Two and a half months have passed since the bloody massacre in Dongzhou village, Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, when government forces fired on villagers who were protesting the expropriation of their land. Since the massacre, the government has set up a tight blockade of the village. They continuously tap telephones, search and arrest villagers.
For more than seventy days, Dongzhou villagers were afraid to visit other villagers or answer telephone interviews. On January 24, all patients at the hospitals were forced to go home to their villages. After the Chinese New Year, the suppression by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) escalated. Villagers were once again arrested, tortured, and interrogated. They can no longer tolerate the maltreatment.
Orphans Beg in the Streets
On the morning of Feb. 18, at 8 a.m., victims of the Shanwei incident and family members of those missing and arrested escorted a dozen orphaned children, who have no income to survive on, to Dongzhou Second Village, where they started begging in the street. Relatives of missing villagers cried openly for justice, and a crowd gathered. Villagers expressed concern that the CCP’s unscrupulous humiliation of innocent people would spark a rebellion.
