Thursday, October 11, 2012

China, forced displacements alert

Forced evacuations in China have increased dramatically in recent years, while the authorities give priority to the development of business, without taking into account the rights of indigenous peoples.

Alarm was given on Thursday by "Amnesty International", which forced evacuations as one of the "most serious violations" of human rights.

Even more disturbing is the fact that the pressure under which placed local officials to achieve economic rates imposed by the central government, makes it even more difficult considering the needs of the residents of the dispossessed.

As a result of this practice gjithëpërhapur, numerous protests were conducted in many different provinces of China, many of which are fiercely suppressed by the authorities.

According to the constitution, all land in China belongs to the state, and local governments have to manually assign different areas of economic development and industrialization.

Several years ago, almost three million people were displaced after the construction of the world's largest hydropower plant in central China, while tens of thousands of people were forced by violence to flee their homes in Beijing, because in that area were built complexes hosted Olympic Games of riots in 2008.