Through a collective effort from the local government and private sector, poor and working class people from China are increasingly being evicted from their homes, stated a report released on Thursday by Amnesty International.
More than 41 cases of self-immolation have been collected by human rights group since January 2009 depicting resistance to local government’s forceful eviction.
Relocation of people has been steadily rising as Beijing ordered local governments to play a crucial role in stimulating the economy. Local government has seized land and sold development rights, noted during Beijing Olympics and Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
According to Amnesty International,
"These evictions are often marked by violence, committed both by state and private actors in pursuit of economic gain and, less commonly, by frustrated residents in desperate acts of protest and resistance."
State government has enacted polices addressing forceful evictions, but the regularities does not apply in rural areas where vast majority of the evictions are taking place.
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