Protesting the ban on conch farming, Guangdong villagers fight against Chinese armed police

[Epoch Times December 4, 2024] (Reported by Epoch Times reporter Gao Hui) On December 3, villagers in Chengwu Village, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, launched a "water war" with a large number of armed police and special police dispatched by the authorities. Due to the local government's policy of banning the cultivation of conchs, the villagers' main source of income has been cut off. The villagers have launched a rights protection action since the end of September, which has continued to this day. During this period, village cadres also led people to beat villagers. Local netizens broke the news that the village has summoned all the villagers for this purpose and recalled young and middle-aged people working outside to fight together. The video circulated on the Internet shows that a large number of armed police and special police dispatched by the local government are fully armed and attempt to violently quell the villagers' protests. In the video, the police cars dispatched by the ...