Violence Over Property Rights Confronts Regime in China

The New York Sun reports on the struggle for property rights in China turned violent:

A dispatch Saturday from China's state-run news agency, Xinhua, accused demonstrators of "a serious violation of law." Xinhua said the villagers, who were protesting what they viewed as inadequate compensation for the use of their land for a new coal fired power plant, used "knives, steel spears, sticks, dynamite powder, bottles filled with petroleum, and fishing detonators" to attack the officers sent in to quell the disturbance.

No word yet on whether Chinese officials read the Kelo decision for inspiration.