Hundreds of Villagers in Southern China Smash Power Plant; Protest Waste Plant Construction

Go farmers, go!



On Nov. 18, more than a hundred villagers from the Weijiang River Township smashed the offices, computers, and dorms of the Nanshan Power Plant, after learning that the project is going forward despite local residents’ objections, according to the Chinese Jasmine Revolution website, a website founded by pro-democracy activists that reports on activities relating to human rights in China.

15,000 residents living downstream along the Weijiang River in Guilin City in southern China’s Guangxi Province have struggled to stop the power plant project for more than 11 years, since 2002 when the project was first approved.

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A protest over the construction of a waste disposal plant adjacent to a water reservoir led residents of Yantou village to protest en masse on Nov. 4, ending in the arrest and injury of some of them.

A sit-in protest turned ugly when the villagers, requesting a meeting with the mayor, were attacked by riot police.
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