This rather shaky video was taken on Danxian Road, and appears to show the authorities removing banners attached to the roof of the apartment building.
More than 200 residents of an apartment block in the eastern coastal city of Qingdao have begun a protest after being ordered to vacate their homes, RFA’s Cantonese service reports.
“We have in the past received a notification order to evict our homes. But we didn’t know they would be coming today,” one resident of Danxian Road, part of Qingdao’s ‘golden mile’ of real estate near the city’s railway station, told RFA on Oct. 2.
One resident initially blogged about the protest, and an account of it appeared on the Qingdaonet BBS before being removed. A one-line reference is still visible on Google’s cached results.
A lot of people watched the protest, owing to the large numbers out for the holiday season, and to its proximity to the railway station. Many of the residents were employed by China’s national railways.
“I don’t know. I’ve never heard of it,” said a officer who answered the phone at the nearby Yunnan Road police station.
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Will RFA, being a responsible journalists, tell the Chinese people that “eminent domain” law exists in America as well, and we too have eminent doman abuses?