{"id":47823,"date":"2015-06-27T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=47823 "},"modified":"2015-06-27T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:22:00","slug":"47823-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=47823","title":{"rendered":"Nine Injured in Clashes Between Police and Hui Muslims in China\\&#8217;s Yinchuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><div>2015-06-26<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/26\/2015627image(6).jpg\" alt=\"2015627image(6).jpg (620&#215;405)\" \/><br \/><div><\/div><div>Hui Muslims protest in front of government buildings in Yinchuan city, Ningxia, China, June 25, 2015.<\/div><div>Photo courtesy of an RFA listener<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Nine people were injured in clashes between the Muslim Hui ethnic group and security personnel in China&#8217;s western region of Ningxia after authorities moved in to demolish thousands of the community&#8217;s tombs, local residents said on Friday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Residents of Yueyahu village near Ningxia&#8217;s Yinchuan city said the clashes took place after dozens of police arrived in the village on Thursday morning and began demolishing local graves to clear land for a new airport.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Local people said the move came before an agreement had been reached with local officials over compensation for lost land and relocation of ancestral remains.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>A doctor who answered the phone at the Yueyahu medical clinic on Friday confirmed the clashes had taken place.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;They want to build an airport near here, so they need to redevelop the land, and they want to clear away the tombs, which are all on the hillside,&#8221; the doctor said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;The local people refused to allow the tombs to be relocated, saying that the compensation was too low,&#8221; he said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;Then, when the government wanted to get started on the clearance of the grave sites, they wouldn&#8217;t let them.&#8221;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Nine sent to hospital<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The doctor said nine people were injured in the ensuing clashes.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;Eventually we sent [the injured] to the municipal hospital for treatment,&#8221; the doctor said.&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;There were nine in total, one of whom was an urban management official,&#8221; he said, in reference to the notorious &#8220;chengguan&#8221; officers whose violent enforcement of local planning decisions and zoning laws has prompted widespread public outrage in China.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;We checked them all over; their condition wasn&#8217;t too bad &#8230; but the government told us to treat them as urgent cases,&#8221; the doctor said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Asked if the injuries were the result of clashes between local residents and chengguan, the doctor said: &#8220;Uh-huh.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;There were police and chengguan there, [a few dozen],&#8221; he said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Photos of the stand-off posted on social media sites showed riot police in helmets and holding shields and batons standing in a cemetery, while local residents wearing Muslim headgear faced off with them.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Some photos showed local residents lying on the ground, while others sat on the ground weeping.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Calls to the Yueyahu village government offices rang unanswered during office hours on Friday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>An officer who answered the phone at the village police station didn&#8217;t deny the incident had taken place.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>&#8220;This thing you are asking about, you&#8217;ll have to ask the leaders about it,&#8221; the police officer said. &#8220;I am just the duty officer.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Asked if any local people had been detained, the officer said: &#8220;I hadn&#8217;t heard that. I have only just arrived at work.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/china\/clashes-06262015110040.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Residents of Yueyahu village near Ningxia&#39;s Yinchuan city said the clashes took place after dozens of police arrived in the village on Thursday morning and began demolishing local graves to clear land for a new airport.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}