Shengyou

Shengyou (simplified Chinese: 绳油; traditional Chinese: 繩油; pinyin: Shéngyóu) is a village in Kaiyuan (开元镇) south of the Dingzhou City in Hebei Province, China.[1][2] On the night of April 20, 2005 and later in the early morning of June 11,2015 occurred incidents in which over two hundred allegedly hired thugs descended on a village in northern China and clashed with local residents over a land dispute. Seven people were killed and 48 others injured and hospitalized, eight of whom in critical condition.[3] The chaos was captured on video by one of the farmers and later released by Washington Post.

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  1. ↑ 2016年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：开元镇 [2016 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Kaiyuan Town] (in Simplified Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2018. 139001113205 220 绳油村村委会
  2. ↑ 开元镇 [Kaiyuan Town]. 行政区划网站 www.xzqh.org (in Simplified Chinese). 行政区划网站/区划地名网站 (Administrative Divisions Web/District Geographic Names Web). 1 July 2010. Retrieved 24 July 2018. 代码 130682113：{...}～205 绳油村{...}
  3. ↑ "Thugs attack Chinese village, kill 6". Taipei Times. Retrieved 4 April 2015.

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