Vietnam Tightens Land Seizure Law After Farmers Protest
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Hoang Anh Tuan learned over a loudspeaker that local Communist Party officials were seizing his farm in a village just outside Hanoi. A property developer wanted to build apartments on the land.
Tuan and about 360 families in the village of Duong Noi still oppose the evictions that began in 2008, leading to clashes with police earlier this year that saw Tuan and others block bulldozers seeking to flatten their land. Now, the farmers say they hope Vietnam’s newly-revised laws will give them some rights in a country where all land belongs to the state under the constitution.