In the poor and rural south of China, farmers' insurrections are getting more frequent and massive. Despite the brutal government repression. The last event – filtered out the tight censorship – happened in Sanzhou, a peasant village in the southern province of Guangdong, the same that about one year ago staged one of the bloodiest slaughters of the recent history of China.
It is years that farmers in Sanzhou are literally starving because of lack of farmlands.
They have been dispossessed by the central government by means of brute force, and their lands sold to stranger Chinese managers for 130000 yuan each mu (a Chinese agricultural gauge). Farmers without land have been compensated with less than 30000 yuan each mu, the residue being pocketed by corrupted local officers of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Repeated complaints by Sanzhou citizens, asking for land return or a fair compensation, have always been unheard. Meanwhile the construction of a huge granary on the dispossessed lands begun and eventually was brought to completion.

Three hundred people kidnapped. In the afternoon of Wednesday, November 8th the huge granary was inaugurated in the Sanzhou village with tens of local administrators together with the future wheat buyers, a thick delegation of Chinese businessmen coming from Great Britain, Germany, Thailand and Hong Kong. Almost three hundred people overall. When the well-dressed stranger managers and party representatives were about to cut the tape, the whole village (about five thousand people) surrounded the new building kidnapping everyone inside and asking for justice in return. Next morning hundreds of riot policemen arrived: after pouring tear-gas grenades on the protesters (with plenty of elderly people, women and children), they blindly thrashed them even arousing ferocious police dogs.

The farmers' voice. No comment on the repression came from the authorities. It seems that many people have been arrested, but nothing more is known as the zone has been closed by police enforcements.
Some of the farmers could anyway talk to local journalists before the blitz.
“Policemen arouse many German shepherds attacking also elderly people that were sitting down. They don't treat us as humans”, a protester said.
“The communist party – a senior declared – should serve the people, not the corrupted officers abusing poor farmers”
“Our country has become so rich to aid Africa – a younger observed – but we farmers are living in worse conditions than Africans! The government is interested only in economy growth, even if this means to leave the people without lands and with nothing to eat”.
“When we explained the strangers the reasons why we did this, one of them said that he will not buy the wheat harvested here to protest against the treatment that we have endured”.