Blogs For Industry has been doing a good job of catching up with the blogosphere {which also includes some very interesting background work on the conflicting reports on the nature of the power plant development project involved} and the media on the incident at Dongzhou.

Also provides a criticism of Pajamas Media's coverage. {No, I didn't receive a link from the new media project for the willfully stupid this time around. Seems that they have a thin skin and like the InstaParrot, don't link to personal critics, especially of the moonbat variety.} In all honesty, the PJ's pages look like someone went through a Technorati search on a topic and wrote a sentence on each link. US$3.5 million to do this?

Blogs for Industry also provides Xinhua's first story on the incident, which is where I'll pick up the local morning coverage.

SCMP^[?] leads with reporting based upon the Xinhua story.

"The December 6th Incident is a serious crime instigated by a small number of people," it said. "A very small number of instigators in Dongzhou ... are the main culprits. They must shoulder the legal responsibility of the serious consequence of what's happened."

Villagers last night reacted to the statement with anger and concern. Some feared further arrests and others said the death toll was higher and complained police had yet to return the bodies of their missing relatives. The situation was last night tense in the village.

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The statement did not specify if the "instigators" had been arrested. But a local television broadcast last night said eight suspects were in custody, including the three main organisers, identified as Huang Xijun, Huang Xirang and Lin Hanru.

SCMP also provides a staff reporter's story about the villagers' fear of reprisals.

The clash in the village of Shanwei city resulted in the death of three civilians, according to authorities, who added it was now classified as a case of "serious violence against the people's police by several hundred villagers that was instigated by a small number of people".

One villager whose relative was wounded in the crackdown said yesterday he had been told the police would lock up those they could prove had taken part in the protests.

"We just spent 20,000 yuan on surgery to save him [the relative] after he was shot in the chest," the villager said.

"But he is now under effective police custody at Shanwei People's Hospital after he was interviewed by television reporters from Hong Kong last Wednesday."

The villager said that at least four officers were guarding his relative and family who came to visit were not allowed to return home.

"Other family members cannot visit him at the hospital now," he said.

Local sources said a senior Shanwei city official visited the widow of Wei Jin late on Friday and offered the family 2,000 yuan in condolence money.

Wei, 31, was killed in the clash. He is survived by a wife and two sons.

A woman whose husband suffered minor injuries believed all the injured villagers were now under police control.

"Actually, no injured villagers are not allowed to meet outsiders, especially reporters from Hong Kong," she said.

A 57-year-old man, who did not protest but was hit in the head by a tear gas canister, said he saw the police shooting.

"I went [to the riot site] to have a look because I was curious," said the man who declined to give his full name, but was willing to be photographed. "But there [police fired] tear gas and I heard gunshots after flashes of bright light.