The BBC's Damien Grammaticas meets people who have been attacked and forcibly evicted from the homes. Land grabs are a way of shoring up the debt ridden local governments who sell off the land to property developers in order to balance the books. Increasingly violent confrontations between locals and officials are becoming more common, with accidental deaths and savage beatings being doled out to the people who dare to defend their land.
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