Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Land grabs in Southern China trigger 3 days of riots...

Thousands of residents in two Southern Chinese townships took to the streets last week over unfair land expropriation. These types of conflicts have become very common throughout China with increased numbers of villagers being forced off their land by real estate developers and local officials who turn the land for huge profits.

The initial protest on Sept. 21 in Wukan was triggered when villagers learned that one of the last pieces of the villagers' land had been sold to a developer and construction work was about to begin. Angry villagers gathered in a square to demand that authorities disclose accounting detail of the land transactions within three days.

 Villagers have accused village officials of secretly selling their land. They estimated that more than 700 million yuan (US$109 million) of land compensation money has been embezzled in the past four years, according to Voice of America. Full story...

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