{"id":47171,"date":"2015-05-18T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47171 "},"modified":"2015-05-18T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T22:11:00","slug":"47171-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47171","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Injured, Detained in Pitched Battle Over Railway in China\\’s Sichuan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police fire tear gas at protesters in Linshui county, Sichuan, May 17, 2015.<\/div>
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Dozens of people were injured and detained in clashes with security forces after tens of thousands of local residents took to the streets to call for a new railway line to stop in their neighborhood, authorities and local residents in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan said on Monday.<\/div>
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“More than 30 officials and police and 38 of the crowd were injured,” a government statement said after mass demonstrations in Sichuan’s Linshui county over the weekend that saw a huge security presence deployed to the area, sparking an angry reaction from previously peaceful protesters, eyewitnesses told RFA.<\/div>
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The statement, posted on the Linshui county government’s official website, blamed the violence on a “small group” of more than 100 protesters, adding that more than 40 people were detained on Saturday, and more than 20 on Sunday.<\/div>
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But it denied unconfirmed reports of deaths in the violence, adding: “not one person died.”<\/div>
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Tens of thousands of Linshui residents crowded onto the streets of the county town on Saturday morning, demanding that a planned new railway line linking Dazhou city to Chongqing pass through their county, rather than through the neighboring city of Guangan.<\/div>
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The protests continued on Sunday, as riot police and paramilitary police were drafted in to disperse the crowd, local residents said.<\/div>
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“The army came here [on Sunday],” a Linshui resident told RFA on Monday. “They even had armored vehicles, and there were ranks and ranks of them on guard, with their faces hidden, detaining people.”<\/div>
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“To tell you the truth, we are pretty angry, because they were so brutal when they beat people up. They beat them around the head, so that they were bleeding.”<\/div>
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“We have a lot of photos and video here, but we can’t post them online,” she said.<\/div>
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Another resident, who also asked to remain anonymous, said they had also seen armed paramilitary police troops alongside riot police.<\/div>
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“They had armored cars there; I saw them yesterday,” the resident said.<\/div>
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Meanwhile, a Linshui resident surnamed Hu said an estimated 200 people were detained on Saturday night alone, giving numbers far higher than those provided by the government statement.<\/div>
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