The ＂militia riot＂ in Oregon, USA, was a protest by cowboys against the occupation of the unmanned animal sanctuary building.

Yesterday, a report on "Militia Riot in Oregon, USA" triggered a hot discussion on the Internet. So, what is the situation? According to US media reports, it turned out that these "militiamen" were actually a group of cowboys who occupied the headquarters building of an animal sanctuary in Oregon to protest the federal government’s legal punishment for a local rancher and his son. Organizers also claimed that they did not want to use force, but would defend themselves. The so-called "occupation of the government" is because they occupied the headquarters building of Malur National Wildlife Refuge, which is managed by the US Fisheries and Wildlife Service. The reason why they can easily occupy it is that there is no one to go to work during the recent holiday.

On January 2, in Burns Town, Oregon, hundreds of demonstrators held a rally to protest the federal government’s legal punishment of a local rancher and his son.

The farmer and his son were sentenced for burning wasteland.

According to the local newspaper The Oregonian, earlier that day, hundreds of demonstrators held a rally in Burns Town, Oregon, in support of Dwight Hammond, a local rancher who had just been convicted, and his son Steven Hammond.

A person at the scene uploaded a photo of "Occupy" on Twitter.

Hammond and his son were sentenced to five years in prison by the US Department of Justice for arson. The prosecution had previously accused Hammond and his son of deliberately setting fires on public land in 2001 and 2006 to destroy the evidence of their illegal hunting.

However, Hammond and his son claimed that they were conducting "controlled" burning in their own land, with the purpose of "burning invasive vegetation" and "protecting private property from being swallowed up by wildfires".

Hammond and his son were earlier sentenced to three months and one year in prison respectively. But according to American federal law, arson should be sentenced to at least five years in prison. The US Department of Justice re-sentenced the two men this year, and they are scheduled to "report" to a federal prison in California on the 4 th.

According to CNN, the Hammond family is a cowboy family, which is quite prestigious in the local area. Old Hammond is 73 years old and young Hammond is 46 years old.

Demonstrator: I have no idea of using force, but I will defend myself.

On the morning of the 2nd, about 300 demonstrators held a peaceful rally in Burns Town. Subsequently, dozens of demonstrators with guns came to Malur National Animal Sanctuary, 80 kilometers away from Burns, and broke into the office headquarters building.

The Fish, Wildlife and Park Administration and the Bureau of Land Management, the superior agencies of the animal sanctuary, confirmed that the building was closed at the time of the incident and no one was working in it. The relevant departments have closed the situation and are paying attention to the progress of the situation.

Ammon Band-Aid, one of the organizers of the demonstration, told reporters: "We intend to stay here (until the matter is resolved), which is not a temporary idea. We have no idea of using force, but if someone uses force against us, we will defend ourselves. "

Band-Aid said that the case of Hammond and his son was a manifestation of "abuse of power" by government officials. He said that in order to expand the animal sanctuary, the federal government forced the local ranchers to buy land, which damaged the local agriculture and animal husbandry.

He said: "People like Hammond have the courage to stand up and refuse to sell land, so they are sentenced by the court and sentenced to five years!"

One of the organizers of the demonstration, Ammon Band-Aid, posted a video on Facebook asking for help.

Agence France-Presse reported that Band-Aid had a lot of connections. His father, Craven Band-Aid, is a famous "tough guy" in Nevada. Refusing to recognize the federal government’s ownership of its land, the tough old Band-Aid mobilized local ranchers in 2014 to confront federal law enforcement officers with guns. At that time, a large number of cowboys came to Nevada with guns from all over the United States to support Band-Aid. This incident was a sensation at that time, and old Band-Aid became a celebrity.

However, some local residents expressed dissatisfaction with the demonstrators’ practices. Monica McConaughey told reporters: "I don’t like what these’ militia’ do. They have held a rally as they wish, and now it is time to go home. They make us feel scared. "