【新唐人2011年9月19日讯】以“钱塘江大潮”闻名的浙江海宁连续3天发生群体事件,上万民众抗议“晶科能源公司”污染引发癌症,一些村民和两名记者遭到暴打,愤怒的民众打了当地政府领导,掀翻4辆警车,大批特警施放催泪弹清场,网上传言十多人死伤。维权人士指出,中共已把民众逼到了生存的悬崖边。
“晶科能源有限公司”由香港“柏嘉科技公司”全资创办,是在美国上市公司,生产太阳能硅片、电池片等产品,销售到欧美亚20多个国家,生产基地位于浙江海宁和江西上饶,公司员工总数1万多人,占地3900多亩。
位于浙江海宁市袁花镇红晓村的“晶科能源公司”,排放污水和有害气体,附近运河水面死鱼成群。当地村民体检发现数十人患上癌症、白血病。发帖透露消息的孙姓村民已被公安拘留,说他散布谣言。
红晓村9月15号有村民死亡,村民们人心惶惶,他们聚集在“晶科公司”门口讨说法,一些村民遭到公司保安追打,当晚公司门口聚集了数千人抗议。
村民陈先生:“有一个老太太她是卖菜的,然后她就跪在那里跟他们说:‘你们就把厂搬走吧,我现在种的菜都卖不掉了。’然后市长正好赶来,跟她说:‘你这么老了,你都还来闹事。’边上的群众听了都比较气愤,然后就把那个市长揍了一下。”
《新华社》引述海宁市政府通报说,15号晚7点半,500多名群众聚集在“晶科公司”门前抗议,部分人员冲进公司,掀翻8辆汽车,部分办公用品及财物受损。
第二天,又有大批村民聚集在“晶科公司”门口,堵路抗议。浙江电视台《钱江频道》的两名记者张俊和赵挺,来到“晶科公司”采访,结果被十多人打伤,摄像机被砸坏。
《钱江频道》主持:“作为一个有着正常情绪的人,我代表我个人,送给这个“晶科能源”一句‘国骂’:彻头彻尾的混蛋,你们什么东西,还没进化完全的野蛮人吗?我骂他们不仅仅是因为我们的同仁们受了伤,《钱江频道》的采访受到了阻碍,更是因为正义受了伤,真相受了伤。”
《中央社》引述大陆网友的消息说,16号晚聚集人数近万。也有网上消息说“估计有2万多人”。当局调派1、2千特警、防暴警察,用警棍、催泪弹驱逐人群,警民爆发激烈冲突,4辆警车被掀翻,网上传言十多人死伤。警方拘捕了20人,现场戒严,信息被封锁。
杭州维权人士邹巍:“这反映着当局一个僵化的思维,它对造成严重环境的污染、该事件的起因和该事件产生的元凶不去追究,反而对受害者进行了抓捕,这实际上恰恰是造成社会不稳定因素的最大原因,就是所谓当局的维稳思维。”
17号,海宁市政府通报,“晶科能源”已被责令停产。海宁市环保局副局长陈洪明承认,今年4月,“晶科能源”的排污口已经出现超标现象。但是,直到发生群体事件,当局才开始对“晶科公司”进行立案调查。据说,“晶科能源”每年上交政府税金达2亿元。
原《中国海洋报》浙江记者站站长昝爱宗:“它之所以那么嚣张,它可能背后有当地政府作为撑腰,如若不然它不敢打浙江电视台的记者。主要还是因为中国官员和企业勾结,太腐败!这些污染大户都是利税大户、都是政府保护的企业,这企业一般的得不到查处的。”
宁波籍律师梅春来发表博客文章指出,政府已不再是为大众提供服务的机构,而是为了追求自身利益最大的一个企业,将赚钱和发展视为第一目标,其他相抵触的利益诉求自然就都得让路。
杭州维权人士邹巍指出,中国目前的经济发展是建立在生态环境遭到破坏性掠夺开发的基础上的。梅春来律师质问,海宁如此大规模的冲突折射出当今中国经济发展模式走到了尽头,到底是公民的生存重要还是赚钱重要?如今民众已被政府逼到了生存的悬崖边上了。
新唐人记者林莉、李元翰、萧宇采访报导。
Civilian Survival Or Authority Interests?
Villagers in Haining city, Zhejiang province in China
have held three days of protest against Jinko Solar Co.
discharging heavy cancer-causing pollution.
Villagers and journalists were beaten by company security.
The protesters beat local officials and overturned
four police cars. The police also fired tear gas.
Online sources state that over 10 people are injured or dead.
A human rights activist said that Chinese Communist Party’
(CCP) system was causing the struggle in people’s lives.
The Jinko Solar company is a subsidiary of a New York
Stock Exchange-listed Chinese solar company,
fully financed by Hong Kong Paker Technology Co., Ltd.
They produce solar wafers, cells and other products,
exporting to more than twenty countries within Europe, Asia,
and the United States.
The plant is located in Haining city, Zhejiang province
and Shangrao city, Jiangxi province.
There are over 10,000 employees
and the plant covers more than 165 acres.
The Solar plant is located in Hongxiao village
of Yuanhua town, Haining city.
Villagers blame the company for discharging polluted water
and harmful gases into the environment,
causing the massive deaths of fish floating in the river.
Local villagers found that there were over 10 people
who developed cancer as a result of the pollution.
One netizen, Mr. Sun, was even arrested by the police
“for spreading rumours online.”
Several had died from the cancer-causing pollution
in Hongxiao village on September 15,
causing the villagers to panic and gather
at the Solar plant to seek explanation.
Some villagers were chased and beaten
by the Solar company’s security men.
Protester numbers reached over a few thousand
by that evening.
Mr Chen (Villager): “There was a senior lady selling
vegetables, she kneeled down and asked officials,
‘Please move the factory, vegetables are difficult to sell now.’
The mayor approached her and said,
‘You are very old and yet you also come to make trouble.’
Villagers were angry to hear this,
so they started beating the mayor.”
CCP’s mouthpiece, Xinhua News Agency, quoted Haining
officials’,that 500 villagers gathered at the Solar plant
at 7.30pm on September 15, some stormed the factory
compound, flipped over 8 vehicles and damaged offices.
The next day, there were a large number of villagers gathered
again at the Solar company, blocking the road.
Two journalists, Zhang Jun and Zhao Ting, of Zhejiang TV
Qianjiang Channel came to Solar company for interviews,
but were beaten by over 10 security men,
and the camera equipment was smashed.
Qianjiang Channel presenter: “Being a person with a normal
degree of emotion, I want to say this to the Solar company,
‘Bastards, who do you think you are? Are you some kind
of wild beings who haven’t evolved completely?
I curse you not only for my colleagues which you’ve beaten,
and for the hampered interview,
but because justice was hurt and the truth was harmed.”
Central News Agency quoted a mainland netizen’s posts
that there were almost 10,000 villagers gathered
in the evening on September 16. There were over 20,000
people who gathered online reports.
Authorities sent over 1,000 police, with batons and tear gas
to dismiss protesters. Police and protesters were fighting
each other, four police cars were turned over, and online
reports claimed that over 10 villagers were injured or dead.
Police detained 20 protesters, the site was blocked
and news was sealed off.
Zou Wei (Human Rights Activist, Hangzhou):
“This reflects authorities’ rigid way of thinking.
They don’t investigate the cause of the environmental
pollution and don’t investigate who is responsible.
Instead, they maintain “stability” and detain villagers.
The so-called stability is the leading cause of instability.
This is the ignorant “maintaining stability” thinking
of the Chinese authorities.”
Haining local government announced on September 17
that the Solar company had halted production.
Vice Director of Haining Environmental Protection Bureau,
Chen Hongming admitted that Zhejiang Jinko factory
had failed its pollution tests since April. However, authorities
had not started any investigations until protests erupted.
Other sources say that Jinko Solar company
pays $31 million in tax each year.
Zan Aizong (Former Director, China Ocean News):
“The Solar company is so arrogant,
it must have the local government behind it,
otherwise they wouldn’t dare beat Zhejiang TV journalists.
The Chinese authorities are corrupt, the enterprises
give them benefits. Those companies causing major pollution
are a huge tax payers,
they are protected and they won’t be punished.”
Ningbo lawyer Mei Chunlai posted an article on his blog
saying that the government is no longer serving the people,
instead serving the biggest enterprises, seeking only profit.
Making money is their first goal, therefore, any other
demands against their interests naturally have to give way.
Hangzhou human rights activist, Zou Wei pointed out
that Chinese economic development was established
on the expense of destructive environment exploitation.
Lawyer Mei Chunlai questioned how the Haining unrest
reflected China’s economic development,
“What is most important, civilian survival
or authority interests?
Civilian survival has been pushed to the edge of the cliff
by the CCP’s government.
NTD reporters Lin Li, Li Yuanhan and Xiao Yu