(BOXUN)Because of a conflict over the settlement allowance of an 8.3 magnitude earthquake, Ludian County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan province earthquake victims protest marched. On Saturday August 23 more than 100 villagers in Ludian county’s Dragon Head Mountain and Lehong Township brought protest banners to the manmade lake in the county town and county government to demonstrate. They consider the government’s settlement allowance unjust. The villagers maintain that after the earthquake the living expense allowance was set at Y25 per day. But some villagers are receiving no allowance or only Y7-8 per day, and the government is requiring them to dig out their houses in order to receive the allowance.
On Wednesday August 3 Ludian county, Zhaotong city, Yunnan province had a 6.5 magnitude earthquake that ended on August 8. It caused 617 deaths.
