• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Talk Vietnam

All About Vietnam

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Disclaimers
  • DMCA
  • Privacy Policy
  • Submit your story

20 farmers detained for fighting land revocation in northern Vietnam 

April 26, 2012 by

Police in Hung Yen Province are detaining 20 people who fought back when the government evicted them from their farmland Tuesday.

Around 500 police officers were sent to Van Giang District to revoke 5.8 hectares of agricultural land. Two police received slight scratches from people throwing rocks at them.

The land is being reclaimed and the farmers’ fields leveled for a major real estate project.

Bui Huy Thanh, the office head of the province People’s Committee, said “Police have arrested 20 people for extreme acts.”

He said they were “investigating people who led the fight” and had seized many sacks of bricks and stones that were used as weapons.

Later on the same day, the land was transferred to Viet Hung Urban Investment and Development, the investor of the US$6 billion Ecopark, a commerce and service urban area project approved by the government in 2003 to be built on 499 hectares, plus 55 hectares of roads connecting it to Hanoi.

Thanh said most of the land for the project had been handed over by locals previously, but some refused to receive the compensation of VND1.2 billion (US$576) per hectare, so the province had to use police force to take the land.

“The revocation was totally peaceful. There were no soldiers or gun fights,” he said in a report by news website VnExpress.

Dang Van Du, a local farmer who rejected the offer of VND120 million for his 0.1 hectare bonsai garden, told Tuoi Tre that his family “was given 0.1 hectares and we planted bonsai trees worth VND120-130 million each, but now all have been dug up.”

Thanh said the conflict between locals and the project began in 2004, when residents registered their first complaints about low compensation and the legitimacy of the project, with some demanding that it be canceled and the land returned to farmers.

“That is a totally unacceptable demand since the project was approved and directed by the Prime Minister, and related authorities have studied carefully the legitimacy of the project and have come up with a correct compensation amount for the farmers,” he said.

In Vietnam, the government owns all land. People are only given land use rights, which can be traded among residents. The land can be revoked under government orders with some compensation paid.

In January, a land revocation in Hai Phong grabbed national headlines for weeks after Doan Van Vuon and his father shot back at armed police and soldiers who came to implement the revocation, which was later deemed illegal by the Prime Minister.

Vuon is still facing charges for his violent resistance.

Like us on Facebook and scroll down to share your comment

  • Northern Vietnam teen in coma after cannabis use
  • Woodcarving masterpiece of old communal house in northern Vietnam
  • VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS NOVEMBER 11
  • VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES NOVEMBER 20
  • VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS NOVEMBER 22
  • Medicine, land baron detained for law violations
  • Gavin Newsom Leveling Farms to ‘Rethink’ Land Use in Climate Fight
  • Vietnam to build six more airports at cost of almost $18bn in next decade
  • Vietnam gets serious with emissions
  • VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES NOVEMBER 16
  • VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES NOVEMBER 17
  • From India to Brazil, farmers face ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ food crisis
  • VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS NOVEMBER 14
  • VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS NOVEMBER 17
  • Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa
  • Young Vietnamese farmers thrive in homeland with Israeli agriculture techniques
  • VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES NOVEMBER 15
  • A fight over water rights and sacred sites is coming to a head
  • How a boy from Vietnam became a slave on a UK cannabis farm
  • VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS OCTOBER 23
20 farmers detained for fighting land revocation in northern Vietnam  have 576 words, post on at April 26, 2012. This is cached page on Talk Vietnam. If you want remove this page, please contact us.

Filed Under: Peoplesociety most land in northern hemisphere, 19 & 20 had a fight. 21, farmer discovers cave in vietnam, mounties fighting in the northern territories, 20 ashwell avenue williams landing, revocation under the land use act, detained under mental health act northern ireland, houstonian detained in vietnam, northern vietnam 2 week itinerary, explain 19 and 20 had a fight 21, joke 19 and 20 had a fight, bsf lesson 20 day 2 promised land, bsf lesson 20 day 4 promised land, vietnamese american detained in vietnam, northern vietnam china, farmers market 101 and northern, farmers market 99th and northern, 20 month old fighting sleep, 20 month old fighting naps, 20 month old fighting bedtime

Primary Sidebar

RSS Recent Stories

  • Vietnam Airlines resumes direct flights between Da Nang and Japan’s Narita
  • Hanoi Tourism Festival 2023 kicks off
  • N.A. Chairman attends opening of National Tourism Year 2023
  • Vietnam saves 298,000 kWh during Earth Hour 2023
  • Prime Minister inspects major projects in Thua Thien Hue
  • Binh Dinh introduces economic, trade potential to Belgian businesses
  • Cruise ship brings more than 2,000 int’l visitors to Ha Long
  • Timely adjusting anti-COVID-19 measures to ensure public health
  • Vietnam Airlines’s flight schedule adjusted due to strike at Frankfurt airport
  • Top 10 Vietnamese construction material companies announced

Sponsored Links

  • UK, Denmark, and Australia Report Highest Daily Covid-19 Cases
  • Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian drama The Hand Of The God premieres on Netflix
  • The best movie scenes of 2021
  • Windows 11’s Default Command Line Catches up to Mac and Linux
  • What Is the Log4j Flaw, and How Does it Affect You?
  • Commander Keen 4: The First and Only Video Game I Loved
Copyright © 2023 Talk Vietnam. Power by Wordpress.
Home - About Us - Contact Us - Disclaimers - DMCA - Privacy Policy - Submit your story