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Subject: Three Gorges Probe: March 21, 2001
THREE GORGES PROBE
March 21, 2001
Three Gorges petitioners 'held by police'
Mar. 21, 2001 -- South China Morning Post reports that
two missing farmers who helped organize petitions by
peasants being resettled to make way for the Three Gorges
dam are believed to be in police detention.
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March 21, 2001 -- South China Morning Post
Three Gorges petitioners 'held by police'
by Jasper Becker
Two missing farmers who helped organise petitions by
peasants being resettled to make way for the Three Gorges
Dam are believed to be in police detention.
Last month He Kechang called the South China Morning
Post's Beijing office to say his colleague, Wen Dingchun,
had been arrested. "More than 10 policemen went to the
house of Wen and took him away. They also seized
everything in his house on the instructions of the Party
Secretary," said Mr. He at the time.
Both men come from Gaoyang township in Yunyang
county, from where 13,000 villagers will be resettled.
Yunyang has seen a series of protests by villagers angry at
corruption they say is endemic. Mr. He said he intended to
travel to Beijing to petition the authorities, in particular the
Three Gorges Resettlement Bureau, but apparently never
reached the capital.
"He Kechang has been missing for about 10 days," said a
woman who answered the telephone at his home in
Gaoyang township. "Mr. Wen has left. All his belongings
have been taken away by the police."
Police contacted at Gaoyang said Mr. He disappeared a
month ago. "Nobody knows where he is now," a police
official said. "Have you had any contact with him?" the
official demanded, adding, "if He has provided any
materials he sent you please fax them to me."
An official with the Three Gorges Construction Committee
said he had heard nothing about the men.
Last October, Guo Shuyan, deputy director of the Three
Gorges Project Committee, said peasants' complaints would
be properly addressed. Mr. He and Mr. Wen had collected
thousands of petitions detailing bureaucratic corruption and
protests by relocated peasants.
*Also see related story: Anger at dam corruption growing*
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