Welcome to capitalism: horrors of China evictions

[Zardoz]

Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 03:30 AM +0100 
Amnesty: Forced home evictions are rising in China 
By Associated Press 
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/11/amnesty_forced_home_evictions_are_rising_in_china/singleton/

BEIJING (AP) — Amnesty International says cases of Chinese authorities forcibly evicting people from their homes have risen significantly. The human rights group says such forced evictions are a serious threat to social and political stability.

Forced demolitions have long been common in China as millions of residents have had to relocate to make way for real estate development.

But the report Amnesty released Thursday said evictions escalated over the past three years during a construction boom that was spurred by massive stimulus spending after the global financial crisis.

It says local authorities seize and then sell off land to property developers.

Of 40 forced evictions the group says it examined in detail, nine people died fighting evictions. In one case, a 70-year-old woman was buried alive by an excavator.

--- In Diggers350 at yahoogroups.com, "david bangs" <dave.bangs at ...> wrote:
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> Chinese activist, Au Loong Yu, just about to tour Britain, has written this article for the Solidarity magazine, which has stuff on land grabs and environmental struggles as well as much on the upsurge in industrial workers struggles
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> 43% of all Chinese farmers have been affected by land grabs !!!
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> http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/3730
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> Dave Bangs
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