Toxic Fumes Spark Protests in Beijing

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In Beijing last weekend, locals in the Chaoyang district held mass protests. They stopped traffic for up to three hours in some areas—something unusual in a city under such tight police control.

They're complaining about the foul smell coming from a large garbage disposal plant in the heavily populated urban area.

Bloggers on the Chinese website Boxun.com say the burning garbage from the plant's incinerator is releasing fumes with large amounts of poisonous dioxin, a banned pollutant by the Stockholm Convention. Dioxin is a carcinogen believed to raise the risk of cancer by up to 40 times.

New apartment buildings are being built less than 600 yards south of the garbage disposal facility. About one million residents in the area have appealed to local authorities over the years, but no progress has been made.

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population control

[meinchi]

i bet that all the chinese government is going to do is to make those citizens shut up, and if they dont listen, they'll use violence, as if they were animals, thats the way the chinese handle their issues about their lack of human rights