Wednesday, June 21, 2006

The land grabber: A powerful well-connected general belonging to the Hun Sen regime

Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Villagers Say Minister's Brother Grabbed Their Land

By Pin Sisovann
The Cambodia Daily

Around 100 villagers from Kbal Spean village in Poipet commune, many bearing pictures of Prime Minister Hun Sen and Bun Rany, protested in front of the National Assembly Sunday and Monday claiming that their land was illegally grabbed earlier this month by Minister of Defense Tea Banli's brother General Tea Soth. The protesters said they cleared mines from the land and received a letter of approval of occupation from commune officials in 1997. Documents show that Co-Ministers of Interior Sar Kheng and You Hokry granted part of the land to Military Region 5, but villagers claim that senior military officials have fenced off the entire 120 hectares. Lon Nok, a representative of the villagers, said that a plot measuring 1,560 by 400 meters has now been sold to the Star Vegas casino and that the remainder was distributed among 10 families with the same family name as Tea Soth. Tea Soth could not be contacted for comment. Tea Banli said his older brother had compensated the previous residents of the land years ago. "My brother, Soth, solved the issue properly and legally years ago," he said.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

IN these days, all ministers and limitaries leaders of Cambodia included the prime Minister Hun Sen are no longer people with with respect. They are all robbers, mafias leaders etc... They take everything they like without shame. They treated people just like animals because they have all the weaponeries to suppress them. Not only immobiles properties which they want to take for themself, even woman in the street, they don't whose wife and whose daughter, they arrest them and used them for their sexuality desire. Cambodia is now full of anarchy. we really world attention to this long civilised society which is now being fallen in the hand of new evils ( after pOl pot). We need united nation attention to rescue this country back from these evils leaders.

Anonymous said...

man how long will Cambodian learn how to take action at their own wills. If the laws doesnt apply to the government why don't all Cambodia take the laws and put the government in the people laws. Shit man do I have to tell all of you how to take out CPP official!

Anonymous said...

This former khmer rouge card are still using their old way to treat Cambodian people. Usually Armies must work to protect people, but all khmer rouges leaders are using armies to wage wars with their own people.

Anonymous said...

These idiots Tea Banh, Tea Vin, Tea soth were used to be drunkers and unemployed kids in the province of Koh Kong. Their fortunes have flooded to them when the country was colonised by Vietnamese from 1979 onward. If Cambodia is really independent, these monkies cannot be acting like this at present. Cambodia is now being controled indirectly by vietcong. In 1997, when Hun Sen wanted to drive Rannarith out, Vietcong forces have invaded to Takeo and Kg Cham to intervenne Hun Sen. The Vietnam government has used these monkies to destroy Cambodia while their troops are ready to support them in case of uprising against Hun Sen.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen has long been declared war with Khmer People, while Khmer not knowing this. Just like Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime, back in the 70's. They had mastermind themselves to take over Cambodia and exterminate all Khmer People. We as Khmer need to wake up and need to Delcare War with a Hun Sen. Then the would world will he us to fight ah Hun Sen and drove him out of power.

Ahh Hun Sen needed to be Assiniated. Why is it so hard for someone to just pull a gun at ah Evil HunSen? while on the other hand it's so easy for somone to pull a gun at a good President like President Kennedy and his brother?