Yunnan, suicide attack over forced demolition
Beijing (AsiaNews / Agencies) - A woman blew herself up
in front of an office for a demolition in Baihetan (Qiaojia County, Yunnan).
Local
residents say that the woman made the extreme act out of desperation because her
house had to be demolished to build a hydropower station. But
Xinhua said suicide victim was a 26
year old man and that it had nothing to do with the project and demolitions.
On
the evening of May 10, Xinhua reported that a woman had detonated a suicide
bomb outside the office of the demolition of Baihetan, before signing the
agreement for her displacement elsewhere. But
yesterday morning the agency published another news item stating that the
suicide bomber was a young man of 26 years, Zhao Dengyong and that "we are
investigating whether his motives were related to the demolition."
The
explosion caused three victims: one is the office manager; the other two are
locals. There are also 16
wounded.
Local
newspapers and residents report that suicide bomber was actually a woman from
the village of Pingzi, one of the areas where allocated
for the demolition of houses to make way for construction of a hydroelectric
plant since 2004. All
the villagers are angry because the government has offered a compensation of 60
- 80 000 yuan (about 6-7 thousand Euros) per mu (666 square meters),
but everyone knows that the government will sell the land at a much higher price.
Yesterday
was the last day to apply for compensation by signing the agreement for
demolition, along with the promise to be relocated elsewhere.
It
is the first case in China
of a suicide attack linked to the problems of demolition and expropriation.
The
requisition of land or houses and lack of adequate compensation are the main
cause of the so-called "mass incidents". In 1994
there were 8,700 of these "accidents". In 2006 there were 127 thousand. In 2010 the figures were around 180 thousand cases.
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