Chris at the left-wing AmericaBlog found this story
China Secretly Executes Anti-Dam Protester
Chinese officials have secretly executed a demonstrator who took part in a massive protest in 2004 against a hydro-electric dam in the south-western province of Sichuan, lawyers and family members said yesterday.
In a grim postscript to the summer of rural unrest that overtook China two years ago, Chen Tao was executed for “deliberately killing” a riot policeman during the demonstration, when 100,000 farmers staged a sit-in against the building of the 186-metre-high Pubugou dam on the Dadu river in Hanyuan county. The dam was set to flood thousands of people out of their homes and there were complaints that compensation was inadequate.
He noted that the family and the press only found out about Chen Tao’s execution AFTER it happened.
Jabberin’ John Avarosis then updates Chris’ post with this
Then again, a lot of this case doesn’t sound any different that what we do, now.
Yes, because Cindy Sheehan has been jailed and silenced for so long after camping out by the Bush residence in Texas a couple years back. And no one ever heard from Joe Wilson after his report from Niger. Poor Jimmeh Cahtah has been in a coma since his beating, supposedly by muggers, in 2003. And although it was strange for Michael Moore to die of a heart attack so young, science has shown that people with weight issues do die young.
Oh, wait….
Why does this guy have to self-nominate himself for this category so often?