"Villagization" - forcing isolated peasants into larger communities - would be stepped up, as would the resettlement of families to potentially more fertile grounds.

Those who forced peasants to pay taxes and oppressed them lost the moral right to rule over others.

A township leader conspires to get rich by forcing peasants to plant mulberry trees, for which he sells the seeds.

Stalin miscalculated in the 1920's when he forced peasants onto collective farms after murdering many prosperous farmers.

The contras are also still carrying out unpopular actions such as forcing peasants to join their ranks and attacking rural cooperatives.

All that changed last year, when he organized a rare class-action lawsuit against the local government for forcing peasants to have late-term abortions and be sterilized.

China achieved its progress in part through coercive steps, like barring peasant families from moving to the cities and forcing peasants to work on community health projects.

Two days later, a law was passed forcing peasants who could not meet their grain quotas to surrender any livestock they had.

The government heavily subsidized large-scale industrial farm owners, while violently forcing peasants off of their land, claiming that they were using it "inefficiently".