Chapter 10 Tyranny and Crisis (2)

On January 7, 2014, Li Dongdong, a villager from Hewan Village in Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, was stabbed to death for stopping the forced illegal occupation of land. Hundreds of villagers stopped the forced construction and clashed with the construction team and another villager, Li Weinan, was stabbed and seriously injured.

On October 14, 2014, a fierce clash between villagers and hundreds of demolition-armed construction workers in the rich village of Jinning, Kunming, resulted in six deaths on the construction site, two deaths occurred among villagers, and a total of eight injuries on both sides.

On July 28, 2014, a court in Weifang, Shandong Province, sentenced Ding Hanzhong, a 53-year-old villager a death penalty because he had hacked two demolition workers’ to death with a sickle in a clash with several demolition workers on Sept. 25, 2013, a tragic case that has been banned by the Chinese Communist Party.

The above examples are from the demolition cases recorded in 2014 by a law firm in Beijing that specializes in litigating for demolition families. There are many millions of similar cases of forced demolition, black demolition and blood demolition in China.

Many people have been displaced by the brutal demolition and they have nowhere to complain about their grievances. Some of them have petitioned for redressal. The Chinese Communist Party has always shirked its responsibilities towards petitioners and many of those who petitioned in Beijing had no way to seek redressal and were left on the streets. Most of the provinces took the petitioners back to their places of origin and digested them locally, leaving them with no place to live, no means of livelihood and on the streets. On November 5, 2018, hundreds of pneumoconiosis workers went to the Shenzhen government for three days in a row to demand compensation.

Early in the morning of August 17, 2018, the government of Nantong, Jiangsu Province, led a 200-strong demolition team to forcibly demolish three residential houses in a storm, two of which were for people like Zhang Wugong with disabilities who was nearly 80 years old and had been hemiplegic for more than 20 years.

In the early morning of October 30, 2018, dozens of forced construction teams in Harbin’s Songbei District sealed doors and blocked roads to forcibly demolish the residential home of the disabled Zhang Tiehua family. They dumped soil and rocks on Zhang’s family to force them to move out. The Harbin visitors who rushed to the scene accused the forced eviction as despicable behavior. They were injured by the construction team who deliberately reversed the car to beat up the Zhang family .

On October 28, 2018, 10 old workers from Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province’s wollastonite group, representing more than 150 retired homeless households, petitioned in Beijing and at 2:00 a.m. and on the 29th, the Beijing General Security Bureau barged into their residence, violently twisted them into the car, punched and kicked them. Zou Yongzhen, an old man, was beaten up and had several incisors and taken back to Jiangxi.
    
A petitioner from Hebi, Henan province, was escorted to his hometown and his escort stabbed him to death on the way home.

Many of the petitioners who were living on the streets of Beijing did not want to be repatriated and had nowhere to spend the night and so they found some cardboard boxes and slept on the streets of Daxing County, forming a “petition village” and surviving by begging.

In November 2017 a bizarre fire broke out at midnight in Beijing’s Daxing County in the affordable rental house in Jufu Park in which 19 people were pronounced dead officially but actually more than 40 had been burned to death according to popular rumors.

After the Daxing fire tragedy, Beijing CCP head Cai Qi quickly deployed the city’s major cleanup and remedy operations to demolish illegal buildings. From November 21, the city mobilized a forced relocation team composed of police, urban management, etc., to launch a 40-day investigation and cleanup operations. They cut power and water supply. All the small shops, small workshops, households, etc., which were classified into the scope of relocation and demolition were cleaned up within 3 days. In less than a week, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from the city’s districts and counties. They were dragged out with their bags on the streets in the cold and were left in dismay to find another way to live.