Freitag, 23. September 2011

Land Dispute Stirs Riots in Southern China

By ANDREW JACOBS


BEIJING — Rioters in southern Guangdong Province besieged government buildings, attacked police officers and overturned SWAT team vehicles during two days of protests this week against the seizure of farmland, said officials in Shanwei, a city not far from Hong Kong that skirts the South China Sea.


According to the Web site of the Shanwei municipal government, hundreds of people on Wednesday blocked an important highway while others mobbed the local headquarters

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