Police fired tear gas to break up demonstrations yesterday against a proposed power plant in a southern China town, where protests have escalated into clashes with police this week and officials tried to calm tempers by suspending the project.
Riot police were out in force and blocked entrances to Haimen, aiming tear gas canisters at lines of protesters on motorbikes to quell the latest outbreak of unrest in the southern province of Guangdong, an economic powerhouse.
Haimen, a coastal town of 120,000 people, is about 130km (81 miles) east of Wukan, where a 10-day siege of villagers protesting against a “land grab” ended on Wednesday after the provincial government brokered a deal.
Protests in China have become relatively common over corruption, pollution, wages and land grabs that local-level officials justify in the name of development. Chinese experts put the number of “mass incidents”, as such protests are known, at about 90,000 a year in recent years.
IT WILL SOON BE GETTING MUCH WORSE. AND
THEY KNOW IT. STAY TUNED...
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