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Xian Xiyong cries after his mother, Li Jie'e, jumped off a building and died at a demolition site in Yangji village in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China on May 10, 2012.
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Demolition workers look at a building being taken down in Yangji village on March 21, 2012, the same day that Li Jie'e's home was reportedly destroyed.
A Chinese woman leapt to her death on Thursday in apparent despair over the demolition of her home. Li Jie'e's house in Guangzhou had been knocked down on March 21, according to local media reports cited by Reuters.
Li had been a resident of Yangji, a former village that has been swallowed up by the rapid expansion of Guangzhou, China's third-largest city with a population of over 12 million. In March, PhotoBlog reported on the desperate protests of another Yangji woman whose home had been destroyed to make way for new developments.
Hundreds of miles away in the city of Zhaotong, meanwhile, another woman was reported to have blown herself up on Thursday in a protest over the demolition of her house. The blast at a local government office killed the woman and two others.
Disputes over land rights are the leading cause of surging unrest across China, according to a study cited by Bloomberg News.
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Xian, center, the husband of Li Jie'e, accompanied by his son Xiyong, right, pushes his wife's body on a transport stretcher as another relative, left, burns incense in Yangji village on May 10, 2012.
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The Chinese government is so heartless & brutal! The global talk in the UN, and the rhetoric from our gov't about "Human Rights Violations" is an incredible farce!
Sanctions mean absolutely nothing when nations like Israel and China are repeated offenders, and business goes on as usual - A nation like Cuba on the other hand, gets trounced for doing far less! Deception and hypocrisy rule the venue of the so-called "United Nations!"
Israel---you mean Iran!!
What is the difference? NONE. The Jews are doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to them. All in the name of religion. How can White Europeans claim a portion of the Middle-East their homeland?
IndVoter : The Jews aren't burning Palestinians in ovens or digging big holes and dumping millions of machine gunned bodies into them.
How can White Europeans claim a portion of the Middle-East their homeland? Well, Muslims claim they own the whole planet. How can American Indians claim America is their homeland, when they immigrated from Asia? I'm not Politically Correct, so am unincumbered by the PC agenda.
Obama and Biden are friends with the Chinese.... re-elect Obama!!!
Actually it was Nixon who opened up to the Communist Chinese. Then the Republicans in the U.S. Congress permanently recognized China as a Most Favored Nation that allowed Corporate America to outsource consumer goods and high-value/high-tech manufacturing and supply chain to China.
Don't let your political bias keep you from improving your intellect, that is if you have any smarts at all.
yes, it is china a comunist country where housing is guaranteed i'm sure they got someplace nicer as the saying goes out with the old in with the new.
Sad,sad.sad.
The U.S. has no right trying to make any other country do as we wish they would. Look at the decades of atrocities committed against our own people here in the U.S. That was easy to forget, wasn't it. China is going to do what they have to do in the name of prosperity. At least they did not throw the woman off the building or blow up the office. Don't blame the Chinese government. They are only following the march forward to Capitalism. And who encouraged that? Western governments, including the U.S. Better dead than red, as the old saying goes.