【禁闻】汕头海门村民前途未卜

【新唐人2011年12月27日讯】紧随“乌坎事件”上演的汕头潮阳区海门镇示威风波,到了25号下午,仍有群众继续在镇政府广场聚集,要求释放被捕村民﹔更有村民担心当局对暂停兴建电厂会出尔反尔,因此在网上号召元旦举行大规模集会。

香港《东方日报》报导,海门镇的示威风波仍然未息。海门事件中,有数十人被捕,包括一名受伤学生,但当中仅两人获释。12月25号下午2点,群众开始在镇政府广场聚集。3点半,群众已将近千人,许多便衣警察混在人群中拍照,政府也派出大量工作人员劝离。政府提出带家属去看望被捕者,遭到家属拒绝。

此外,有村民在网上号召元旦举行大规模集会继续施压,担心当局暂停兴建电厂出尔反尔。

与此同时,中共官方媒体刻意淡化事件。

乌坎、海门的抗暴事件引发了全球媒体的关注。旅美政论家陈破空表示,北非和中东民主化的浪潮让中共十分恐惧,因此这个时候中共选择对乌坎和海门民众让步,只是暂时平息民众抗争。陈破空提醒民众还是要谨剔中共可能会有秋后算账的可能。

陈破空:“比如说他们同意释放村民代表,但是他们却对嫌疑人先放后审的方式,留了一个追诉的尾巴,另外这个官方承认村民成立的临时委员会这个组织,但是官方只同意了三个月土地问题解决之后这个委员会就要解散,因此他们让步还是有限的,而且是留有尾巴的。”

汕头市委书记李锋自17号到深圳出席第五次潮商大会后,没有再公开露面。汕头代市长郑人豪上周到海门召开座谈会时,声称受李锋委托,但没有透露李锋动向。

香港《苹果日报》评论认为,长时间不公开露面,并不正常。文章猜测,有可能是到中共中央党校学习,或者身体欠佳入院,总之,对李锋来讲是避开风头。

李锋曾在中共喉舌《人民日报》大 谈“幸福汕头”,紧跟中共广东省委书记汪洋的“幸福广东”理念,其中提到汕头社会利益关系复杂、深层次矛盾凸显,因此要将各种不稳定因素消除在萌芽状态。很多汕头人无法接受李锋,新浪微博出现“李锋滚出汕头”的群组。

海门民众表示,海门镇人口有十几万人,罹患癌症的人口却高达70%,因为发电厂排出的废水严重污染海域,现在村民已经无法靠捕鱼的收入来维持家计,生活更加困难了。

海门民众 :“整个汕头地区我们的癌症率,以整个汕头地区来说的话,我们这里的癌症病从06年到现在,我们镇的癌症70%。”

这位民众说,镇政府已经答应暂时停工不建了,但是被抓的三个村民还没被释放,而他们唯一的诉求就是放人和停建电厂。

另外,有网民发出求助信,信中说网友“挪威森林”、“秀才江湖”(13261331466)和另外几个网友去广东陆丰声援乌砍,21号下午三点钟被当地国保带走后,情况不明。呼吁网民扩散转发。

新唐人记者陈汉、李庭、孙宁采访报导。

Haimen: More Protests with Uncertain Future

After the “Wukan incident”, another protest took place
in Haimen Town, Chaoyang District of Shantou.
On the afternoon of December 25, people were still gathering
on the town square, asking for the arrested villagers’ release.
Some villagers were worried whether the authorities’ promise
of suspending the power plant construction will be carried out.
Thus they made an online appeal for a large-scale assembly
on the New Year’s Day.

Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily reported,
that the demonstration incidents have not calmed down yet.
In the Haimen incident, dozens of people were arrested,
including a wounded student, but only two were released.
At 2 pm on December 25, people began to gather
on the square before the town government buildings.
At 3:30 pm, the number of the gathering people
reached nearly a thousand.
Many policemen in plain clothes have mixed
among the crowd and took pictures.
The government also sent out a lot of staff
to advise people to leave.
The authorities offered family members to visit the arrested,
however the relatives declined the offer.

In addition, some villagers called online for a large-scale
gathering on the New Year’s Day, to continue the pressure.
They are worried that the authorities’ promise to suspend
the construction of the power plant might not be fulfilled.

At the same time, Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)
official media is intentionally downplaying the incident.

However, the incidents of Wakan and Haimen’s protesting
have attracted the attention of global media.
US-based political commentator Chen Pokong said,
the wave of democratization in North Africa and the Middle East makes CCP fearful.
Therefore, CCP chose concession measures for Wukan
and Haimen, as to temporarily calm people down.
Chen Pokong reminded the public to beware of the
possibility for CCP to retaliate later.

Chen Pokong: “For example, they agreed to release
the representatives of the villagers.
However, they kept open the option of releasing them first
and putting them on trial later.
Plus, the authorities recognized the temporary committee
organization set up by the villagers, but for 3 months only.
After the problem of the land is dealt with,
the committee will be dismissed.
So their concession still has boundaries,
what’s more, they attached strings to it too.”

Li Feng, Party Secretary of CCP in Shantou City,
has not appeared in public for a while.
He was not seen since he went to Shenzhen to attend
the Fifth Chao Business Conference on December 17.
Zheng Renhao, the acting mayor of Shantou,
went to Haimen to hold a forum last week.
He said he was entrusted with his duties by Li Feng,
but didn’t reveal Li’s whereabouts.

Hong Kong’s Apple Daily comments that it’s not normal
for a politician to not appear in public for a long time.
The article speculates that he might have gone to learn
in CCP’s Central Party School, or he is in a poor health.
Whatever the reason,
Li Feng is avoiding the limelight.

Li Feng had always talked
about the “Shantou prosperity."
He closely followed the manner of “Guangdong prosperity”
by Wang Yang, CCP’s Secretary of Guangdong Province.
Li Feng mentioned that there are complicated social interests
and serious deep-seated contradictions in Shantou.
Therefore, it is necessary to get rid of various
destabilizing factors in their bud stage.
Many people in Shantou can not accept Li Feng. A group,
named “Li Feng, get out of Shantou” appeared on Sina weibo.

Haimen residents expressed their concerns about the health
of the over 100 thousand people living in Haimen Town.
Up to 70% of them suffer from some form of cancer due to
the power plant discharging wastewater and polluting the sea.
At present, the villagers can not rely on the income of fishing
to lead a normal life. And their lives are getting more difficult.

Haimen resident: “In the whole region of Shantou,
the cancer cases have gone up.
In our town alone, they went from 200 cases to 70% of
our population being affected.”

This villager said that the local government
agreed to suspend the construction of the plant.
But the three arrested villagers are not released yet. Thus now
the demands are to release them and to stop building the plant.

In addition, some netizens sent out a letter for help.

The letter states that netizens Nuowei Senlin, Xiucai Jianghu,
and few others went to Lufeng, Guangdong to support Wukan.
On December 21, they were taken away by the local security,
without more information on them being released.
Thus there are online calls to spread this news, as well as
to join the large-scale gathering on the New Year’s Day.

NTD reporters Chen Han, Li Ting and Sun Ning

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