20 NIMBYs Dead in Clash with Police in Eminent Domain Dispute (AP)
Police fired into a crowd, killing between 10 and 20 villagers protesting property confiscation and the loss of agricultural land for the construction of a wind power generating facility in China.
December 15, 2005
An eminent-domain dispute turned violent this week when around 20 protesters were shot and killed by police. The story was quickly silenced and Dongzhou, a village in China's southern Guangdong province, was sealed off.
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, reports the Associated Press in a story run by USA Today and others. Police fired into Tuesday's crowd, killing between 10 and 20 protesters, and wounding as many as 20 others.
The long-standing dispute also involves the loss of essential agricultural resources in the construction of a wind power generating facility.
Guangdong Province is slated to have three generating stations: a coal-fired plant, a wave power plant and a wind farm. It already has a large wind farm on an offshore island, with 25 turbines, according to AP.
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