Violence has again erupted in Shengyou, and foreign journalists have again been detained for trying to cover it. From AFP: Police in Shengyou village, Hebei province, detained two foreign journalists from Agence France-Presse on Wednesday after the reporters entered the village to confirm reports of August 28 clashes between police and villagers. The violence erupted […]
From the Los Angeles Times: EARLIER THIS month, Chinese police shot and killed as many as 20 protesters (the numbers are in dispute) in Dongzhou village, near Hong Kong. The use of lethal force was unusual, but the underlying grievances were commonplace: powerless townspeople demonstrating against local government practices that endanger their meager existence. Economic […]
From the BBC: A local Chinese Party official and 26 other people have gone on trial for their role in a bloody riot over land rights in northern China. He Feng and the others were charged with causing “intentional injuries” during a clash with protesters in Shengyou village, Hebei, in June. Six people died after […]
From the BBC: The battle of Shengyou village has come to highlight one of China’s sharpest social issues – the Communist Party’s complete control of land allocation. More than 66 million Chinese farmers have lost their land in the past 10 years. It is a land grab which has fattened the wallets of government officials […]
From the Washington Post: Government officials in a rural area near Beijing have backed off plans to seize land in a dispute with local farmers that resulted in a violent confrontation last month, state media reported Thursday. The clash, involving hundreds of armed thugs, left six villagers dead, and part of it was captured on […]
From Reuters, via deepikaglobal.com: China has arrested more than 100 people in connection with a clash over village land in northern Hebei province that left seven people dead and wounded 48, the China Daily newspaper said today. Hundreds of thugs armed with pipes, scythes, hunting rifles and other weapons attacked villagers squatting on the planned […]
From the Economist: A bloody clash this month between peasants and hundreds of armed thugs sent by developers to seize their land has thrown a harsh light on one of the most controversial questions posed by China’s economic development. Who owns the farmland, and what rights do peasants have if it is requisitioned? This topic […]
From ESWN: What should a Chinese reporter do when an edict comes down to ban all coverage of a subject in the newspapers? Answer: Publish your field notes on the Internet for all to read! These notes explained where the famous 3-minute ‘Washington Post’ attack video actually came from.
Thanks to David Kelly from the East Asian Institute of National University of Singapore for the following translation. The original Chinese commentary is by Liang Jing, from Radio Free Asia (via ncn.org). Before dawn on 11 June, 2 to 300 camouflaged persons of unclear status attacked residents of the village of Shengyou in Dingzhou County, […]
From AFX, via Forbes.com: Police have arrested 22 people over a deadly mob attack on a village whose residents have refused to leave their land to make way for a power plant, Xinhua news agency reported. A construction contractor and 21 accomplices were arrested in the northern Hebei province and are being charged with killing […]
From The Globe and Mail: For the second time in recent weeks, Chinese peasants have emerged victorious from violent clashes sparked by protests against government land-development schemes. The bloody clashes are the latest signs of mounting unrest in rural China, where villagers are fighting back against government efforts to seize their land for industrial developments.
From Reuters, via sandiego.com Saturday’s showdown at Shengyou, 220 km (140 miles) southwest of Beijing in Hebei province, was first reported in the Beijing News, rare coverage for one of a growing number of disputes over land rights in China, where the government places an overriding emphasis on the need for social stability. Protests take […]
The Washington Post posted a video clip of the Shengyou attack. (registration required). Editor’s Note: This video contains violent content. washingtonpost.com presents the original, unedited version as it was received. A farmer in Shengyou, China, videotaped hundreds of armed men attacking a group of local farmers. According to witness accounts, the group was resisting government […]
From China Daily: Six villagers were killed and eight badly hurt when several hundred allegedly hired thugs descended on a village in northern China and clashed with local residents over a land dispute. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning when five busloads of men ransacked Shengyou village in Hebei province with […]
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