2012-05-11

Chinese female suicide bomber ends land dispute

A land dispute back in January ended in a similar fashion.

Suicide bomber kills 3 in land grab protest
A woman suicide bomber killed three other people and injured 15 when she blew herself up yesterday while protesting against the forced demolition of her home in Yunnan's Qiaojia county.

Violent protests and suicides are increasingly common as people fight back against the requisitioning of land by local governments. But this is believed to be the first time a female suicide bomber has taken the lives of others to protest at a land grab.

Guangzhou-based rights lawyer Tang Jingling said it was a landmark incident. People had now realised that "taking their own lives is no longer enough to stop bulldozers from destroying their homeland".

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