao ethnic minority told RFA.<\/div>
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“They behaved as if they were going after criminals,” local resident Hai Shu said. “A lot of people saw the police beating up an elderly guy over 60.”<\/div>
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“They pinned him to the floor like a criminal suspect, and he had a black eye and a bloody nose and face,” Hai said.<\/div>
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“Four of them dragged him into their vehicle and held him down with their boots; he wasn’t allowed to move an inch,” he said.<\/div>
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Local residents say that pollution from the iron plant in nearby Yao’an township has gotten progressively worse since it opened three years ago.<\/div>
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Environmental officials have visited the area to take samples, but no results have been made public, they said.<\/div>
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“One village doesn’t have enough water, so they have to use water from the river, and 50 to 60 people had diarrhea and vomiting,” Hai said.<\/div>
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“Also, all the duck eggs around here near the river are all very red inside.”<\/div>
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Hai said the villagers suspect the plant of sending toxic effluent into the river, just 10 meters away.<\/div>
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“There is also horrible smoke that covers the sky, and we can often smell it in the evenings,” Hai said. “It makes people dizzy; it must be poisonous.”<\/div>
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River ‘severely polluted’<\/div>
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A second local resident surnamed Liao said local people are convinced that the plant has left the nearby river severely polluted.<\/div>
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“I don’t think it could pass environmental tests,” Liao said. “If these plants passed the tests, then they wouldn’t stick them out here in the back of beyond.”<\/div>
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An official who answered the phone at the Yao’an township government offices said the plant operates within legal guidelines.<\/div>
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“The government takes this very seriously, and we are following this incident,” the official said. “But I can’t say much more because we haven’t had the test results back yet.”<\/div>
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Repeated calls to the Mingfeng factory rang unanswered during office hours on Wednesday. Online information showed the 20,000 square-meter plant opened in 2009, and manufactures a range of cast-iron parts.<\/div>
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A local resident surnamed Tan said the river water exudes a foul stench, and that nearby well water had also given people serious gastrointestinal symptoms.<\/div>
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