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Chinese Police Quash Protest Over Land Rights

While much media attention has focused on the ongoing crackdown on Chinese activists and writers, another protest has been crushed in a village in Yunnan Province. About 2000 villagers have been protesting for the past five days against their forced relocation to make way for a hydroelectric plant; paramilitary police dispersed the protesters today, according to the Wall Street Journal: The villag