“The beautiful town I once knew has slowly been shoveled away and overrun by bulldozers and tractors. My despair can hardly be described. Just by looking at what happened to my family, you can see the outrageous lack of rights for all farmers in China. Public officials have no pity on these people.”
Mr. Xu, of Luotian County, Hubei Province, voiced these thoughts during an interview by The Epoch Times . Luotian County, with the excuse of “industrial purposes” forced the farmers to sell a total of over 3000 mu (about 500 acres) of land at ridiculously low rates.
Mr. Xu said, “My efforts and protests have accomplished nothing. We have absolutely nothing to rely upon; the land I stand on today could be gone tomorrow.”
Fenced farmlands. The Epoch Times
