{"id":63728,"date":"2016-05-07T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=63728 "},"modified":"2016-05-07T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T22:35:00","slug":"63728-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=63728","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Police Clamp Down on Tibetan Mining Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2016\/18\/201656E52DB8FE-583C-4039-B4CC-A0D103111B48_w640_r1_s.jpg\" alt=\"201656E52DB8FE-583C-4039-B4CC-A0D103111B48_w640_r1_s.jpg (640&#215;360)\" \/><br \/>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">FILE &#8211; Dead fish are seen at a pond on the outskirts of Wuhan, Hubei province, April 21, 2009. Another massive fish kill in China has sparked a Tibetan protest against mining operations.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">May 06, 2016 6:05 PM<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A line of Chinese riot police marched through a Tibetan protest against mining operations this week in Lhagang township, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Cellphone video circulated online captures the sound of people wailing Wednesday at the site of a mass fish kill, purportedly caused by the mining operation that Chinese police had come to guard.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;This is how things are &#8212; the nation&#8217;s military is sent [on us] to crack down on us,&#8221; said one man whose face is not visible.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">WATCH: Activists Protest Mining Operations<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/english.share.voanews.eu\/flashembed.aspx?t=vid&amp;id=3318793&amp;w=640&amp;h=363&amp;skin=embeded\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\"><\/iframe><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;This is how things are, brothers and sisters of Tibetans,&#8221; said another. &#8220;This is what Chinese do!&#8221;<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Locals gathered Wednesday after a massive number of fish were found dead in the Lichu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Exiled Tibetans tell VOA that their local contacts say the fish kill occurred after a Chinese company restarted lithium-mining operations in the area. Mining at the location had been postponed since 2013, after an official investigation linked pollution from the operation with a mass die-off of aquatic life.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Pollution at the site also triggered a die-off of fish and some domestic animals in 2011, prompting protests.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 2014, three civilians petitioned Beijing to issue a ruling on the incidents, asking officials to ban mining in the area.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The same mining company involved in all three incidents reportedly returned to the area April 11.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/chinese-police-clamp-down-tibetan-mining-protest\/3319093.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For detail please visit here<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Cellphone video circulated online captures the sound of people wailing Wednesday at the site of a mass fish kill, purportedly caused by the mining operation that Chinese police had come to guard.&quot;This is how things are &amp;#8212; the nation&#39;s military is sent [on us] to crack down on us,&quot; said one man whose face is not visible.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&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-63728","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\/63728","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=63728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}