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City snubs villagers' land petition
By Jane Chen |
May 18, 2010, Tuesday
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NEARLY 100 villagers knelt in front of a government building in south China after officials failed to respond to their petition over a land dispute.
They hoped Huazhou city government would settle the row with a neighboring village and release six villagers arrested for causing deliberate injury in the latest battle, today's South Rural newspaper reported.
Residents from Meizikeng in Guangdong Provinces said they have no farmland to feed themselves because about 2 hectares of land was occupied by villagers from Shiziling.
The latest fight broke out on April 18. One policeman and more than 10 people arrived on the scene and caught six villagers from Mezikeng while all Shiziling villagers were spared.
Last month, a mayor of a northeast China city has resigned after being widely criticized online for ignoring hundreds of petitioners kneeling to protest against corruption and inadequate compensation for the government's seizure of their land.
Mayor Sun Ming of Liaoning Province's Zhuanghe City was ordered to quit because of his handling of the protest on April 13.
The Communist Party of China's Dalian Committee and the Dalian government, which oversees Zhuanghe's administration, indicated that Sun mishandled the incident and was responsible for the bad effect it caused, according to earlier media reports.
They hoped Huazhou city government would settle the row with a neighboring village and release six villagers arrested for causing deliberate injury in the latest battle, today's South Rural newspaper reported.
Residents from Meizikeng in Guangdong Provinces said they have no farmland to feed themselves because about 2 hectares of land was occupied by villagers from Shiziling.
The latest fight broke out on April 18. One policeman and more than 10 people arrived on the scene and caught six villagers from Mezikeng while all Shiziling villagers were spared.
Last month, a mayor of a northeast China city has resigned after being widely criticized online for ignoring hundreds of petitioners kneeling to protest against corruption and inadequate compensation for the government's seizure of their land.
Mayor Sun Ming of Liaoning Province's Zhuanghe City was ordered to quit because of his handling of the protest on April 13.
The Communist Party of China's Dalian Committee and the Dalian government, which oversees Zhuanghe's administration, indicated that Sun mishandled the incident and was responsible for the bad effect it caused, according to earlier media reports.
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