乌坎村

乌坎村的选举就好像公共汽车。

Elections in Wukan are like buses .

在乌坎村大约7000名登记选民中，有约70%的人参加了投票。

About 70 per cent of the roughly 7,000 registered voters in the village turned out .

可是，广东省高层官员同意乌坎村重新举行选举，并调查相关土地交易。

Instead , senior provincial party officials agreed to fresh elections and to investigate the land deals .

朱明国表示，一部分被侵占的土地将在5月1日前归还乌坎村。

Mr Zhu said part of the land seized would be returned to communal ownership by May 1 .

的确，乌坎村打出的标语之一是：没有中央，我们解决不了任何事。

Indeed , one of the chants that went up in the village was : Without the central government , we cannot solve anything .

“他们对我们的建议作出了积极的回应，答应在两天内释放我们的三位年轻人，”乌坎村的代表林祖栾表示。

" They gave a positive response to our suggestions and agreed to release our three young people within two days , " said Lin zuluan , a village representative .

根据官方网站上的一份声明，负责调查乌坎村事件的广东省工作组专项小组发现，薛昌和村委会原主任陈舜意涉及腐败和操纵选举等问题。

A provincial taskforce , set up to investigate events in Wukan , found that Mr Xue and Chen Shunyi , the former head of the village committee , were guilty of corruption and manipulating elections , according to a statement on an official website .