![]() "If we don't get what we need, we'll resist moving, we'll block them from taking us, we'll lock ourselves in," said Chai Fangying, a 60-year-old farmer who said she had already been moved several times over her life because of the dam. Some showed written pleas they said were sent to state leaders. ![]() Ruddy villagers in frayed blue coats and smocks yelled that they will be forced onto small plots hundreds of kilometres away. In Machuan Village, beside the Danjiangkou Dam in central China, hundreds of farmers recently spilled out of crumbling mud-brick homes to denounce plans to resettle them soon for the rising reservoir, which will store water for Beijing, Tianjin and farmland along 1,421 km (883 miles) of canals and tunnels. XICHUAN, China Feb 27 (Reuters) - China's vast scheme to channel southern rivers to its parched north faces potentially explosive defiance at a dam where bitter memories and an unsure future are driving farmers to protest the nation-spanning feat.
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