Villagers take local official hostage - Mongolia

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1,000 villagers in Inner Mongolia encircled a government office, as rural Chinese angry over requisition programs increasingly take matters into their own hands

THE GUARDIAN , BEIJING
Saturday, Jul 30, 2005,Page 5

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More than 1,000 villagers in Inner Mongolia took the local Communist Party chief hostage Thursday in the latest land dispute to rock the Chinese countryside.
Amid signs of division in the government about how to handle rural unrest, the residents of Qianjin village have also driven off hundreds of armed police and blocked construction of a motorway they claim is being built through their crops and homes without adequate compensation.

"About 2,000 protesters have surrounded the local government office," a resident, who declined to give her name, told the reporters by telephone. "They are holding the general secretary and another official."

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