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Dam protest leaves four dead in Sudan Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 14, 2007
The domestrators had gathered to protest a dam in the Kijbar region. Local press said that police fired on protesters as they tried to attack construction equipment being used to build the contested dam. Sapa-AFP reports that the protesters fear that their lands will be confiscated. The protests are not the first over a dam in the warn-torn country. To the south, Chinese contractors are building the Merowe dam, a hydroelectric project on the Nile River that will displace more than 50,000 people and inundate historical sites in Sudan. The government has recently agreed to pay compensation for the displaced, though only after a similar shooting left 3 dead and more than 50 wounded.
IRN has warned that the Merowe Dam could worsen already poor health conditions in the region. Comments? News options
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