{"id":3060,"date":"2008-04-22T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T05:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/activism\/china-police-shoot-two-in-village-land-protest\/3060\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T05:49:41","slug":"china-police-shoot-two-in-village-land-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/china-police-shoot-two-in-village-land-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"China police &#8220;shoot two&#8221; in village land protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"2\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/chinapolice.jpg\" hspace=\"2\" alt=\"chinapolice.jpg\" title=\"chinapolice.jpg\" \/>HONG KONG (Reuters)\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China&#8217;s number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing, terrified of social unrest ahead of the Olympics in August, has cracked down on recent protests over the arbitrary use of land by powerful local interests.<\/p>\n<p>Ming Pao cited unidentified sources as saying riot police in the southwestern province of Yunnan were sent in on Sunday after almost 100 villagers clashed with Zijin Mining workers.<\/p>\n<p>The villagers were angry with offers of compensation and relocations when Zijin was trying to buy up small mines in the area, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>An unidentified police official told the newspaper the shooting was in self-defense and that just one person was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The paper quoted a Zijin Mining official as saying the company&#8217;s investments in the area were in accordance with local rules and regulations. He was unaware of the exact situation in Yunnan.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Donny Kwok; Editing by Nick Macfie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (Reuters)\u00a0| Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China&#8217;s number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Tuesday. Beijing, terrified of social unrest ahead of the Olympics in August, has cracked down on recent protests over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614,18],"tags":[64],"class_list":{"0":"post-3060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}