A Chinese agriculturalist escaped his motherland after realizing local authorities could make him “disappear” at any moment after depriving him of his right to reclaim land—and using hired thugs to put him heavily in debt.
“There’s no law in China,” he told the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times on May 4.
He Yu, a farmer from Gansu, a province in north-central China, made it safely to America on April 7. Recalling the conflict with his local village committee in 2015, he said that disaster could have befallen him if he had not exercised considerable self-control at the time.
His case echoes the plight of many Chinese who have been left with little to nothing after being forcibly evicted from their property by authorities, often to make way for development projects….