The First Wave – Online Support! Taiwanese People Stand Up for Rural Village with Night Vigil on Kategalan Blvd

With the purpose of developing Central Taiwan Science Park, local government officials forcibly entered farmers rice fields, purposefully ruining the crops.

This has highlighted the government’s abuse of administrative powers in expropriation issues.  Currently in Taiwan, many areas of high quality farmland are falling into the hands of industrial developers, who are speculating and acquiring previously forbidden land through savage expropriation acts, infringing on the local peoples human rights as well as their rights of ownership – an unprecedented crisis in the development of agricultural land in Taiwan.

Through the internet-medium, citizen journalists have set in motion a ‘Stand Up for the Village’ initiative, and hope that through ‘facebook’, they can make known Taiwanese peoples’ support for farming communities.

The First Wave – Online Support!  Taiwanese People Stand Up for Rural Village with Night Vigil on Kategalan Blvd
URL: https://www.peopo.org/news/55502

以下是中文原文:

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台灣中部地區為了科學園區的開發，地方政府強制將怪手開進農民的稻田中毀損稻作，突顯出政府濫用行政權力強制徵收農地的問題。台灣多處優質農地正大規模地淪陷為工業用地，成為政商炒地皮或累積資本的禁臠，徵收暴行不但侵害農民的居住權與生存權，也是台灣農業發展的空前危機。

公民記者在網路上發起「全民挺農村」的活動，希望透過facebook的串連，讓台灣民眾表達支持農業的想法。