In defending their rights, Guilin villagers hacked with knives and arrested

Gaozhou Village, Gongcheng County, Guilin City, Guangxi Province villagers, because they could no longer stand the pollution caused by a brick factory, have already been protesting for their rights for several days. On Tuesday September 2, 2014, the brick factory boss, under the guise of negotiating, tricked seven village leaders into entering the brick factory. The boss had employed 20 thugs to attack the village leaders with knives. This resulted in five being injured and three being injured seriously. On Wednesday September 3 the villagers demonstrated and called for the government to severely punish the attackers. A large number of police were sent to repress the protest and many people were beaten and arrested.

The cause of this dispute was the large volume of pollutants produced by the brick factory. The villagers originally requested that the brick factory chimney be raised so the pollutants would go into the upper atmosphere, but because the pollutants are too heavy they still fell on the local fields and orchards and resulted in villagers breathing the pollutants. The villagers many times demanded the brick factory fix this problem.

More than 20 knife-wielding thugs attacked five unarmed village leaders. The most seriously injured had his head crackod open and his life is in jeopardy.

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