For this incident, I am calling our diplomat & EPA activists to serve notice to the President of China, for his attention & resolutions into this case.
I am also calling our President George W. Bush to have a word with President Hu JinDao on this issue immediately!!
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DongShan Island - Soon These Only Found On flickr!!
I am very surprise on the respond on the issue of PX plant in Ku Riu which is 7KM away from DongShan.
Where is the men of Novell prize winners' for EPA??
Having doing lots of foot works & empty my pocket!! I am still a lone ranger in the Global Warming & EPA things.
I can only find a link on Times News. The news posted on the Chinese sites are all taken off!!
DongShan & Ku Riu is about 100km away from Taiwan, I wonder why the Taiwan & international EPA activists have not mounted any moment in supporting the Ku Riu & DongShan people who are suffering the suppression & oppression & those people that are wounded & jail by their government..etc.
As I have to go now.
I would continue the translation tomorrow.
You see even the locals who provide info to me are unable to contact.
I urge all the international EPA activists do something in support to the poor people there!!
The polluted sea & air would hit the whole world soon.
Remember, there is only one world!!
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The Ku Riu island PX project is not a straight & simple after all. If the project is allow to goes on. the after maths effects would be far & deep!!
东山的事情：
古雷半岛漳州各县城距离
云霄 ：31公里，诏安：45公里，东山：23公里，龙海：66公里， 漳州：70公里
平和：65公里 南靖：73公里，华安：119公里 海沧：77公里 厦门：81公里。
我相信FZ希望是社会稳定，但是，为了稳定，现封闭了所有的媒体传播，打记者热线一听是东山的，没有人敢出来采访。群众有人现场用手机，数码相机拍照，被发现后，手机、数码相机当场被没收，求诉无门的东山人民，用报纸抹着眼泪，更有志愿者，纷纷捐款，要将此游行进行到停止PX项目在古雷投建，游行队伍不管走到哪，累了，渴了，居住周围的群众自愿烧锅做饭，慰藉队伍。
队伍中不乏老太婆老大爷，小学生中学生，镜头一：警察上前阻截时，颤巍巍的老阿婆："年轻仔，我这把岁数，再活也活不了几年了，我是为我的子孙后代呀！"镜头二：一只有七八岁的小学生，从地上捡起一张皱巴巴的关于宣传反PX项目的小宣传单，细心抹平，平整地贴在墙上，粘好
善良的东山人确实愤怒了，他们周围四面环海，现大大小小的海产品养殖场近千家，每年占60%的东山人靠渔业而生活着，他们有他们的骄傲：可以与夏威夷媲美的海水，沙滩，千百年来几乎不受污染的空气，绿水，然而，在PX投建生产之后，谁来保证这一切不会受到影响，是政府现在说的一句和"煤气一样好管理"这样的空话吗？？
学生罢课，交通堵塞，商场停止营业，东山从没有这么的乱过，但东山人也从没这么的团结过！！！！
卢展工省委书记对厦门反PX项目游行事件评价说"PX是一个好项目，大项目，但是现在有这么多的厦门人反对，我们尊重民意，关注民生，这一定层次也说明了厦门人民的环境保护意识不断加强，这是一件好事。"那么，东山人的反对呢，须知，PX项目在漳州每个人的心里，都已是草木皆兵了。
事态已非常的恶劣，所发生的一切不是现在每一个东山人愿看到，相信也不是每一个有良心的漳州市民愿意看到，在这里，我一个平凡的东山人只能呼吁：快点站出来，各界的媒体，快点站出来，各级政府领导，要
给子民一个明确的答复。而不是钢盔铁枪的警察，防爆部队，武装警察了，跪求了！！！！
The following is the datas of Dongshan Incidents:
Ku Riu locality ( Distance in KM):
Yen Xiao 云霄 ：31公里，
ChowAun 诏安：45公里，
Dongshan 东山：23公里，
LongHai 龙海：66公里，
ZhangZhou 漳州：70公里
PingHe 平和：65公里
NanChing 南靖：73公里，
HuaAun 华安：119公里
HaiChiang 海沧：77公里
Xiamen 厦门：81公里。
I believed FuZhou (the Provincial Gov) would like to see the stability of the society. However because of stability, now gov have censor all the public medias. If you call up the press, the reporters heard that is DongShan, then no one would stand up to visit & report about the incident!!
There were public using Digital Cameras to snap the scene; once found by the police or the security protocols, it would be confiscated immediately.
It seem that DongShan people have no avenue to bring up their request to. Some Dongshan using the news paper to clean up their tears & some even donate money for the demo convoys.
Wherever they marching to, there are people offering drinks; food to the convoys.
Within the demo convoys, there are all works of life old & young. Primary to High school students. There is a image showing that, one policeman was stopping the demo people, a old lady knee down to beg the police by saying:
Young man ; I am would not be living for long in my old age; what I am doing is for our Dongshan future generations!!
Another image shown that a young student about 7-8 years old pick up a damage PX news poster; patiently pasted on the wall!!
Because the PX project; Now the simple & honors DongShan people angry; upset ; hopeless as their home for over 2K years would be destroy by the PX pollutions. Their lifeline on fisheries; tourism would totally gone!! All the beauties of the Sunshine; Blue sky; Green mountains would be gone forever.
No one can guaranty that PX plant would not polluted the area; but the gov just said, managing PX plant is just like managing LPG tank at home!! Can you believe that??
Students stop going to school; business & commercial people stop operations. DongShan people & DongShan Island have not been so mess up & so united!!
Fujian province committee secretary general Mr Lu Chan Gong said during the Xiamen PX event that:
PX is a gigantic project; good for the Xiamen people , However, now the people against it, we respect peoples' decision therefore GOV would not do it in Xieman.
The above have proved that Xieman people are highly aware the danger of PX plant & the environment issues arises. That is a good thing. Why is that a good project which Xiamen peoples' don't want it & then the GOV is forcing Ku Riu & DongShan people to accept it??
The incidents is very critical conditions; what I am asking or requesting is the various level of GOV officials; medias; Green & Sustainability activists have to come to the front & help the DongShan People.
We don't want the high handed police & reserve units using guns & weapon to point at the DongShan people!!
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
DongShan Island - Soon These Only Found On flickr!!
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Dongshan(东山) From Paradise 2 Hell Via PX Plant in Ku Riu (古雷)
Dongshan(东山) From Paradise 2 Hell Via PX Plant in Ku Riu (古雷), originally uploaded by CharlieBrown8989.
Dongshan(东山) From Paradise 2 Hell Via PX Plant in Ku Riu (古雷)
The following is the translation as promised.
Please Looks into the Dongshan People Interest on The Reason Why Against The Building of PX Plant!!
Please Looks into the Dongshan People Interest on The Reason Why Against The Building of PX Plant!!
On 2008 02 29, the simple & honors Paradise - Dongshan People are angry!!
People are carrying Banners with " Against Building PX Plant @ Ku Riu, Risk of Lives to Dongshan People" ku Riu penisular which is about 22KM off Dongshan Island.
Dongshan is just opposite Taiwan.
The groups of people put up blockages; barricades; block out the major street in their old town "DongLin"; DongLin have been a city center for Dongshan for over 2 thousand years. Which is also the home town of my late dad's.
The people requesting their county government to put off the decision to build PX plant which is 22KM away from their home island. They want their government to request their upper authority to ask Zhang Bu County to put off the decision. Since Ku Riu is under the control of Zhang Bu!!
So that this paradise island could continue their own lives!!
In principle, Dongshan county government have not authority over the Zhang Bu County government decision. However, government are used to use high pressure & high handed ways to suppress the peoples'. Therefore the riots broke out, County deputy mayor is wounded during the riots; police are torturing the people & students.
Thus one of the police petrol car is overturned by the rioters. From Mar 03, 2008 the rioters have increased to over 50 to 60K people. Rioters includes old folks; students, all works of lives. Now the riots have spread to the whole county!! It have been reported that 16 police car have been damaged; also the Government buildings glasses are broken by the rioters.
There are over 17 people wounded & 16 people were taken to county jail.
The words of the Dongshan people is that they want Blue Sky; White Clouds; They don't want PX plant;
They want the original; Beaches; White sands; Non polluted sea & water
Government saying is that only stability would bring prosperity!! If like these, how could government bring prosperity & development to Dongshan?? "PX is great project; it would generate 80Billions GDP to the Nation!! good management & control is just like managing LPG cylinder project, If within control then just like having the LPG in your family!!
Can you see how naive & stupid explanations??
If that is great project for the people & nation, why Xiamen don't want the project?? Why should Dongshan people accept the project??
Dongshan cannot compare with Xiamen in evconomy & culture. What Dongshan people want tis safe guard their life line in fisheries; tourism, clean environments. Dongshan people don't understand what is GDP!!
Ku Riu the nearest part to Dongshan is only 7KM away from Dongshan, what if the PX leakage of pollutants & ... then Dongshan people would be all sending to hell!!
According the the International EPA requirement, such industries must be 100miles away from the populated area. But now such requirement is not observed by authority!!
To be continue......
Uploaded by CharlieBrown8989 on 6 Mar 08, 7.22PM PST.
Monday, March 03, 2008
Dongshan Island - China Riots
Back in June, the people of the coastal city of Xiamen came out onto the streets for two successive days to protest plans to allow a billion-dollar chemical plant to be built within city limits. It was an unprecedented but entirely peaceful demonstration and, after considerable twists and turns, eventually resulted in the municipal government deciding to relocate the project to an island about 100 kilometers to the south of Xiamen. At the time, we noted that the authorities would have a hard time controlling the impulse to demonstrate in other cities. Sure enough, there were protests in Shanghai (over a planned train project) and elsewhere. They were entirely peaceful and relatively small, involving only a few hundred people. Now however, it looks as though that same chemical plant that caused the trouble in Xiamen is sparking large protest again, this time violent, with one or more protesters possibly dying. Reports remain sketchy—material on the internet in China is rapidly blocked or deleted—but it's now clear that many thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of residents living near the proposed site of the relocated plant have been showing their displeasure at the plan.
One post entitled, "New development on PX Project: Protest at Dongshan Island" on a Sohu.com (a popular portal) bulletin board mysteriously survived three days of censorship. Although the authorities never officially announced the plan to relocate the chemical plant to Gulei Peninsula in Zhangzhou City, the local opposition to the project was very strong. On Dongshan Island, which is next to the proposed project site, that opposition burst into the open on Feb.29.
"On Feb. 29th, the peaceful island witnessed a historic breakout by the residents. Thousands of people blocked the main roads in town and stopped all vehicles leaving for the government district of Dongshan County", the post recounts. And this was only the prelude. On March 1, "thousands of motorcycles, vans, buses, and even more people took to the streets", and an "even bigger demonstration has been planned for the next day". According to the posts, several police cars were destroyed by "furious protestors", and severe injuries occurred on both sides. A death toll of 1 or 3 is cited in the follow-up posts.
With a population of only 220,000, Dongshan Island mostly depends on tourism and the fishing industry for its local GDP. "We are diligent, honest and law abiding people. We put up with constant military exercises, we make a living by hard, honest labor, and what more do we have to give?" says an angry poster, "We can't afford to live in Xiamen with the salary we make, and now we are driven away from Dongshan as well! If we put up with the pollution from PX and endure the consequences, how can we explain to future generations?"
The local Dongshan authorities responded to the protest on the morning of the 2nd with an "Open letter to Dongshan citizens", broadcast only on local TV. Internet posts on the riot are quickly deleted as soon as they appear, but bits and pieces of surviving information indicate that the government's open letter--which warned against further protests--failed to mollify the demonstrators.
I shall give more information tomorrow!!
