The German government on Friday gave money to pay for vital surgery on Fu Xiancai, who was beaten after campaigning on behalf of displaced residents from the Three Gorges dam area. An operation is scheduled for Sunday, DPA reports.

In December 2002, the resettlement bureau in Maoping tried to burn its books to cover up accounting fraud. However, the 1994 accounting report was kept intact by concerned individuals and has become part of the evidence presented by petitioners.

The operation Sunday might enable Fu Xiancai to use a wheelchair, although doctors say he will not walk again, his son said

Despite international limelight and accolades, green activists in China still face great risks in their environmental campaigns as they run afoul of profit-minded local officials and energy companies with vested interests.

A Chinese activist left paralyzed following a severe beating remained in intensive care Monday after an operation to stabilize his spinal injuries.

‘HRIC calls on the Chinese authorities to ensure that Fu Xiancai is provided with any disability subsidies for medical treatment and financial support authorized under Chinese law, and to carry out a thorough and transparent inquiry into his attack.’

‘This happened in China,’ said foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu. Authorities have initiated an inquiry into the attack and the hospital is actively treating him, she said, adding that ‘they don’t wish to be disturbed.’

Fu Xiancai’s condition has suddenly worsened after post-operative complications developed Tuesday. He had to have an incision made into his airways after developing pneumonia, his son told DPA.

Fu Xiancai ‘had another small operation but it looks like it will take six months for him to recover and he won’t be able to use his arms and legs. The outlook is not very hopeful,’ said a friend.

For many Chinese, dream dam is a nightmare

(June 22, 2006) Construction of hydropower resources in Yangtze valley will be a “hot spot of state investment in the coming dozens of years,” People’s Daily

Fu Xiancai’s supporters could raise only 20,000 of the 60,000 yuan cost of the surgery. Police interfered with the collection of money. He was finally operated on 10 days after the attack, after German diplomats visited and paid for the operation.

‘Fu Xiancai, once a subsistence farmer who was forced off his land by China’s Three Gorges Dam project, has violated the cardinal rule in this Communist country. He has refused to shut up.’

Fairness of investigation in doubt.

Mountain community fights plans for a giant dam, in a country that badly needs more clean energy.