{"id":48524,"date":"2015-08-03T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=48524 "},"modified":"2015-08-03T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:54:00","slug":"48524-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=48524","title":{"rendered":"Police in China\\’s Hainan Beat, Detain Villagers Over Land Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Villagers protest for promised compensation in land grab, Hainan, China, July 31, 2015.<\/div>
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Chinese police attacked a protest rally in southern China’s island province of Hainan on Friday, beating and detaining 10, as more than a thousand villagers gathered outside government offices to protest what they called the embezzlement of funds promised in compensation for confiscated land, sources said.<\/div>
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The protesters, representing 10 villages in Hainan’s Lingshui county, had petitioned daily at the site in Yelin township since mid-June, sources said, with comments posted by protesters on social media saying that many among those most badly hurt in the July 31 police assault were elderly.<\/div>
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“Those injured are in their 50s and 60s,” one post read, adding, “They were beaten and hospitalized just because they complained about the local government’s embezzlement.”<\/div>
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“The [ruling] Chinese Communist Party is so cruel,” the post said.<\/div>
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“One 60-year-old woman was injured so badly that she had to be sent to a hospital in Haikou city for treatment,” read another post, written by villager Yan Zhifang.<\/div>
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“One senior citizen was beaten so badly, he couldn’t even move,” villager A Mimi wrote, adding, “Those who were seriously injured were sent to hospitals for treatment.” <\/div>
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The display by protesters of banners on Friday may have especially angered the authorities, a villager surnamed Sun said.<\/div>
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“Many police came and tried to confiscate the banners, but the villagers resisted.”<\/div>
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“So they beat the villagers and kicked them, and 10 people were injured and detained,” he said.<\/div>
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Amount promised in dispute<\/div>
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Around two billion yuan [U.S. $322,500,000] in promised compensation funds was never paid since village land was claimed in 2010 for development projects, village sources said.<\/div>
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“The amount of compensation was to have been 34,000 yuan [U.S. $5,482.50] per person,” Yan Zhifang wrote. “However, each villager has received only 3,400 yuan [U.S. $548.25].”<\/div>
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“Therefore, the villagers have been protesting on a daily basis.  Almost all the families in the villages are involved,” he said.<\/div>
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Reached for comment, local police refused to provide details of the July 31 incident.<\/div>
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But Chen Weiyi—party chief of Zhuojie district, in which Yelin township lies-—claimed that villagers had inflated the amount of money they were promised in exchange for their land.<\/div>
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“[They were promised] exactly 3,450 yuan, not 34,500 yuan. This is all false. The villagers gave their figures incorrectly,” he said.<\/div>
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