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ChiComs Crackdown on Small Town Police with Shootings.

Pajamas Media highlites an AP story from China Maybe they will be able to live up to our expectations.
It looks like Red Communist China is living up to her reputatation of repression. Authorities shot into a crowd protesting the goverments takeover of land for a windpower project.

During the demonstration Tuesday in Dongzhou, a village in southern Guangdong province, thousands of people gathered to protest the amount of money offered by the government as compensation for land to be used to construct a wind power plant.

Police started firing into the crowd and killed several people, mostly men, villagers reached by telephone said Friday. The death toll ranged from two to 10, they said, and many remained missing.

Firing into crowds to quell civil unrest in Tiananmen Square seemed to have resulted in getting trading conciderations from the US. Perhaps the Chinese are looking for more than a "Most Favorable Trade partner" status from the US.

Some might suspect that this is an isolated incident, but it sounds like the ChiComs aren't through yet.
All the villagers reached by The Associated Press said they were nervous and scared, and most did not want to be identified for fear of retribution. One man said the situation was still "tumultuous."

A 14-year-old girl said a local official visited the village Friday and called the shootings "a misunderstanding."

"He said he hoped it wouldn't become a big issue," the girl said by telephone. "This is not a misunderstanding. I am afraid. I haven't been to school in days."

She added: "Come save us."

Another villager said there were at least 10 deaths.

"The riot police are gathered outside our village. We've been surrounded," she said, sobbing. "Most of the police are armed. We dare not go out of our home."

"We are not allowed to buy food outside the village. They asked the nearby villagers not to sell us goods," the woman said. "The government did not give us proper compensation for using our land to build the development zone and plants. Now they come and shoot us. I don't know what to say."

One woman said an additional 20 people were wounded.

"They gathered because their land was taken away and they were not given compensation," she said. "The police thought they wanted to make trouble and started shooting."

She said there were several hundred police with guns in the roads outside the village Friday. "I'm afraid of dying. People have already died."

They still have the town surrounded and isolated. Perhaps to starve them out?

Update: 16:52
It looks like this might be even bigger than first reported, 70 Dead and the town is surrounded by tanks.

posted by Liberty @ 9:03 AM