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Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008 9:18 am
Subject: Re: Two killed as Chinese workers riot in Equatorial Guinea
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> Two killed as Chinese workers riot in Equatorial Guinea
> Tue 1 Apr 2008, 6:12 GMT
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> MALABO (Reuters) - Two Chinese were killed and four injured in Equatorial
> Guinea when striking Chinese construction workers clashed with security
> forces in a labour dispute that turned violent, Chinese authorities
> said on
> Monday.
> A senior government official in Equatorial Guinea said the clash occurred
> last week during what he called a "riot" by some 200 Chinese contract
> labourers working at Mongomo on the continental mainland part of the
> West
> African oil producer.
> "We don't want this kind of revolt in the country," the official told
> Reuters, asking not to be named. But he added he could not confirm the
> deaths, which were reported by the English-language China Daily in Beijing
> on Monday, citing a posting on the Chinese Foreign Ministry Website.
> While details were sketchy, it was believed to be the first case of Chinese
> workers being killed in a labour dispute in Africa. Separatist Ogaden
> rebels
> killed nine Chinese in a raid on an oilfield in Ethiopia last year and
> Chinese employees have been taken hostage in other incidents in
> Nigeria and
> Niger.
> In an economic offensive that has alarmed the West, Beijing is pumping
> billions of dollars into energy, mining and infrastructure projects
> on the
> world's poorest continent to secure oil and minerals for its fast growing
> economy.
> At the same time, increasing disputes and protests at Chinese-run or
> financed projects in Africa have given ammunition to western critics
> who say
> Beijing is cutting corners on labour and human rights safeguards in its
> African investment drive.
> China had asked Equatorial Guinea's government to investigate last week's
> incident, according to the posting on the Chinese Foreign Ministry Website.
> "There was a riot of Chinese workers in Mongomo ... they confronted our
> military," the Equatorial Guinean official said.
> He said the dispute turned violent when the strikers tried to stop other
> Chinese from carrying on working in Mongomo, where companies from
> China are
> constructing roads and buildings.
> According to the China Daily report, the Equatorial Guinean government
> expressed deep regret over the incident, adding it was willing to
> work with
> the Chinese side.
> TOUGH CONDITIONS
> It was not immediately clear whether the incident would damage Beijing's
> relations with Equatorial Guinea, sub-Saharan Africa's third biggest
> oil
> producer where China National Petroleum Corp has invested in deep-water
> exploration. The country's oil sector is dominated by Western companies.
> Chinese companies have also been working on several infrastructure projects.
>
> The Mongomo incident focused attention on labour issues at Chinese economic
> projects in Africa, where local African workers have protested over
> low pay
> and harsh conditions.
> "The more Chinese projects you have in Africa, the more this sort of
> thing
> is likely to occur," said Alex Vines, head of the Africa Programme at
> Chatham House, a London-based think tank.
> African projects operated by Chinese companies not only caused resentment
> among locals because of their tough demands on workers but also
> because they
> often brought in Chinese contract labourers, reducing the creation of
> local
> jobs.
> Vines said Mongomo, close to Equatorial Guinea's eastern frontier with
> Gabon, is the ancestral home of the family of President Teodoro Obiang
> Nguema, who has ruled since 1979.
> "Equatorial Guinea has been using the Chinese to play them off against
> Western companies and obtain better terms from the West," he added.
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