Chinese dwarves set up their own village

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people.

The dwarves, happy in their village and apparently performing a musical number

Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3ins tall - and they run their own police force and fire brigade from their 120 residents.

Now the group has turned itself into a tourist attraction by building mushroom houses and living and dressing like fairy tale characters.

As small people we are used to being pushed around and exploited by big people. But here there aren't any big people and everything we do is for us,' said spokesman Fu Tien.

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