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100 arrested for village clash
More than 100 people have been arrested for a bloody clash that killed six villagers and injured another 48 in a village in Hebei Province last month. Former Party secretary of Dingzhou He Feng and former Party secretary of Kaiyuan Township Yang Jinkai were also detained for further investigation, Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. Preliminary investigations by the police panel indicate that the riot was the work of two contractors, Zhang and Zhen, who are building supporting facilities for a power plant near the village of Shengyou. On June 11, more than 200 thugs with hunting rifles, clubs, sharpened pipes and other weapons, attacked farmers living in huts on a piece of scrub land near Shengyou in Dingzhou, reports said. Six farmers and one attacker were killed in the attack, 48 others were injured and hospitalized, eight of whom were in a critical condition, reports said. "A guy was shooting at us with a double-barrelled hunting rifle," said farmer Niu Zhenzong, who saw fellow villager Hou Tongshun being shot. "The tragedy could have been avoided if the local governments had acted quickly to prevent the situation from further escalation," Hou Jinshui, a farmer from Shengyou, said. Hou said a similar attack involving 20 unidentified people had occurred at the same place on April 20. Both clashes were allegedly caused by a disputed land requisition between the village and the Hebei Guohua Dingzhou Power Plant, a key State project. Infringements have also been found during the requisition process and further investigations are under way, according to a joint investigation group set up by the provincial and city land resource departments and discipline supervision departments. The power plant requisitioned 25.8 hectares of land from Shengyou in 2003, reports said. Dingzhou's Land Resources Bureau said compensation for each mu (0.07 hectare) of land would be 15,480 yuan (US$1,800). Some villagers were unhappy about the compensation and moved to the construction site at the beginning of 2004 in a bid to stop the building. The dispute has remained since then. "The requisition decision was only made by the leaders of the village at that time," Hou said. "Most of the villagers did not even agree to the sale of the land at all."
(China Daily 07/11/2005 page3)
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