Chinese Authorities Lose Control as Village Revolts

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As we've been telling you this week, tens of thousands of villagers are protesting in Wukan, in Guangdong Province. Now the situation has become a standoff as villagers have kicked out both local officials and police. That came after the suspicious death of one villager in police custody. Here's the latest.

The over twenty-thousand residents of the village of Wukan in south China's Guangdong Province have expelled all local Communist Party authorities, including police, and blocked road access to the village.

The British newspaper The Telegraph was able to get a journalist on the ground in Wukan on Tuesday. Malcom Moore called the current incident the first time on record that the Party has "lost all control" in a situation of "open revolt." This marks the latest escalation in an ongoing confrontation between villagers and local Communist Party officials they've called corrupt and abusive.

For three months, Wukan residents have been staging occasional large-scale protests against a longstanding series of abuses committed by local Party officials. The villagers' biggest grievance was corrupt officials profiting from illegally selling the villagers' land.

The current intensified protest, including the expelling of all police and officials, came after the death in Party custody of Xue Jinbo. He was a Wukan resident who had served as a negotiator with authorities. Party officials claim Xue died of "cardiac failure." But Xue's family say there was evidence of torture on his body, including broken thumbs and bruises.

By Monday, locals had stopped an attempt by hundreds of police and security personnel to enter Wukan. Those forces retreated to a backup location three miles distant, and are now blocking all food and water from entering the town.

As of now, at the fifth day of what some are calling a rebellion, police remain blocked from entering, and some townspeople are making comments suggesting that the confrontation has become about more than just land seizures.

The Telegraph quoted one villager as saying "We are not sleeping. A hundred men are keeping watch. We do not know what the government's next move will be, but we know we cannot trust them ever again."

The situation in Wukan remains uncertain. Other media have managed to enter the village. But anything about Wukan is being quickly censored on the Chinese internet.

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[c1umpdud]

See why they're trying to censor the internet in the United States now with SOPA and COICA/PROTECT IP acts??? They know what's coming

[scramblethink]

-These people are so brave!

....but It´s going to be a blood-bath, I think.

Sad.

[kojikik]

Just burn down the whole village. There r a hundred thousand more in china. Sun tzu art of war

[FUN61S]

all Americans are armed to the teeth

[FUN61S]

im so glad my dad has a n m4 12 gauge and an array of pistols

[nhattrungcao]

fuck you,china's government

son of bitch

[inyourface668]

let's drop some food and guns? come on, usa, i thought you knew how to throw a party.

[songleishiyulin]

@hsf155752 一点没骗人



[kushlife7]

FREE TIBETTTTT & DOWN WITH CHINA. 2012 CHINA WILL FINISH. MANY WILL DIE....RUNNNNNN.... China has caused enough damage to our Country & Exploitation is Enough. I will RIPP OFF EVERY LAST REMAINING ATOM OF CHINESE ORIGIN & THESE PARASITES WILL PERISH..... I HAVE SOOOO MUCH HATRED AGAINST THESE CHINKS, FREEE TTTIIIIIIIIBBBBBBEEEEEETTTTTTT­TTTTT.................. CHINA WILL ROTT IN 2012 & EARTHQUAKES WILL CRUSH UR TANKS & BONES AS GOD HIMSELF WILL DESTROY U WITH HIS NATURAL POWERS. LONG LIVE MY FE

[Kaiyrkz]

@mayjin10 Free Uygur, Mongol, manchu, zhuang too

[smart12day]

How long will it be before the police and the army side with the people and

How long will it be before the police and the army side with the people? How many have to suffer before you find your voices? Where are all those who support the Arab Spring only to ignore the Chinese Fall.I salute all of you brave souls in China, Good luck and God Bless you all.

[sureitan]

@ChineseEatBabies So superficial. There's no such thing of "real" han. Han is actually a mixed race..it is a unification of lots of tribes and cultures. Don't be jealous just because southern han are better in preserving tradition. And pls stop spreading rumors