A sack
full of empty tear gas and stun grenade cannisters, collected by local
inhabitants after hundreds of police stormed the village of Beaneh on
February 25 2004 to demolish five houses. Several homeowners and council
officials who tried to negotiate were severely beaten with batons, and
children at a nearby kindergarten needed hospital treatment after tear gas
was fired into their playground. According to the markings of the
cannisters many were produced by the “Defense Technology Corporation of
America”. (May 2004)
