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According to mainstream news report, 30 peasant households from
Wudu（æ¦éƒ½ï¼‰ district
Dongjiang（æ±æ±Ÿï¼‰ town paid a petition
visit to the Lungnan（隴å—） city
committee yesterday (18 of Nov), but it ended up with police repression. There is little
information on what had exactly happened as information has been blocked.
However, two videos have been uploaded in youtube showing the street fight between protesters and
police. In the video, sound of gunfire is rather visible:
Beifeng tried to figure out the background of the confrontation
by searching on the web. And it seems that the incident is related with the land acquisition
compensation and the relocation of the Lungnan City after the earthquake. Here is a translation
of Beifeng's investigation:
Lungnan is located in southern Gansu. It is the only region in the province that situates near
the Yangtze River. Before the earthquake in May, the region had a large scale city construction
project and many peasants had to surrender their land. In order to build the new city government
office building, most of the farmland and residential district at Dongjiang town and Hanwang town
has been resumed. Some said that many people were forcefully removed by developer and some are
still living in camp.
In the May 12 earthquake, there were more than 300 people injured and killed. Gansu is the
second most seriously affected area in the country after Sichuan. Back in July 2008, there were
rumors saying that the city committee and government planned to relocate the city administration
center from Lungnan to Cheng County out of geology consideration. The plan had agitated peasants
who had suffered from the land acquisition and the residents in Lungnan. However, the government
denied the rumor very quickly via local media and the emotion cooled down. However, a week later
some netizens found out that the document concerning the geology issue and city relocation had been
posted on the website of the State Department. The Lungnan City government did not give further
response to the issue. People from Wudu and Cheng County were put in an antagonistic position and
there were a lot of online verbal attacks. The peasants suffered from land acquisition and
demolition also started to pay petition visit.
In the morning of Nov 17, the news about “Lungnan City relocation plan approved by State
Department” spread out, which probably leaded to this new round of petition visit.
At 9:30am of Nov 17, more than 30 petitioners from Dongjiang town, Wudu district, Lungnan City
paid the petition visit to the city committee. Because of the land acquisition, people are homeless
and landless, now that the city is to relocated to another district, they demand the city committee
to explain the situation and whether the government have any relief plan for them. In the
afternoon, more people gathered in front of the city committee. Although the city officials had
arranged a meeting with the petitioners, there was no consensus. More and more people gathered
outside the city committee in the evening until midnight expecting to see city leader. For some
unknown reason, some people rushed into the courtyard of city committee, broke the windows and
vehicles and set fire on part of the office. Such action leaded to this serious confrontation.
Police's trap
A secondary school youth from Wudu gave more background on this confrontation in the comment
section:
The government had been preaching to the people not to believe in rumor and they had arrested 6
so-called rumor makers. Since Wang Yi became the secretary of city committee, a lot of residential
buildings had been demolished, especially in Wudu Dongjiang town. It is not exaggerating to say
that the whole town had been demolished and thousands of people lost their home. Wang Yi explained
to the people that Dongjiang would become Lungnan new city center. People believed the government
and willingly moved into temporary housing. No one complained because they believed in the party's
good will to improve their life. However, now that Wang Yi decided to move away and left behind so
many homeless people. How can they not be angry? During the 5.12 earthquake, people wasn't
panicking. In Nov 17, people were really angry, they protested in front of the city committee
spontaneously. People in Wudu are very civilized, at first they just shout slogan: “no
relocation”. However, later at night, some police from Cheng County pushed a number of
protesters into the city committee building and beat them hard. People couldn't stand anymore, they
rushed in to rescue their fellow and tried to get hold of the attackers. However, the police
insiders received them with rods and stones. Then the situation became out of control. More than a
hundred people had been arrested now, many were injured, some are fatal. It is more agitating that
the military vehicles moving in carry a slogan “counter terrorist force”. The image of
earthquake rescuing team has vanished over night.
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