{"id":5559,"date":"2005-12-10T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T03:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/10\/villagers-tell-of-lethal-attack-by-chinese-forces-on-protesters-howard-french\/"},"modified":"2005-12-10T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T03:42:57","slug":"villagers-tell-of-lethal-attack-by-chinese-forces-on-protesters-howard-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/villagers-tell-of-lethal-attack-by-chinese-forces-on-protesters-howard-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers Tell of Lethal Attack  by Chinese Forces on Protesters &#8211; Howard French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/10\/international\/asia\/11china-web.html\">From The New York Times<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFour days after a lethal assault on protesters by paramilitary forces, a village in southern China remained under heavy police lockdown on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the village, Dongzhou, interviewed by telephone from this nearby city, said the police continued to make arrests and bar outsiders from their hamlet.The authorities have still not commented in any detail on the incident, in which villagers said as many as 20 residents of Dongzhou were shot and killed by security forces on Tuesday night as they protested plans for a power plant, in the deadliest use of force by Chinese authorities against ordinary citizens since the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. Residents of Dongzhou said at least 42 people were missing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also,<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2005-12\/10\/content_3904849.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Incited villagers attack power plant in Guangdong<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\"> from Xinhua;<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;color:#315aa6;font-size:16pt;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span>The map of Dongzhou is <a href=\"http:\/\/asnic.utexas.edu\/~bennett\/__map\/91~Dongzhou.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=us&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;ncl=http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/12\/10\/china.protest.ap\/\" target=\"_blank\">This topic on the Web<\/a>, via Google News.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/China\" rel=\"tag\">China<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Dongzhou\" rel=\"tag\">Dongzhou<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Shanwei\" rel=\"tag\">Shanwei<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: Four days after a lethal assault on protesters by paramilitary forces, a village in southern China remained under heavy police lockdown on Saturday. Residents of the village, Dongzhou, interviewed by telephone from this nearby city, said the police continued to make arrests and bar outsiders from their hamlet.The authorities have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,5,1051],"tags":[2555,5944],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society","category-top-article","tag-dongzhou","tag-dongzhou-killings","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Villagers Tell of Lethal Attack by Chinese Forces on Protesters - Howard French<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/12\/villagers-tell-of-lethal-attack-by-chinese-forces-on-protesters-howard-french\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Villagers Tell of Lethal Attack by Chinese Forces on Protesters - Howard French\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From The New York Times: Four days after a lethal assault on protesters by paramilitary forces, a village in southern China remained under heavy police lockdown on Saturday. 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