"At Least 10 Vietnamese Arrested Amid Forced Evictions in Land Grabs in Danang", 15 November 2018

Authorities in central Vietnam’s coastal city Danang...ordered the detention of at least 10 protesters who opposed being forcibly evicted from their homes in the latest development in a long-running land grab case in Con Dau parish....

About 500 people, including policemen and security guards, were mobilized along with an ambulance, a fire truck, and a digger to forcibly evict seven families and demolish their homes in the Catholic community in Cam Le district to make way for an ongoing ecotourism development project....

...The families say they have been shortchanged on the compensation that officials have offered them for their homes and the land on which they cultivate rice.

The development project was initiated in 2008 with investment from the privately-owned Vietnamese real estate developer Sun Group after the Danang government decided to expropriate the land of Con Dau parish a year earlier and to demolish all houses there.

...“This appears to be a clear case of land grabbing for the benefit of private entrepreneurs and at the expense of local communities,” Raquel Rolnik, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to housing, said in a statement at the time.