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 |  Subject: Wukan seige: Corrupt and immoral Chinese government vows to hunt down rebel village 'leaders'  Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:08 am | |
| The Chinese government has vowed to hunt down and "severely punish" the men it believes are leading a rebellion in Wukan, the southern village that is now on the fifth day of a police siege.
Wu Zili, the acting mayor of Shanwei county, where Wukan is situated, said that the government would resolve the situation in the village "according to the law" and that it would "take the merits of the villagers' demands into consideration".
However, he warned, "the authorities will firmly crack down on anyone who organises and incites the villagers".
In a statement to the Chinese state media, the first published acknowledgement of the ongoing strife in Wukan, Mr Wu named two of the village's representatives, Lin Zulian and Yang Semao, as ringleaders of the protests.
"Since December 8, Lin Zulian and Yang Semao organised and incited the villagers to set up barricades around the village. They did this to prevent officials from entering the village and to stop the perpetrators of the earlier riots from leaving the village and turning themselves into the authorities," he said.
He added that the Chinese government was working to resolve the village's issues. But that "since Lin Zhulian and Yang Semao have spread rumours and encouraged these barricades our work has been set back."
Mr Zu also said that an attempt by 1,000 armed police to enter Wukan last Sunday had been a response to the plight of 60 hotel guests who had been trapped behind the village's barricades.
Since Sunday, Wukan has been besieged by a police cordon that is stopping food and water from entering the village, and villagers from leaving. All of the village's Communist party officials and police have fled, after a series of protests by the villagers, upset at having their land sold off to property developers from underneath them.
Mr Lin, known in the village as Uncle Lin, lives in a three-story house in the centre of the village and is being guarded behind solid steel doors. One of the 13 representatives chosen to represent the village in negotiations with the government, alongside Mr Yang, he has been the channel through which the local government has been discussing a resolution.
"He is a former army man with connections to the central government," said Mr Yang. "He is a man of substance who we all trust." Yesterday, despite the government's bombast, Mr Lin again received a liaison from the local authorities, although it was unclear what was discussed.
Mr Yang, meanwhile, said he was aware that he was in an extremely dangerous position. "I know the danger, but the interests of the village come above my personal safety," he said. "But I am staying in busy central areas and always in a crowd because I am worried that they might try to snatch me. We will keep fighting."
Mr Lin and Mr Yang appear to be the most senior members of the village, but Mr Yang said he was not an "organiser". As thousands of villagers took part in a marched rally through Wukan on Thursday, Mr Yang said he had cautioned them against it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8957781/Wukan-seige-Chinese-government-vows-to-hunt-down-rebel-village-leaders.html
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