The Three Gorges area will become "the object of the covetous gaze of criminals" from outside China, as well as a key area for sabotage by "criminals harboring a strong desire for revenge on society," warn Chinese authorities in two security documents leaked to Human Rights Watch/Asia.
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Spirit trap: The Mekong
(March 21, 1995) Before sunrise the men have collected the night’s catch from the large lee traps scaffolded over the rushing water. Women sit gutting and chopping the silver-white fish, to get them ready for smoking. ‘Not a great catch, but good enough,’ says one man, placing his fish on the scales. ‘Last season, one of these traps caught over a ton of fish in just one night.
Three Gorges resettlement expected to spawn massive civil unrest
Chinese government bracing for civil uprisings
Chinese officials are bracing for violent uprisings as they force more than one million people to move to make way for the massive Three Gorges dam, according to internal security documents leaked to Human Rights Watch/Asia.
PRESS RELEASE Chinese government bracing for civil uprisings
Three Gorges Dam to Provoke Violence, Internal Document Says
Chinese government bracing for civil uprisings
March 1995 Campaign Letter
Your tax dollars are financing the forced relocation of 1.3 million Chinese
Probe Alert Winter 1995
Canada to help finance dangerous nuclear power plant in Slovakia
World Bank press backgrounders
(January 1, 1995) The world’s largest development institution, the World Bank, is misleading U.S. Congress and taxpayers, according to a new study released by the Canadian environmental group, Probe International.
How to kill the World Bank
(December 9, 1994) When the World Bank celebrated its golden anniversary in Madrid in early October, it promised a new and revitalized "vision" to alleviate Third World poverty.
How to Kill World Bank
(December 9, 1994) When the World Bank celebrated its golden anniversary in Madrid in early October, it promised a new and revitalized "vision" to alleviate Third World poverty. But the bank’s critics-from left-wing development agencies and radical environmentalists to right-wing think tanks-don’t trust that vision.
Catalytic conversion ?
(December 1, 1994) All is not quiet with what many call the West’s front – the World Bank. Half a century old and being rejuvenated, it hopes to catalyse increased private investment for emerging markets.
Thirsty for the rivers of Laos
(December 1, 1994) On the advice of the World Bank, the Laos Ministry of Industry and Handicraft hopes to raise US $2.5 billion in foreign capital, over twice the national GDP, for investment in up to 58 big dams over the next 15 years.
Rent-a-river, build a dam
(December 1, 1994) The river auction has commenced. The Lao PDR government has taken its first steps down a seductive but treacherous path to prosperity and development: renting its rivers for hydroelectric dams.
Overview of regional plans
(December 1, 1994) The 4200-kilometer Mekong is the tenth largest river in the world, carrying 475,000 million cubic meters of water to the sea annually. The river flows from the Tibetan Himalayas southward through China and passes north of Burma, its watershed encompassing nearly all of Laos, northeast Thailand, most of Cambodia, and the delta of south Vietnam.
Probe International 