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Friday, March 04, 2011

Prey Lang villagers speak out

May Titthara

Chheang Vuthy, from Kampong Thom province, speaks at a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday Organised by NGO Forum in effort to find a resolution to the dispute Prey Long. (Photo by: Pha Lina)

Friday, 04 March 2011

The Phnom Penh Post
Representations for villagers embroiled in a land dispute with Vietnamese-owned CRCK Rubber Development Company
in Kampong Thom province said officials have used intimidation to halt protests over the company’s development of an area in Prey Lang forest.

The claims were made at a press conference held by the NGO Forum, an umbrella group of organisations operating in Cambodia, during which representatives said local police have compiled a list of villagers they say are inciting others to protest.

Last month hundreds of residents from four provinces surrounding the 200,000 hectare forest defied police and local officials to protest the clearing of sections of the forest by CRCK.

Sandan district Governor Sim Vanna said at the time that CRCK had been granted a 6,044 hectare land concession by the government last year to plant rubber.

Kampong Thom deputy Governor Uth Sam An said on Monday that the land being developed by KRCK was

not communal land, as alleged by local villagers, but part of a concession made to a previous company,

and therefore villagers had no right to the land.

During yesterday’s workshop, villager representatives claimed that police from three communes in Sandan district had visited five villagers to record their names for a complaint to be filed by CRCK in provincial court, claiming they were illegally inciting residents to protest.

Die

Begründungen

sind immer wieder originell... Zirkelschluss par excellance.

Und es wird gezielt per Gericht
gegen die Wortführer der Protestler vorgegangen. 

Punish one to educate thousands

Mao cchiavelli;.)))

© Expat

dollar question: Who gets the wood from the clearing of 6000 ha?

and at what price?