Man turns house into military fort
By Jane Chen |
July 23, 2010, Friday
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A MAN who is resisting demolition has turned his three-story house in east China's Anhui Province into a military fortress guarded with nine dogs, four cameras and a flame gun.
Zhang Anfang has guarded his house in downtown Bengbu City in this way for six years since the tension between him and a real estate developer accumulated after compensation talks failed, yesterday's Legal Daily newspaper reported.
Zhang claimed the developer cut off his water, power and gas supplies to force him out of the building, attacked his house and threatened to force a demolition.
He now lives on water carried far from the building and power from his own generator, he told the newspaper.
He spends nearly 1,000 yuan (US$148) a month to keep the nine ferocious dogs to guard his building.
But staff with the developer, Bengbu Jiutong Real Estate Development Co Ltd, denied Zhang's accusations, saying the compensation talks failed because Zhang asked too much.
Zhang sought five apartments, one for each of his sons, they said. But according to rules, he was entitled to only one apartment plus a little cash for the 110-square-meter building.
Local government officials echoed the staff member's words.
Jiutong acquired the land where Zhang's house is located in 2003 to build a new housing project. All the 443 households agreed to be relocated except Zhang and two other households. The two are Zhang's relatives.
Bengshan District Administration Execution Bureau ordered Zhang's house demolished in February this year, but Zhang destroyed the excavator, according to a document shown by Bengbu's housing administration.
In east China's Jiangsu Province, meanwhile, relocation projects were suspended and two government officials were fired after as many as 1,000 people protested for four days last week against local authorities' handling of land compensation cases.
The Party and government heads of Tong'an Town in Suzhou City were dismissed for "mishandling public appeals and dereliction of duty when following land compensation standards," the local government said in an e-mail.
Zhang Anfang has guarded his house in downtown Bengbu City in this way for six years since the tension between him and a real estate developer accumulated after compensation talks failed, yesterday's Legal Daily newspaper reported.
Zhang claimed the developer cut off his water, power and gas supplies to force him out of the building, attacked his house and threatened to force a demolition.
He now lives on water carried far from the building and power from his own generator, he told the newspaper.
He spends nearly 1,000 yuan (US$148) a month to keep the nine ferocious dogs to guard his building.
But staff with the developer, Bengbu Jiutong Real Estate Development Co Ltd, denied Zhang's accusations, saying the compensation talks failed because Zhang asked too much.
Zhang sought five apartments, one for each of his sons, they said. But according to rules, he was entitled to only one apartment plus a little cash for the 110-square-meter building.
Local government officials echoed the staff member's words.
Jiutong acquired the land where Zhang's house is located in 2003 to build a new housing project. All the 443 households agreed to be relocated except Zhang and two other households. The two are Zhang's relatives.
Bengshan District Administration Execution Bureau ordered Zhang's house demolished in February this year, but Zhang destroyed the excavator, according to a document shown by Bengbu's housing administration.
In east China's Jiangsu Province, meanwhile, relocation projects were suspended and two government officials were fired after as many as 1,000 people protested for four days last week against local authorities' handling of land compensation cases.
The Party and government heads of Tong'an Town in Suzhou City were dismissed for "mishandling public appeals and dereliction of duty when following land compensation standards," the local government said in an e-mail.
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