Farmers tried to protect their land: bloody crash down

Posted by boxun on 2010/01/24. Filed under China. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

By Boxun
Jan 24, 2010 – 1:16:53 PM

JiangJia Cun, Guilin, GuangXi: Janurary 19, 2010, farmers tried to protect their land, but hundreds of police attacked them with dogs, gas, dozens of villagers injured. After the tragedy, police continued to arrest those injured farmers from home and hospital. This incident has been covered up totally in China.

There are a few similar incidents in Guilin, Guangxi. On Janurary 12, a conflict between police and farmers caused at least one death.(http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2010/01/201001141305.shtml) The official news says farmers used violence illegally. Source told Boxun that large number of police are still in the village to press farmers down.

Full article and pictures in Chinse about the incident of Jan. 19:
http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2010/01/201001250215.shtml

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Farmers tried to protect their land: bloody crash down