{"id":74321,"date":"2017-06-14T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=74321 "},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:37:00","slug":"74321-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=74321","title":{"rendered":"Police Probe Village Officials in China\\’s Hunan After Beating Death of \\’Good Official\\’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scenes from a protest at Daxin township government compound in Hunan over the beating death of a local official , June 10, 2017.<\/span><\/p>

Courtesy of an RFA listener.<\/span><\/p>

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Authorities in the central province of Hunan have sacked three ruling Chinese Communist Party officials after accusing them of beating a former official to death.<\/span><\/p>

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Police in Hunan’s Xinshao county, near Shaoyang city, are making further arrests after the death of Zhang Youping, 47, party secretary of Xinshao’s Yanzhu New Village, they said in a statement posted on the Sina news portal on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>

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County authorities have also fired Daxin township party secretary Wang Hong, his deputy Yuan Aixiong and current Yanzhu New Village party chief Liu Shuguang, the report said.<\/span><\/p>

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“The county-level discipline inspection team will now investigate Wang Hong, Yuan Aixiong and three others in connection with the incident, it said.<\/span><\/p>

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It said Zhang Youping was beaten to death at 1.40 p.m. on Saturday, and that Liu Shuguang had gathered a group of people including Zhang Kaihua and a man surnamed Xiao to attack Zhang Youping.<\/span><\/p>

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“He died after being taken to hospital,” the Sina report said, citing the Shaoyang municipal police department.<\/span><\/p>

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“That same afternoon, his body was taken by his relatives to the Daxin township government compound, attracting a large crowd.”<\/span><\/p>

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Further arrests expected<\/span><\/p>

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Video of the scene sent to RFA showed several people carrying a covered body on a stretcher, and uniformed police clashing with a large crowd in the government compound.<\/span><\/p>

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The key suspects are all currently in the custody of the Xinshao county police, who are making further arrests, the police report said.<\/span><\/p>

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A Yanzhu resident surnamed Liang told RFA that the family had taken Zhang Youping’s dead body to the government compound in Daxin township out of anger at his death.<\/span><\/p>

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“There were around two or three thousand local people there, who supported them,” Liang said. “There were about 300-400 police, and some officials, who didn’t handle it well, and called in the armed police.”<\/span><\/p>

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“The police used very brutal tactics and let their dogs loose to bite the relatives and bystanders,” he said. “There were huge clashes after that.”<\/span><\/p>

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Liang said Zhang had been attacked because he opposed redevelopment plans for his village, and had been trying to prevent the corrupt use of village funds and assets.<\/span><\/p>

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“This wasn’t about a personal grievance; it was a matter that affected the whole village,” he said. “The current village officials wanted to demolish and rebuild the village committee building, which had only just been built.”<\/span><\/p>

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“[Zhang] wouldn’t allow it, so the current party secretary called in a gang of thugs and beat the former village party secretary to death.”<\/span><\/p>

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Clean and honest official<\/span><\/p>

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A resident of a nearby village surnamed Qu said Zhang had been widely seen as a clean and honest officials, who had sold off his house and car to pay for a bridge to be used by local people.<\/span><\/p>

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“I am from the village next door, and [Zhang] really did do something good,” Qu said. “He was a good official, but the new party secretary is more like a petty dictator. He wasn’t elected, but was directly appointed by the local government.”<\/span><\/p>

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Calls to the Daxin township government offices rang unanswered during office hours on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>

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An official who answered the phone at the Xinshao county government offices declined to comment, saying official statements have already been published online.<\/span><\/p>

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A local resident surnamed Wang said she had witnessed huge crowds outside the township government on Monday.<\/span><\/p>

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“There were so many people there; more than 1,000 at the very least,” she said. “The riot police also clashed with local people, and they let loose some police dogs, which bit people.”<\/span><\/p>

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“The riot police took [the body] away at around 4.00 a.m. for an autopsy,” Wang said.<\/span><\/p>

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