LiMa – learning from history – state owned land – Liu Xiaobo

It was precisely the “state-owned land” that “legitimized” the forced demolitions and resettlements

“The administrative statutes for the demolition and relocation of houses in cities” adopted by the State Council of the Chinese Communists and all corresponding regulations at all levels of government make the system of state ownership of land the source of their legitimacy, thus giving the authorities the power to take coercive measures such as demolition and relocation actions on any scale, and the developing economy the power to unilaterally set the prices of these actions.”

Liu Xiaobo, Writer, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize 2010

quoted from: Liu Xiaobo: “I have no enemies, I know no hatred; selected writings and poems; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main in 2013, p. 104