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Mon, 21 May 2007 11:43
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BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Police clashed with protesters in southern China as thousands of farmers rioted over the nation's 'one-child' family planning policies, residents said.Farmers besieged up to four township governments in Guangxi province on Friday and Saturday, with police and protesters clashing in at least one demonstration, they said.The demonstrations occurred after local governments this month dispatched 'family planning work teams' to levy fines on families that were violating government population control policies, they said.One woman in Shapi township, speaking on condition of anonymity, said up to 20,000 people had gathered and rioted there on Saturday.'The farmers were really angry because the family planning team was going around to homes and making farmers pay fines if they had too many kids,' the woman told Agence France Presse.'If the farmers had no money they took things from them. Property with value they confiscated, things with no value they destroyed.'Local and provincial government and police departments refused to comment on the unrest.On Friday, similar demonstrations erupted in neighbouring Shuiming township, with locals confronting up to 1,000 police armed with clubs and dogs, one witness said.afp
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