Sunday, January 14, 2007

Cambodian Government Slammed for Letting Vietnamese Companies Destroy Forests

07 Jan 07 - 08 Jan 07

By Samnang
Samleng Yuveakchon Khmer (Voice of Khmer Youth)

Translated from Khmer

The Royal Government and Ministry of Agriculture recently decided to grant tens of thousands of hectares of forested lands to Vietnamese companies under the term of "concession lands" in Kompong Thom, Kratie, Rotanakiri, and other provinces. These Vietnamese companies have used the word "investment" in acacia, Para rubber, and other industrial crops to secure contracts on these lands from the Royal Government of Cambodia [RGC] and some of these companies are already beginning to tear down Cambodia's forests in a most resolute manner.

It was recently reported from Sontuk district, Kompong Thom province that a Vietnamese company is clearing and destroying Cambodia's forests in Krayea commune ostensibly for the purpose of planting acacia trees.

Reports from Kratie and Mondolkiri provinces also said that Vietnamese companies are clearing forests to get lands for planting Para rubber trees, thus negatively affecting the livelihood of Cambodians living in these regions. The granting of concession lands to the investor Vietnamese companies does not benefit Cambodians at all because the Vietnamese companies are employing only Vietnamese laborers and do not want any Cambodian workers in their projects. This has caused great misery to the Cambodian people because the forests, the source of their daily incomes, are being destroyed and they are not getting any employment.

Chan Sarun, minister of Agriculture, forestry, wildlife, and fisheries, recently expressed great delight at a ceremony handing over some concession lands in Kratie province to a Vietnamese company to invest in Para rubber plantation. The minister was gleeful but the Cambodian people in that region were sad because tens of thousands of hectares of Cambodian forests would be logged and cleared by the Vietnamese company to get lands for the so-called investment.

It is obvious that Cambodia's very invaluable forests are fated to disappear at the hands of the Vietnamese companies. This is most regrettable.

The people in Kratie and Mondolkiri provinces were stunned when they learned that the Agriculture Ministry and Royal Government blindly allowed the Vietnamese companies to log and clear tens of thousands of hectares of Cambodian forests to get lands for planting Para rubber in the name of investment. This is because if one compares the investment capital to the values of the Cambodian forests one will see that Cambodia is losing terribly while the Vietnamese companies are profiting beyond imagination from their ventures in Cambodia. This does not mean that Cambodians are opposed to the development policy of the RGC. However, it is only normal that the Agriculture Ministry and Royal Government should reconsider any unprofitable development policy.

The people in Kratie and Mondolkiri provinces said that under the term "concession forests" the forests in these two provinces did not disappear because the concession companies harvested only big trees for timber and did not touch the young saplings; but under the term "concession lands" all the forests are completely destroyed because the concession companies need to clear them for lands on which to plant their investment crops. That is why it can be said that in cutting trees and clearing the forests for lands, the Vietnamese companies are willfully destroying Cambodia's forests. This means that under the term "concession lands" the Vietnamese companies have the right to destroy Cambodia's natural resources as much as they like, while the Cambodian leaders are worrying only about their power and their personal interests.

Most NGO officials criticize the concessions of tens of thousands of hectares of forested lands offered by the Agriculture Ministry and Royal Government to the Vietnamese companies for them to invest in Para rubber and other industrial crops. They say that this is not for the development of the country and not for the genuine prosperity of the nation. On the contrary, this is an exercise in cheaply selling off lands to the Vietnamese companies so that these Vietnamese companies come in to destroy Cambodia's invaluable natural resources with total arrogance. Moreover, the Cambodian Government seems to have some secrets in permitting the Vietnamese companies to come in and destroy the country's forests.

Various circles said that each year the Cambodian Government receives hundreds of millions of dollars in international aid for national building. Therefore, the Cambodian Government is not so poor that it needs to shamelessly sell lands to the Vietnamese companies at a very cheap price like this. Is the permission to allow the Vietnamese companies to log, clear, and destroy Cambodia's invaluable forests in Santuk district of Kompong Thom province to get lands for planting acacia part of national development efforts? This is a question for which the head of the Government must give the people a clear explanation.

In the past, when the people cut a few trees and clear a small piece of forested land so they could farm and make a living, Mok Mareth's Ministry of Environment would jump in to suppress them savagely, calling them destructors of the country's natural environment. However, when the Agriculture Ministry and Royal Government gave free hand to the Vietnamese companies to log and clear tens of thousands of hectares of forests, the Ministry of Environment has remained conspicuously silent. The Ministry of Environment probably holds that the activities of the Vietnamese companies are acts that help to preserve Cambodia's natural environment. This ministry must be thinking this way or it would not have turned a blind eye to all this forest devastation campaign.

The Cambodian people throughout the country understand that granting concession lands to the Vietnamese companies for investment does not benefit Cambodia in the least. On the contrary, this policy has brought Cambodia's invaluable forests to the brink of total destruction. Therefore, it is about time for the members of the Cambodian National Assembly to pay a little attention to this matter. Please take a look into it. Do not allow the Agriculture Ministry and Royal Government a free reign to do whatever they want, or Cambodia's forests will be a thing of the past at the hands of the Vietnamese companies.

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

Instead of telling Khmer people the truth that Hun Sen and Yuan Hanoi joined the conspiracy to swallow the land of Cambodia, the employer (Yuan government) and the employee (Hun Sen/CPP) said that Khmer land is for Yuan companies to do the investments. LIAR.

Helllo Khmer Folks, Yuan is now taking Khmer land giving by Hun Sen (via illegal treaty).

Anonymous said...

It is just another sad tragedy for our homeland again....

Anonymous said...

This absolute world of classic Yuan Hanoi & Hun Sen joined conspiracy is now Yuan taking Khmer land. Wonder why the opposition party SRP, King Sihanouk and others are staying mum? King Sihanouk used to curse Yuan calling Yuan as Crocodile, etc.. but Sihanouk now changes claiming w/o Yuan he and his whole family would have been dead. NICE TRY Your Khmer Rouge King, the King of Yuan.

While Yuan is now taking Khmer land through the traitors Hun Sen et al. King Sihanouk now keeps writing about his experiences to exert pressure on Cambodian people through his story.

This Khmer Rouge King, King Sihanouk said he was a nationalist he helped Yuan. Is Sihanouk Yuan? Is Hun Sen Yuan?


How could the million souls find justice if all the powerful people are Yuan and also were former Khmer Rouge?

The Yuan have been presence in Cambodia for a long time including in Pol Pot regime. Did Khmer people know Pol Pot before? NO. Until Yuan invaded Cambodia then the name Pol Pot came out from Yuan very own mouth.

Yuan Conspiracy: created the genocide in Cambodia killing million Khmers using the least educated and the most brutal to kill Khmers. Pol Pot was created and was framed by Yuan.
...
Why now all the Opposition parties stay silent???

GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN CAMBODIA?

Anonymous said...

the 2nd invasion of yourns into Cambodia. But his time they use ink instead of ak47.

Anonymous said...

I'm getting tired about this bullshit on KI Media.

The Yuons did this, the Thai have done that...

But the Chinese are buying all the land and all the oil of Cambodia in 2007 !

You don't have to believe me - I think most of the regular posters on this website are too old or just too stupid to believe me - just remember the name CNOOC...

Anyway, as a stupid "barang", I've a - maybe stupid - question:

A lot of people in Cambodia tell me that the Vietnamese "liberated" their country from the murders under the KR Regime.

Other people tell me that Vietnam "occupied" Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge.

Can someone tell me the difference between "liberated" and "occupied" ?

With other words, were (most of) the Cambodian people happy with the Vietnamse liberation, or not

Anonymous said...

STFU, you racist.

Why is it that everything
Vietnamese do is wrong and your
blue-eyed Goddess (Westerners)
do is right. If you like Westerners
so much, why don't you get the
hell out of Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Hi 3:23AM. and 6:04 AM.

Not all posters in here are too old or old, but some are youg and very young. The age has nothing to do with the mind of a person who is capable of wisdom and/or reason.
I have learned and have witnessed about all the troubles Cambodia has been through and recently the Yuan taking Khmer land, I believe there may be Yuan Conspiracy -created the genocide in Cambodia.
With no records to prove since all of the records were destroyed during KR regime, the Yuan too can create their own Cambodian, so who to say they are not. Of course some told you Yuan liberated and some told you Yuan invaded Cambodia. After all it was Yuan who created Khmer Rouge.
Look like Yuan people are so happy to take Khmer land, that's why 6:04am is too arrogant and being racist himself.

Anonymous said...

The only good Youn is a dead Youn!!

I have many family members died during the Khmer Rouge and the Vietcong claimed to liberate Cambodia from genocide!ahahahahha

-Unlce HO Chi Minh created Indochina Communist Party in 1920!

-Uncle HO Chi Minh create his Ho Chi Minh's trail in Cambodia so that American can carpet bombing Cambodia back to the Stone Age!

-Unlce Ho Chi Minh Vietcong army invaded Cambodia in 1979 and installed AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave government until now and Cambodia is still going nowhere!

-I want to say more but I am not going to...I am just sicken tired of all the Vietcong in the world!!!
These Vietcong need to get the fuck out of Cambodia and honor the freedom of all Khmer including the Khmer Krom!!!If Cambodian people become more radical or extremist to fight against the Vietcong oppression then Vietcong have nobody to blame except themselves!

Anonymous said...

Well, if you don't like Yuon to
liberate Cambodia from the Khmer
Rouge, why didn't you and your
blue-yed Goddess do something about it?

Oh wait, lemmeguess, you traitors
enjoy watching your buddy (Pot Pot)
extermating the khmer people so
that you can refilled them with
your blue-eyed worshiper people.
Isn't that right?

Well, don't hold your breath
because It ain't going to happen.

Anonymous said...

To 7:10 AM

Tell me who invited the Vietcong to liberate Cambodia from the Khmer Rouge! Isn't the Khmer Rouge like AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave invited the Vietcong?! ahahahahaha It is only a matter of time that the Khmer Rouge will collapse on its own weight! If the fucken Khmer Rouge killed each other and how the fuck are they going to last??

Let talk about you! If the damn Vietcong government are so damn good in saving people life and why the fuck you don't live in Vietname?

For your information, the Vietcong government ain't interested in saving anybody life and how do I know??? Well, Just look at the Montagard people and they are running away from the Vietcong government persecution every fucken day and what do you have to say about that???

Why do you have to talk when you yourself is just a fucken hypocrite like the rest of the Vietcong!!!!You are better off living in Vietname!!!

Do you hear me?!

Anonymous said...

Who invited Yuon over? Me and
millions of khmers who had been
suffering from the hand of your
father(Pol Pot). Does that answer
your question?

As for you stupid idea to wait
until no one is left alive in
cambodia for the Khmer Rouge to
fall, I say, "Suck my arse, idiot."

Anonymous said...

Here are my analysis I brieftly wrote yesterday:

[[[me28 said...
I have been silent on this issue since I saw all of these pictures and remarks made by this KR, Nuon Chea.

There're too many things the whole WORLD don't know about and we may never know like we will never know who killed Kennedy.

I was so young when Pol Pot died, and I kept asking myself why did KR kill its own people?

The name of Pol Pot became very famous around the world begining from Yuan Invasion. The name of Pol Pot was coming from the Yuan own mouth, but no Khmer knew about who was Pol Pot before.

Yuan using Hun Sen to kill Khmers to get the land, why cannot Yuan use Khmers to kill Khmers during KR regime? As a matter of fact Yuan have been presence in Cambodia for a long time and Yuan have never left Cambodia (read Bindra's letter). A few POWs witnessed about Yuan - and Yuan created their own Cambodian after all the records were destroyed, eg.,Hok Langdy (Nguyen Van Son).

Do I believe Khmers killed Khmers? Yes I do.

Do I believe in Yuan Conspiracy? Yes I do.

Do I believe in KR (China) vs. KR (Yuan)? Yes I do. China wants to rule the world economy but Yuan wants Khmer land.


With all the problems have been happening in Cambodia until today, I do believe Yuan created the genocide in Cambodia.

Salot Sar (Pol Pot) & Sihanouk (KR China) betrayed Yuan sought help from China which led to KR killed KR.
The fight started between the two factions (KR china vs. KR Yuan). With Yuan's new stratagem luring Salot Sar and his troops crossing into Vietnam, there they go, Yuan vowed to retaliate, claiming: sovereignity violation of Yuan, then Yuan Invasion started.

Salot Sar (Pol Pot) was tricked and lost the battle, run for his life, Sihanouk was very slick & brillaint, he then became the victim of Pol Pot claiming he and his family members were under a house arrest. Sihanouk then got away from betraying Yuan. Yuan knew but Yuan kept Sihanouk for the next meal. Remembered Sihanouk sent a letter to Pham Van Dung asking Dung to withdraw the troops from Cambodia, then the letter returned without opened? It showed that Yuan mocked at Sihanouk.

Yuan then installed its favorite puppet, the least educated and the most brutal Hun Sen into power with a full protection -after an educated Khmer like Pen Sovan betrayed Yuan. At the same time King Sihanouk mocked at Pol Pot and refused to die like him. While Sihanouk was busy going to China, North Korea crying for help, Yuan then ceded some piece of Land to China and promised to be a faithful servant, there Sihanouk stayed silent and now Yuan is taking Khmer land saying for the investments mocking Sihanouk for fun. To shield his embarassment Sihanouk is now writing a story defending yuan saying without Yuan he and his family would have been dead.

Aight what a classic play.

The game is not going to stop, because Hun Sen will always be protected by Yuan until he dies.

The Yuan Conspiracy that led to kill million of Khmer people will never find justice until the Kingdom comes. Some of the killers like Salot Sar (Pol Pot) and Ta Mok
already dead, but many killers like Hun Sen, Chea Sim, Heng Samrin,...and their master Yuan, will never be put to trial.
Ad Nauseam

4:26 AM ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]

Anonymous said...

Wrong, wrong, wrong, Vietnam is
doing much better economically
then Cambodia, and it will be
stupid for them to want a demotion
themself and come to live in
Cambodia.

You got the wrong planet, Psycho.

It is the Khmer Kroms Leftwingers
who masterminded the atrocity of
Khmer people and frame Vietnamese
for it. Moreover, they are still
doing it; however, I can assure you
that their days are numbered. You
got that, Psycho?

Anonymous said...

Hi 12:42 Am. The TRUE Hurts.
You are scared to know the truth.
Now you threat to kill people online. Be extra careful, you may get what you asked for.

Remember "Nothing is Permanent". You hurt or harm others you will someday receive it.

Yuan Created Khmer Rouge, and that's the facts. Now Yuan framing those Khmer Krom people. Yuan are trying to exterminate the owner of the land then Yuan thieves putting the blame on others. Yuan will someday be extermianted by China for the SINS Yuan committed.

Anonymous said...

Noope, I don't threat anyone. I
am just sending a message to KK
leftwingers like you to get stay
away from our holly soil or you
will end up eating 2 meals of rat's
meat a day in PreySor. Get it,
Psyc?

Anonymous said...

Neak Yuan 2:24 AM,
You are threatening again.
In that case I encourage the KK to fight and free their homeland.
This to Muslim "Cham" to look for way to free Champa from the Yuan thieves. Keep fighting until the kingdom comes. You are not going to win today but the nest generation..generation.

Free yourself from Yuan Hanoi.

Anonymous said...

Damned, not only that you are a
Psycho, but also a paranoa.
Everything is a threat. What is
a pathetic fool?

And good, get the hell out of
Cambodia to fight for your lost
land and don't come back, Alright?

Anonymous said...

Ong Yuan 3:46 AM. You can't get rid of anyone because you can't get rid of your own evilness.
A paranoia Yuan like you won't stop your delusion when you keep screaming seeing everyone is KK. You must be too scared.
Eh Neak Yuan thief, go to hell.

Anonymous said...

What are you, my echo or something?
Don't you have your own words,
Psyc.?

As for Hell, I will go there, but
you and your kk leftwingers are
comming along, you got that?

Anonymous said...

Hi Ong Yuan,
What do you think when the people of South and middle of Vietnam rise and free themselves from Yuan Hanoi? I know the muslims will get help from Bin and the South will claim its own state.
About Hell, Ho Chi Mienh and Pham Van DUNG can tell you how it likes.

Anonymous said...

I had told the world before! The only good Vietcong is a dead Vietcong! The only good YOUN is a dead YOUN!!!

Every fucken time I think about the Vietcong and all the YOUN and it make me all fire up! I had lost so many family members during the Khmer Rouge and I pray that God or something would come down and save my family but none did!

Cambodia is going through hell, hell, and more hell!!!

As far as I am concerned, it is the Vietcong that create all these fucken shit and make Cambodian people suffer endlessly and needlessly!!!!

The Vietcong can lie to the whole world but they can lie to the Cambodian people!!!!The Vietcong can label the Khmer as right wing or left wing! or label the Khmer Krom left wing or right wing!! It doesn't really matter now!!!! The time will come and all the bad things that the Vietcong had done on the Khmer people will come back and haunt them!!!!

Never let the Vietcong have a peace of mind and make they live in fear for eternity!!!!!!

Right now the Vietcong government is support AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave to the end and to the end AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave will die!!!

Anonymous said...

WTF? you lost so many family
members? But you family don't
count. They deserved what was
coming to them because you and
your family trying to screw the
neignbors. On the other hand,
many of us in the rural didn't
do nothing and we got the shaft
from your stupidity anyway.

And now, you want to go for
round 2?

Let me tell you something, Psycho:
It will never gonna happened again.
You got the picture?

Anonymous said...

Not too long Cambnodia will be rubal to the ground. Firt Camobodian current gov/t don't care about the country. We can name it from curruption, land grabbing,lawlessness, and a long list more. Second, Vietcong see these weaknesses and they will incourage more of these activities thru Hun Sen gov't. And by the time Camnbodian officials realizes, it is too little and to late stop Vietman domination. And that is a final destination for Khmer future.

Anonymous said...

Well if Cambodia will be rubal to
the ground soon, wouldn't it be
a good idea for you and your
stupid family and relatives to
get out of there before it happen,
Fool?

Anonymous said...

To 5:55AM

Fuck you motherfucker! You are one stupid motherfucker!!!The only crime that my family has because the Khmer Rouge or Khmer Vietcong classification of Cambodian people! My family belong to the business and educated people who doesn't live on farm and very fair skin people and for that the Khmer Rouge or the Khmer Vietcong took away all the fucken privilege from them and when they sick or starve they can't even get help!!! Sure those poor Cambodia farmer have more privilege!

You are just another dark skin stupid Cambodian bastard! In this highly democratic and mobile society and you can't compet with me!

I will tell who are the dark skin communist bastard that put all Cambodian people through hell!!!

-AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave is a stupid dark skin communist bastard!

-AH HENG SAMKIS Vietcong slave is a stupid dark skin communist bastard!

-AH CHEA SIM Vietcong slave is a stupid dark skin communist bastard!

-AH TEP VONG Vietcong slave is a stupid dark skin communist bastard!

Now you too! God bless you!!ahahah

Anonymous said...

Noope, your family was killed
because they are immoral and
traitor to the khmer people.

They brought in the US out of
the bleu to threat all the
neighbors, not to mention immorally
stabed an innocent man (somdach
euv)in the back. If that is
not criminal, I don't what is?

Anonymous said...

To 2:21PM

How do you explain when the Khmer Rouge, Khmer Vietminh, or Khmer Vietcong killed the students, teachers,doctors, engineers,...even people for wearing glasses? Are these Cambodian people criminal too? ahah
You stupid fuck and get the hell out my face!!

Anonymous said...

Hey, those people would had not
been killed have you not teaching
about "Stabing people in the back is good" or "betray you family,
patners, or close friends is a way
of life." idiologies.

I would have killed them too.
Who the hell would want to live
with evil?