Due
to discontent with the authorities’ compensation for his land plot, a
47-year-old Vietnamese farmer in Thang Binh District, central Quang Nam
Province committed suicide after attacking some local officials.
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Nguyen Van Tuong, an unmarried man in Binh Phuc Commune, killed himself yesterday morning after stabbing several officials with a knife at a meeting held by authorities about land withdrawal and relocation plan.
The authorities earlier issued a decision to withdraw 562 square meters of land he had bought and for which he had obtained a certificate of land use rights.
The authorities planned to compensate him with just VND21 million (US$1,000) for all of the land.
Nguyen Van Binh, Tuong’s close friend, said, “After receiving the land withdrawal decision from the authorities, Tuong said it was not satisfactory. At the meeting, after the authorities presented their resettlement plan for people whose land will be reclaimed, many locals wanted to voice their opinions but were rejected. Tuong then rushed to the officials, pulled out a knife from his trouser pocket, and stabbed some of them.”
After the sudden attack, Tuong rushed home and then returned, seeking an official who is in charge of site clearance. At this moment, police came and Tuong ran to his house again and killed himself a few minutes later, Binh said.
Locals placed Tuong’s body in a tent they set up, pending an autopsy by a competent agency. It is suspected that Tuong swallowed poison.
There was no report about the stabbed officials’ injuries.
“It took Tuong tens of years of toiling and sweating to buy that land,” Tuong’s mother said in tears. “Since the withdrawal decision was issued, he had experienced many days of sleeplessness.
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Nguyen Van Tuong, an unmarried man in Binh Phuc Commune, killed himself yesterday morning after stabbing several officials with a knife at a meeting held by authorities about land withdrawal and relocation plan.
The authorities earlier issued a decision to withdraw 562 square meters of land he had bought and for which he had obtained a certificate of land use rights.
The authorities planned to compensate him with just VND21 million (US$1,000) for all of the land.
Nguyen Van Binh, Tuong’s close friend, said, “After receiving the land withdrawal decision from the authorities, Tuong said it was not satisfactory. At the meeting, after the authorities presented their resettlement plan for people whose land will be reclaimed, many locals wanted to voice their opinions but were rejected. Tuong then rushed to the officials, pulled out a knife from his trouser pocket, and stabbed some of them.”
After the sudden attack, Tuong rushed home and then returned, seeking an official who is in charge of site clearance. At this moment, police came and Tuong ran to his house again and killed himself a few minutes later, Binh said.
Locals placed Tuong’s body in a tent they set up, pending an autopsy by a competent agency. It is suspected that Tuong swallowed poison.
There was no report about the stabbed officials’ injuries.
“It took Tuong tens of years of toiling and sweating to buy that land,” Tuong’s mother said in tears. “Since the withdrawal decision was issued, he had experienced many days of sleeplessness.
The
mother continued that at the dinner the day before, Tuong told her, “they [the
authorities] wanted to reclaim the land but the compensation they will pay is
inappropriate. If I fail to sue them, I would kill myself”.
Talking
with Tuoi Tre yesterday, Le Thi Thanh Mai, deputy chairwoman of the Thang Binh
District said she had not anticipated that such a heartbroken case would occur
and that after Tuong’s death, the authorities have convened an urgent meeting
to deal with the case.
Tuong’s
land includes 87.5 square meters of residential land and 423 square meters of
farmland. According to the draft relocation plan, Tuong was not among the
people who would be granted a resettlement land and he thus would be paid a
total compensation of just VND21 million, Mai said.
The
non-granting of a resettlement land to Tuong was based on a decision of the
provincial People’s Committee, Mai added.
However,
after Tuong complained against the decision, the district authorities agreed to
grant him a plot of 100 square meters, but Tuong proposed that the granted area
be 200 square meters.
“Tuong’s
proposal was based on his actual needs, but according to applicable
regulations, such a proposal could not be met,” said Nguyen Van Ngu, chairman
of the district’s People’s Committee.
Yesterday
afternoon, the authorities visited Tuong’s family and gave them VND30 million
as payment for funeral expenses and another amount for them to buy a
resettlement land lot.
The
district authorities have sent a report about Tuong’s case to the provincial
People’s Committee.
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