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| Farmers hold protest signs as they stage a protest over land lost outside the National Assembly office in downtown Hanoi in February 2012. Vietnam arrested 20 people after heavily-armed riot police used tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of angry farmers, reports said on Wednesday, in the culmination of a six-year land dispute |
04/25/2012
AFP News
Vietnam arrested 20 people after heavily-armed riot police used tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of angry farmers, reports said on Wednesday, in the culmination of a six-year land dispute.
Around 700 farmers clashed with police and plain-clothed security officers on Tuesday to end the demonstration over the confiscation of land for a planned satellite city in Hung Yen province on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi.
The official Tuoi Tre newspaper said that after a "minor clash" during the eviction, police arrested 20 people who were now under investigation for preventing public officials carrying out their duties.
Officials used two tear gas grenades to break up a crowd of farmers who were trying to prevent bulldozers from accessing the site, which is some 25 kilometres (15 miles) southeast of Hanoi, the VNExpress reported.
The eviction proceeded "without military involvement or gunfire," it quoted a local official as saying, contradicting eyewitness reports given to AFP Tuesday that indicated police had fired warning shots above the crowd.
The farmers say a private company, Viet Hung Co. Ltd., has been granted some 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of their land without proper negotiations as part of plans to develop a satellite city named EcoPark.
Viet Hung has been trying since 2004 to build EcoPark, the biggest ecological city in northern Vietnam, which VNExpress said Wednesday had a total investment of some $6 billion, a much larger figure than previously estimated.
Land disputes with local authorities are an increasingly contentious issue in communist Vietnam, where all land is owned by the state and usage rights are not always clear or protected.
2 comments:
This is how the Viet mentality works?
In time of war they give up their freedom for sake of fighting the war.
When the war ends, they realize that there has been no benefit for their fight, except a few communist top echelons.
They feel cheated. Just imagine if there was no 2nd Vietnam War, how far advanced would Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos be vs. South Korea?
They fought to get rid of capitalist but they end up embracing capitalism that is kind of dumb isn’t it?
But I do agree with the 1st Vietnam War to get rid of the evil French.
Vietnamese, it is time for you to fight your government which gives you misery and cheats you.
Vietnamese people rise up against its govt;Khmer people rise against
Hun Sen govt.
It is time to make another war in Southeast Asia.
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