From Guardian Unlimited:
Chinese authorities knocked down part of a rundown neighborhood in Beijing on Wednesday where people live, sometimes for months, while petitioning the central government for help fighting grievances in their hometowns.
Authorities sprayed several buildings with water and then crushed them with a bulldozer. The small compound lies next to a massive new train station being built in the southern part of the capital….[Full Text]
– Real earlier post via CDT