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Word: heguantun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
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...intimidating victims' families who speak out. In a village in Bijie township, a woman complained to neighbors last month that mine owners didn't pay compensation for her husband's death. The next day, she disappeared. No one has heard from her since. A boy leading his mule past Heguantun village instinctively shakes his head when asked about coal mines in the area. Yet just meters away, in the center of this dusty hamlet, men haul bits of coal out of a narrow shaft. "This is not an illegal mine," insists its affable owner, Yan Lizhe. "It's too small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Dies Beneath | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

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