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Friday, May 11, 2012

The Chinese conquest of Africa




The Road to Serfdom Series
Communist Chinese "investors" are stealing land throughout Africa with the help of corrupt governments


The right to hold and own private property is central to freedom, but in Africa corrupt governments sell the land right out from under the local farmers with not a word of protest from the ruling Elites of the world.

A farmer in eastern Cameroon has challenged a government ruling forcing him to cede his land to Chinese rice farmers. The West African country has adopted a land redistribution policy that favours Chinese investors above its own citizens.


The Chinese conquest of Africa   (BBC News)




In Akak, in eastern Cameroon, the future of a family is at stake. Fa'a Embolo Joseph, a 59-year-old father of nine, might lose his 10,000 hectares of land to Chinese rice farmers. Since 2009, the Cameroonian government has been giving Chinese investors preferential treatment in land distribution matters.
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Fa'a Embolo Joseph

"My children are very worried. They know I am fighting for their future. If I don't do that, they might not inherit their ancestral land," says Joseph, who is determined to oppose the government's decision.

Three years ago Joseph was summoned to the village chief's office and was told to hand his land over to new Chinese owners, he says. "A couple of days later some people came to mark off the land. Then I shut off access to my land with three tree-trunks."

Intimidation

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Joseph was sentenced to a one year jail term for "rebellion". He decided to appeal, costing him 95,000 CFA (145 euros). It was not the first time he was penalized. Last year he served a four-month prison sentence for blocking the authorities - and the Chinese - from accessing to his land.
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Joseph says people in rural areas are often abused because they're ignorant. "In the villages, it often happens that the authorities try to cheat the population, the majority of whom haven't been to school."

He is angry that the authorities don't seem to care about his worries. "We still don't know if we will be compensated for the land loss and, if so, how much money we will receive." 

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"This land is very important to us. Our ancestors are buried here, and the forest feeds us with termites, worms and other produce."


(Farmland Grab.org)
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No Property Rights  -  Ethiopia sells out their own nation to foreign "investors"
  • In corrupt land deals the nation is sold off to Saudi Arabians and companies from India.
  • Ethiopia is becoming a "Food Colony" for other nations while their people go hungry.  


Ethiopia has made more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of “fertile and unutilized” land available for agriculture companies that meet government requirements, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said.

No mention is made about the people living and farming the land that the government decided to "make available."  The property rights of the average person has no meaning.

About 300,000 hectares has been leased for commercial farming so far, he said at an Ethiopian investment forum in the capital, Addis Ababa.

Their land is stolen and the world is silent



“There has been a significant flow into large-scale state- type commercial farming in our country and we seek even more in the future,” he said

Investors in Ethiopian land include Bangalore-based Karuturi Global Ltd. (KARG), the world’s largest rose grower, which is developing 100,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s southwestern Gambella region. The farm will have its first harvest in October, Managing Director Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi told the forum today.

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Horizon Plantations Ethiopia, which is majority owned by Saudi billionaire Mohamed al-Amoudi, leased a 20,000-hectare plot in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region in March to grow groundnuts to produce cooking oil.

(Farmland Grab.org)

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The Road to Serfdom Series

The world is moving toward a modern form of Neo-Serfdom where everyone works for the all-powerful State or businesses controlled by the State.  A world where individual property rights and economic freedom do not exist.  

FREEDOM IS VANISHING:   What happens when the major employers are owned by government backed investment groups, or your food comes from government owned farms, or your news is delivered by so-called "private" corporations but are in reality connected and interconnected to governments?

George Orwell had a name for it:  Big Brother.

Please check out other stories in our Serfdom series.

THE FEDERALIST - "China buys New Zealand - The Road to Serfdom, Part XVII"

THE FEDERALIST - "Arab Food Colonies in Black Africa."

THE FEDERALIST - "Chinese colonization of New Zealand blocked."

THE FEDERALIST - "Chinese "Slavery" in Africa - The Road to Serfdom, Part XIV."

THE FEDERALIST - "Argentina fights Saudi Land Grab." 

THE FEDERALIST - "LAND GRAB: 160,000 people thrown off their land."

THE FEDERALIST - "China is buying up Argentina." 

THE FEDERALIST - "Corporations use Global Warming to steal land." 

THE FEDERALIST - "China wants to buy a huge chunk of Iceland"

THE FEDERALIST - "China to buy up Australian farmland"

THE FEDERALIST - "Brazil takes action to protect their farmlands from foreigners"

THE FEDERALIST - "Saudi Arabian "Food Colonies" in Argentina"

THE FEDERALIST - "China buys oil fields in Texas"

THE FEDERALIST - "America is committing suicide - The Road to Serfdom, Part IV"

THE FEDERALIST - "The Road to Serfdom, Part III"

THE FEDERALIST - "Benito Mussolini was right"

THE FEDERALIST - "The Road to Serfdom, Part II" 

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