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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Chinese villagers, police clash |
 | | Police raided four villages in Hezhou in Guangxi province on Thursday and seized firearms, ammunition, explosives, detonators and machetes, said the Legal Express, which is published by the Guangxi branch of the Communist Party. |
 | | Yang Shengdong, the number-two Communist Party official in Hezhou city, led the raid, the newspaper said, adding that a vice mayor and the municipal police chief had also taken part. |
 | | Land disputes, corruption, abuse of power and a widening gap between the rich and the poor were among the reasons leading to the number of protests shooting up to 74,000 last year from just 10,000 in 1994, a Hong Kong newspaper reported last month. |
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