From Reuters:
Some 1.5 million residents of Beijing will be displaced by the time the city hosts the 2008 Olympics, many of them evicted from their homes against their will, a housing rights group said on Tuesday.
The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) said residents were often forced from their homes with little notice and little compensation, as the government embarks on a massive city redevelopment to accommodate the Games.
“In Beijing, and in China more generally, the process of demolition and eviction is chara[cterized by arbitrariness and lack of due process,” the group said in a report. [Full Text]
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