{"id":45088,"date":"2015-01-28T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45088 "},"modified":"2015-01-28T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T21:12:00","slug":"45088-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45088","title":{"rendered":"Guangdong Protesters Blockade Village Offices Amid Land Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A villager lies injured after being confronted by police in Shantou’s Chaoyang district, Jan. 27, 2015.<\/div>
Photo courtesy of Yuyi villagers<\/div>
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Officials in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Wednesday pledged to investigate allegations of corruption at a village whose angry residents have besieged government buildings near Shantou city.<\/div>
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Protests began on Jan. 4 in Yuyi village in Shantou’s Chaoyang district over the sale of a tract of farmland by village officials, local residents told RFA.<\/div>
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“Several thousand people have been kicking up a major fuss outside the government offices on several occasions, but with no result,” a Yuyi resident surnamed Lin said on Wednesday.<\/div>
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An official who answered the phone at the Chaoyang district government offices on Wednesday confirmed that the villagers had complained.<\/div>
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“Yes, there have been [complaints from] this village,” the official said. “Of course we don’t know whether what the villagers are saying is true or false, but we will deal with any complaint.”<\/div>
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“The details of the complaint will be dealt with by the receiving department.”<\/div>
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More than 1,000 people gathered outside the headquarters of China’s ruling Communist Party’s village committee in Yuyi on Tuesday, calling on officials to come out and face accusations of graft.<\/div>
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“We went to the government offices … and gathered at the gate, calling on the party secretary to come out and give us some answers,” an Yuyi resident surnamed Fang said.<\/div>
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“He never came out, so we went into the offices, but we never found him,” he said. “After that, a lot of police in riot gear came.”<\/div>
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He said police had beaten some of the villagers. “One person was injured,” he said.<\/div>
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Village surrounded<\/div>
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Villagers said the government had stepped up its response to the protests by throwing a security cordon around the whole village.<\/div>
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“The government mobilized the military and the police, who have surrounded the village,” Lin said.<\/div>
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“The villagers’ land has been sold off, but we haven’t seen any of the money.”<\/div>
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“People were growing fruit and vegetables on that land, and now they are making a fuss because they have no income left,” Lin said.<\/div>
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“They didn’t go through the proper channels in managing this land.”<\/div>
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Lin said a local journalist who tried to cover the story was detained.<\/div>
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A second official who answered the phone at the Guanbu township government, which administers Yuyi village, said several thousand villagers had blockaded the local village committee buildings “for a long time.”<\/div>
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“We are in the process of dealing with this, and we have run into some difficulty,” the official said on Wednesday. “Therefore, there has been no progress.”<\/div>
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He denied that the government is refusing to act on their complaint, however. “We have tried to explain the facts to them,” he said.<\/div>
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