Thousands of Chinese riot police have surrounded a town in the south of the country by cutting off supplies of food and water to extinguish a series of riots. This is done by the Chinese police and the Government, with the aim to kill all the people in the city with no weapons. So reported the Sydney Morning Herald.
For months, about 20,000 people living in Wukan, located near the city of Shanwei in Guangdong Province, protested because their land was confiscated and sold at local government. The police then carried out a brutal tactics to control the situation.
Recent protests broke out last Sunday when police tried to arrest a citizen. Citizens were armed with sticks against the arrest. Police then fired tear gas before the retreat.
At the same time, the local government to make citizens into boiling anger when it recognizes that Jinbo Xue, a 43-year-old butcher who has represented residents in negotiations with the government, died in police custody because of "heart failure". Xue was arrested last week and accused of inciting unrest.
The news circulating said Xue's family found a number of broken bones when they receive the body. On Monday, about 6,000 people attended the funeral of Xue and photographs of the funeral crowd circulated widely on the Internet in China.
"We are very sad and angry over his death," said one resident who declined to be named. "He's just a negotiator who spoke with the government, which tried to get our land back. He defended the rights of peasants.''
Residents said the blockade had been imposed and the supply of foodstuffs, including rice, thinning. "Many police officers gathered outside the village," wrote one resident on the site Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, who calls himself Charles Suen.
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