Palmares
16th October 2014, 16:25
Villagers in southwest China have vowed to “fight to the death" after a long-running land dispute erupted into violence that left eight people dead and at least 18 injured.
Hundreds of police were surrounding Fuyou village in Yunnan province on Thursday morning in the wake of pitched battles between local farmers and hundreds of unidentified men who launched a Tuesday afternoon assault on the community.
At least two villagers and six "attackers" were killed in the skirmishes which appear to have been sparked by a row over a developer's attempts to evict farmers from their land in order to build a logistics centre.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...d-clashes.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11166569/Chinese-villagers-vow-to-fight-to-death-after-deadly-land-clashes.html)
Hundreds of police were surrounding Fuyou village in Yunnan province on Thursday morning in the wake of pitched battles between local farmers and hundreds of unidentified men who launched a Tuesday afternoon assault on the community.
At least two villagers and six "attackers" were killed in the skirmishes which appear to have been sparked by a row over a developer's attempts to evict farmers from their land in order to build a logistics centre.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...d-clashes.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11166569/Chinese-villagers-vow-to-fight-to-death-after-deadly-land-clashes.html)