A Video Clip of Haimen, Tuesday (Dec 20)

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(1) China: 30,000 Haimen Residents "Occupy" Public Highway In Protest Of Coal-Fired Power Plants. YouTube.com, uloaded by MOXNEWSd0tC0M on Dec 21, 2011 (length: 5:47).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vdncZbkmsw

(2)Lisa Yee, Video: Police Use Tear Gas on Protesters. CNN, Dec 22, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/wo ... html?iref=allsearch
("Video from CNN affiliate i-CABLE News showed the massing protesters and confrontations with police in Haimen Thursday.")


My comment:
(a) Only the first 1:06 showing "amateur video Tuesday" is new and about Haimen, and the rest is about Wukan (around last Saturday when the funeral service was held for Mr Xue).
(b) I-Cable  有線寬頻 (based in Hong Kong)
http://cablenews.i-cable.com/webapps/index/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-CABLE
( an internet Service Provider in Hong Kong; [starting] in 1999)

(2) Adrienne Mong and Bo Gu, A Contagion of Conflict in China?  MSNBC, Dec 22, 2011.
http://behindthewall.msnbc.msn.c ... f-conflict-in-china

My comment:
(a) This report is a detailed description of events on Wednesday and, in particular, Thursday, leaving no doubt that clashes did occur on teh latter day despite heavy police presence.
(b) The report also says, "At least three other pockets of unrest had flared up in districts of a large city near Wukan:  two of the groups were protesting similar examples of illegal land seizures and a third, the largest outbreak of demonstrations, was over government plans to build a coal-fired power plant in Haimen."

It just we did not know about two other places with land grievances.

(3) 周永康：解决社会矛盾在萌芽状态. BBC Chinese, Dec 22, 2011 (1 hr ago).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... _zhouyongkang.shtml

My comment: This latest report from BBC is nothing new, perhaps except the first two paragraphs.