Epoch Times
Jul 2, 2010
by Gu Qinger & Gu Xiaohua

Chinese villagers, unwilling to have their property forcibly demolished, have seized 22 demolition vehicles as bargaining chips. One man was seriously injured and villagers are demanding resolution.

A villager was run over by a government vehicle during a June 21 confrontation between over 300 unarmed Qiantaobu village residents and a demolition team lead by the local Communist Party chief of Weizi town, Weifang City, Shandong province. Angered by this, local residents smashed the vehicle that caused the accident and drove the government officials out of the village.

In a June 24 interview, villagers said that after the incident the township officials went into the village to try to strike a deal for the return of their vehicles. However, the majority of the villagers did not want to talk about the forced demolition issue because the injured villager was still hospitalized. At present, officials are trying to deny that the government vehicle injured the villager.    more …