Tuesday, April 7, 2015

2015-04-08 CHINA: Violence and death in an anti-pollution demonstration

2015-04-08 CHINA: Violence and death in an anti-pollution demonstration
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‪#‎6A‬ ‪#‎Naima‬ ‪#‎China‬ - One person get killed by police and more than 50 were arrested after some 2,000 police, using rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons, put down a protest by villagers against pollution caused by a coal mine.
The protesters took to the streets to protest against a chemical processing zone they said was polluting farmland and grazing land.
Inner Mongolia has seen sporadic unrest since 2011 when the vast northern region was rocked by protests after an ethnic Mongol herder was killed by a truck after taking part in demonstrations against pollution .

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