| | Some 1.5 million Chinese have been forced from their homes during
preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Geneva-based
Center on Housing Rights and Evictions said Tuesday.
China rejected the figures as groundless and said some 6,000 families had been compensated and properly resettled.
"Our research shows that little has changed since 1988 when 720,000
people were forcibly displaced in Seoul, South Korea, in preparation
for the Summer Olympic Games," said Jean du Plessis, COHRE's executive
director. "It is shocking and entirely unacceptable that 1.25 million
people have already been displaced in Beijing."
Some 6,037 households have been demolished since 2002 to make way for
nine venues in preparation for the Beijing Games, Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.
[from courant.com]
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