Vietnam farmers protest land lost to
satellite city
(Nông dân VN biểu tình vì mất đất do xây dựng thành phố vệ tinh)
(AFP) – Feb 20, 2012
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EcoPark is the name of a satellite city being developed by private
company Viet Hung Co. Ltd., which the farmers say has been granted some 500
hectares (1,235 acres) of their land in Hung Yen province without proper
negotiations.
The Viet Hung company has been trying since 2004 to build the new city on the land, which is about 50 kilometres (31
miles) southeast of Hanoi,
for a total investment estimated at around 250 million dollars.
After a series of protests staged by the farmers in 2006, the project
was temporarily suspended, but the development has since restarted, the farmers
claim.
"They took around 2,100 square metres of my family's land for road
construction. We do not accept the compensation they offered. We don't want to
lose our land for this project," Vu Thi Thu, 63, from Hung Yen province,
told AFP.
"We are here to ask for intervention from the government. We want
our agricultural land back -- for our children," Thu said, adding that
there were seven people in her family and they could not afford to buy new land
elsewhere.
Land disputes with local authorities are an increasingly contentious
issue in communist Vietnam,
where all land is owned by the state and usage rights are not always clear or
protected.
The government says it provides adequate compensation for those being
relocated, but corruption among local officials alleged to have siphoned off
the allocated funds for personal use has led to increased unrest.
In a high-profile recent incident in the port city of Hai Phong, a farmer injured six police
officers as he resisted a forced eviction which Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung
later declared illegal.
Dung has vowed to punish corrupt local officials in that case and called
on local officials nationwide to "actively reconsider" their land
management policies.
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