Crossfire War: Human Rights Campaigners Still Under Attack

By Willard Payne

East Asia Theatre: Shandong - Guangdong Provinces; Activists - Human Rights Campaigners Still Under Attacks - Harassment

Night Watch: SHANDONG - GUANGDONG PROVINCE - Warnings of more and larger protests are being made as a new pattern develops in attacks against human rights campaigners and lawyers representing displaced people in their property disputes as reported by Reuters. [Swissinfo]

The new pattern is the hiring, by industrial services or local officials of plainclothes police or thugs instead of using the uniformed police, which could obviously link the harassment to the provincial government. Two of the most recent cases were in Shandong province, along China's eastern coast and Guangdong province, China's wealthiest, where Hong Kong is located, and where most of the investment has been concentrated.

A local activist said that in the case of Shandong province supporters of the beaten activist staged violent demonstrations Sunday and that the chances of larger demonstrations are very real, sooner of later. He added that more and more people are tired of being treated like animals.

The Central Goverment, Beijing is an impotent spectator. It is only concerned with its own private economic arrangements and putting on the appearance of being the government.

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