![]() ![]() ![]() The crowd berated a village official and shouted out claims that their impending removal has been dogged by corruption, long neglect and coerced signing of agreements to move. “If we don’t get what we need, we’ll resist moving, we’ll block them from taking us, we’ll lock ourselves in,” said Chai Fangying, a 60-year-old farmer who said she had already been moved several times over her life because of the dam. Some showed written pleas they said were sent to state leaders. ![]() Ruddy villagers in frayed blue coats and smocks yelled that they will be forced onto small plots hundreds of kilometres away. In Machuan Village, beside the Danjiangkou Dam in central China, hundreds of farmers recently spilt out of crumbling mud-brick homes to denounce plans to resettle them soon for the rising reservoir, which will store water for Beijing, Tianjin and farmland along 1,421 km (883 miles) of canals and tunnels. A fisherman steers his boat after disembarking from his village of Shizigang, located on the Danjiangkou Dam in Henan province February 19, 2009. ![]()
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