The Shanwei Massacre of December 6, 2005

This past week has seen yet another massacre in China -- this time not by the People's Liquidation Army but by the state police, opening fire with live ammo, into a crowd of civilians, à la Tiananmen Square. This time, the crowd was simply made up of helpless villagers -- farmers and fishermen of Shanwei, seeking compensation and justice for land that was illegally taken away from them to build a new power plant, generated by COAL. Get my Geography students to tell you what kind of pollution that would cause, and how many new cases of leukemia have been caused by land stolen from villagers are given to industries that pour all manner of chemicals and poisons ion the limited water supply of China. This has been brewing since May 2005. …