「广东怀集村民与强征队发生激烈冲突（2025.11.12）」本周三（11月12日），广东省肇庆市怀集县冷坑镇桐光村的村民，因为一块被村委私自转卖的集体土地，与强征人员从白天一直对峙到深夜，期间，双方多次发生冲突。
据村民透露，被私自卖出的土地将用于修建一条公路，相关款项已被私吞，村民直到该公路开始施工后才发现土地被卖。更令村民愤怒和担忧的是，这条公路建成后，将服务于一家在建的大型养猪场。村民们担心，该养猪场一旦建成投产，其产生的臭水和臭气将对桐光村的环境造成严重污染，届时桐光村将不再适宜居住。
出于对生存环境的担忧和对土地被强占的愤怒，桐光村村民于今年8月发起维权行动，阻止施工。10月17日，村民曾拦截了多辆施工车辆，并与进村试图强行开走车辆的人员发生冲突。在村民的坚守下，该工程至今处于停工状态。
11月12日，当地政府再次出动大量人员进村，意图强行动工。据目击者称，当天共有三辆满载强征人员的大巴车以及两辆救护车进入桐光村。强征人员到达现场后，手持盾牌组成人墙，以阻止村民靠近施工地点。村民闻讯后燃放烟花示警，呼唤更多村民前来支援。双方随后发生冲突，村民搭建的维权帐篷被拆毁，一名女性村民受伤。愤怒的村民一度向强征人员投掷泥土抗议。尽管村民多为妇女和老人，但他们仍坚持与强征队对峙至深夜，期间，双方再次发生冲突。之后，当地政府又调集大量警察进村，试图以武力平息抗议。
村民表示，由于人数悬殊，他们未能有效阻止施工，但誓言将继续守护家园。一位村民在社交媒体上发布信息称，她将每日更新维权信息，“如果哪天我们不再发声，可能就是被抓了。”
“Guangdong Huaiji Villagers Clash Fiercely with Forced Land Expropriation Team (Nov 12, 2025)”
On Wednesday, November 12, villagers in Tongguang Village, Lengkeng Town, Huaiji County, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, clashed with a land expropriation team over a piece of collectively owned land that had been secretly sold by the village committee. The standoff lasted from day to night, with multiple clashes breaking out during the confrontation.
According to villagers, the land was secretly sold for the construction of a new road, and the payment had already been embezzled. Villagers only discovered the sale when road construction began. What angered and worried them even more was that the road would serve a large pig farm being built nearby. Villagers fear that once the farm begins operation, the wastewater and foul odor it produces will severely pollute the environment, making Tongguang Village uninhabitable.
Out of concern for their living environment and anger over the land seizure, the villagers launched a protest in August to block the project. On October 17, they intercepted several construction vehicles and clashed with personnel who tried to drive them away. Thanks to the villagers’ persistence, the construction has remained suspended since then.
On November 12, the local government once again sent a large number of personnel into the village to forcibly resume construction. Witnesses said that three buses filled with expropriation workers and two ambulances entered Tongguang Village that day. The workers, carrying shields, formed a human wall to prevent villagers from approaching the site.
Villagers set off fireworks to sound the alarm and called for more people to come and help. Clashes soon erupted. The villagers’ protest tents were torn down, and a female villager was injured. In anger, some villagers threw dirt toward the expropriation team. Although most protesters were women and elderly people, they continued confronting the team until late at night, during which more clashes broke out. Later, the local government deployed large numbers of police to the village in an attempt to suppress the protest by force.
Villagers said they were outnumbered and could not stop the construction, but vowed to continue defending their homeland. One villager posted on social media:
“I’ll keep posting updates about our protest. If one day you no longer see our voices online, it probably means we’ve been taken away.”