WUKAN, China (Reuters) - Zhuang Liehong, a 28-year-old cigarette and liquor salesman, was fed up. Businessmen were seizing land here in Wukan, his hometown fishing village in southern China. Village officials not only didn't help - they had secretly sold the land. Outside authorities did nothing. In 2009, Zhuang and a handful of other young villagers launched what they called the Wukan Hot-Blooded Patriotic Youth League. They began with a petition campaign. It was ignored. An early rally drew few supporters. They kept at it. By the fall of 2011, the village of 15,000 was in open rebellion. ...
Special Report: Freedom fizzles out in China's rebel town of Wukan
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:34:06 GMT
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