Chinese farmer fires home-made cannon to defend land

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Pardus

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BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese farmer has declared war on property developers who want his land, building a cannon out of a wheelbarrow and pipes and firing rockets at would-be eviction teams, state media said on Tuesday.

Yang Youde, who lives on the outskirts of bustling Wuhan city, in central Hubei province, says he has fended off two eviction attempts with his improvised weapon, which uses ammunition made from locally sold fireworks.

"I shot only over their heads to frighten them," the China Daily quoted him saying of his attacks on demolition workers sent to move him off his land. "I didn't want to cause any injuries."

The rockets can travel over 100 meters, and exploded with a deafening bang, the official paper added. It did not say if anyone had been injured.

His approach is more aggressive than most, but Yang's problem is a common one.

Anger over property confiscation is one of the leading causes of unrest in China, with many people forced to give up homes and land to make way for anything from roads to luxury villas.

Yang says the local government has offered him 130,000 yuan ($19,030) for his fields, on which they want to erect "department buildings." He is asking for five times that amount.

Construction ditches have already been dug across the land of less obstinate neighbors.

A first eviction team attacked him in February after his rockets ran out, but local police came to his rescue. In May he held off 100 people by firing from a makeshift watchtower.

The government is planning to reform property confiscation rules, but rights groups say the changes do not go far enough to address the potentially destabilizing issue.

(Reporting by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
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Eli

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Wait.. so who exactly is taking his land? It doesn't sound like the government. So just some private developer? How does that work, exactly?

That's fucked up.
 
Kadarin

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Who are these "eviction teams" that the local police would come to the guy's defense?
 
zinfamous

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This guy is awesome!
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damn straight! that's what I thought when looking at that pic. I think I see him grinning or laughing.

I wouldn't fuck with these guys. China had gunpowder 1000 years before the rest of the world. No telling what the ave rural farmer is packing in their cellar.
 
Nik

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zinfamous said:
damn straight! That's what i thought when looking at that pic. I think i see him grinning or laughing.

I wouldn't fuck with these guys. China had gunpowder 1000 years before the rest of the world. No telling what the ave rural farmer is packing in their cellar.
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zerg rush kekekekekekeke
 
sdifox

sdifox

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Fucking sad is all I can say, thousands of years of the same fucking bullshit. People's republic my ass.
 
Colt45

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Would be easier done if there were any communists left in China ;)

I'm not sure what the hell they have now, really.
 
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