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| Subject: Pigs Open Fire At Tibetan Serfs Protesting Cement Factory Pollution Mon Jun 21, 2010 3:25 am | |
| Police opened fire on Tibetans at a cement factory in the Tibetan area of Amdo (Labrang in Gansu) on Saturday (May 15) after local villagers, worried about pollution from the factory, started to rebuild a road that had been closed by the expansion of the factory. Fifteen people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds or injuries from beatings by police, although no one was killed, according to an exile Tibetan source in contact with Tibetans in the area.
Pictures sent from Tibet depict armed police in riot gear massing outside the factory (see: http://www.savetibet.org/media-center/ict-news-reports/police-open-fire-tibetans-protesting-cement-factory-pollution), which is in Madang Township, Labrang (Chinese: Xiahe) County in Gansu Province, the Tibetan area of Amdo.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20100517174911zzzz.nb/topstory.html |
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