AFP
Wednesday , January 13th, 2010
One person was killed and scores injured last week as
police clashed with villagers in eastern China over the forced eviction
of farmers from rural lands, residents and a human rights group said
Tuesday.
The violence began last Thursday when about 100 hired
thugs beat farmers who had resisted eviction in the city of Pizhou in
Jiangsu province, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human
Rights and Democracy said.
It said the farmers from Hewan village had refused to move off lands where local authorities want to build a chemical plant.
“One woman was killed and another woman was severely injured
by dozens of thugs hired by the township government,” a Hewan
resident who gave only his surname, Yang, told AFP by phone.
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