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Chinese police ‘shoot protesters’
Chinese
armed police are reported to have opened fire on protesters in the
southern province of Guangdong, shooting dead at least two people.
Witnesses
told US broadcaster Radio Free Asia the incident happened after
hundreds of police tried to disperse up to 1,000 demonstrators near
Shanwei.
Protesters were angry because they had not been compensated for land taken by the government to build a power plant.
The incident is the latest in a series of such disputes in rural China.
Police
and local government officials have refused to comment on the latest
incident, which took place in Dongzhou village, near Shanwei.
Protests
by villagers over issues such as land seizures, corruption and
pollution have become more common in China in recent years.
One of
the most prominent such demonstrations, earlier this year, took place
in the village of Taishi, also in Guangdong province.
Villagers
accused Taishi’s chief of embezzling public funds in a deal involving
the sale of a large tract of village land. The stand-off between locals
and security forces lasted several weeks.
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