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Herdsmen Demand Answers, Compensation

2012. február 9./RFA/ITN/TibetPress

Uyghurs in China’s northwest say local authorities seized thousands of acres of their land.

More than 40 ethnic Uyghurs protested outside of a government office in China’s northwest Xinjiang region Thursday demanding that authorities return a portion of land they say was seized from them and given to Han Chinese as part of a municipal development plan.

The protesters, from Turpan prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, said that some 410,000 mu (67,500 acres) of their grazing land and 68 livestock pens were appropriated by local authorities in 2008 for the expansion of the regional capital Urumqi.

But they said that none of them had been offered compensation.

Abdurehim Abliz, a representative of the group from Toksun county’s Gholbiyi village, said that the herdsmen had hoped to speak with officials at the Urumqi municipal office about an edict which higher authorities had issued related to the appropriation of their land.

“We wanted to talk with officials today about why they took our land and how they intend to pay us. Of course we don’t want to disturb the public order—that is why we came armed only with papers,” he told RFA by telephone from the municipal office.

Cold weather

The herdsmen, who are used to the warmer climate of their home village, faced unexpectedly cold weather in Urumqi, wearing little clothing when they arrived at the building.

They were asked to wait to meet with officials of the petitioners’ department but none of the officials turned up, Abliz said.

“We have spoken with this department many times before and we are not very hopeful for this talk, but as a group representative I could not say ‘no’ to the offer because it is so cold … We had planned to talk with a different department.”

He felt that the department promised them the meeting in order to hide their protest from the public.

They plan to continue their protest on Friday.

“We are now at a motel, but we will gather in front of the government building again tomorrow.”

He said local officials from Toqsun county had repeatedly called the group, saying they would “forgive” them for holding the protest and pleading with them to return to their village.

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