Man shot three times by government cops guarding the private Thai Bun Rong company land will receive $750 in compensation. One has to wonder if he would receive anything should there be no upcoming election (Photo: Ta Som, Koh Santepheap)Land conflict turned violent: Hun Sen apologizes
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
By Leang Delux
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
Prime minister Hun Sen made a surprise visit to Sihanoukville on Monday 24 march. He arrived by helicopter in the afternoon, after a violent land conflict took place earlier.
On 20 March, in Commune No. 3 of Sihanoukville, a man, who was participating in a protest movement, was shot three times by a cop. The villagers were demonstrating against the construction of a fence by the Thai Bun Rong Company which is also the owner of the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh. According to the villagers, the fence trespasses on their lands. Tension rose and led to the shooting. Four other demonstrators were arrested and the injured man was transported to Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh.
Hun Sen visited the area personally to “clearly find out about the events.” In front of the villagers gathered on the disputed land, Hun Sen “apologized to the villagers for providing bad advise to his personnel.” He directly blamed the local authorities “which prevented the villagers from protesting while authorizing the company to built its fence.” He ordered the release of the 4 demonstrators and compensated them with $300 each. The man who was shot will receive $750 in compensation.
Another gesture by Hun Sen: out of the 92-hectare of lands rented by the state by the company, Hun Sen decided to provide 16-hectare to the villagers: 14-hectare for building the village and the remaining 2-hectare for building infrastructures needed by the villagers.
On 20 March, in Commune No. 3 of Sihanoukville, a man, who was participating in a protest movement, was shot three times by a cop. The villagers were demonstrating against the construction of a fence by the Thai Bun Rong Company which is also the owner of the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh. According to the villagers, the fence trespasses on their lands. Tension rose and led to the shooting. Four other demonstrators were arrested and the injured man was transported to Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh.
Hun Sen visited the area personally to “clearly find out about the events.” In front of the villagers gathered on the disputed land, Hun Sen “apologized to the villagers for providing bad advise to his personnel.” He directly blamed the local authorities “which prevented the villagers from protesting while authorizing the company to built its fence.” He ordered the release of the 4 demonstrators and compensated them with $300 each. The man who was shot will receive $750 in compensation.
Another gesture by Hun Sen: out of the 92-hectare of lands rented by the state by the company, Hun Sen decided to provide 16-hectare to the villagers: 14-hectare for building the village and the remaining 2-hectare for building infrastructures needed by the villagers.
25 comments:
Ah Chhkai Hun Xen!!!Ah Chhleuy!!!That is for general election 27.07.2008!!After election you will do what you want!!!!You are the Tmill the same Ah Pol Pot!!but we know already about you ,Ah Kvang!!!You will die on 27.07.2008!!!We are khmers will be very happy when you die!!!
Yes, KI Media. He has made your SRP more irrelevant.
Kuoy Pichet
After being called "implacable" leader voluminous times since the PM elevated to the leader of Cambodia, my belief is that it's plausible to applaud the PM for his generous effort in stepping in to the plate to placate the situation, and therefore my hat is tipping to his , again, generous effort.
Good day!
Yeah, it's election time. The same old things. but many people will never forget, Sambok Chap, Dey Kroham, Borei Keila, tonle Bassac and many more violence in sihanoukville land disputes. Too many people have been evicted from their lands. They will never forget.
It's full of shit. It's another vote buying. Innocent Khmers, please take the money & vote Ah Khvak out.
Wow, what a good gesture from HUN SEN? Or just another trick to win the hearts and minds from the villagers. Exactly, this is election. HUN SEN, it is time you need to care your people. They need not treat this way. They have been victim of war for soooo many decades. They need to live in peace and harmony. They need you to protect them not to chase, shoot or evict them.
Oh darn, mee jkouk (Socheata) must be on crack again for thinking the man was getting $750 in compensation only because of election time. That is just not true. The man could have got a lot more but they don't want the SRP to bark "Vote Buying" which is why PM had to restrict it to $750.
STOP in the speculation on the price of the rice.
The rice is mainly produced in Asia and not in Europe or in the United States.
Dollars is a currency which dépreciates itself in the world.
The main part of the producing countries of rice in Asia are not at war and there are no natural disasters in Asia which make the harvests of rices fall in these countries.
The only possible explanation of the increase of the price of rice is the speculation.
The stock-market speculators try to get back on the rice that they lost in stock exchange iin thailande and in Vietnam.
To stop the speculation, the government can forbid the storage not authorized by rice, control the exports and the imports of rice.
The government can oblige importers, wholesalers and salesmen retailers of rice to justify their cost price, their selling price and their margin on the business of rice.
And the severe penalties will be taken by the government in case of abuse of the speculators.
They should have pay the victim big compensation. This incident is more than just $750.
Indeed, the margin = selling price - cost price.
The margin which has to take into account the inflation has to allow the salesmen, the importers to live, but has to remain the same from one year to the next without important change in terms of percentage.
Any increase of the percentage of the margin without serious jusfification (increase of the cost price, the import) means speculation!
When there is really rise in prices of the rice in the import because the national market does not produce enough rices, the government has to substitute itself for privates importers to import and sell himself even through its national companies the rice to an affordable price to population with the modest wages.
The increase of the cost of living can have a negative effect on the election result in 2008 for the pover in place.
The government must absolutely prevent the private companies to take the check of the strategic market of the rice (importers, exporting, the wholesalers) regarding fixing price of the rice.
$7500 for the wounded man, $3000 for jailed people. Justice in Cambodia is not that cheap. Ask him how Hun Sen feels if he got shot like that and receive only $750?
Local Khmer
I think recent govenment is incapable of leading the country. Economy, health care, legal issues, and alot more are failing. I personally grade F- and ask the PM to resign.
Phnom Penh Teacher
I think Hun Sen will be out of his office soon due to his poor leadership. It doestn't mean CPP voters can't vote him out. I am CPP voter but I want somebody else to run for PM not this incapable person named: Hun Sen.
CPP Voter
Yes, we have heard of that before. Now, if you don't mind, just get back into your Vietcong's pit shit because you are stinking the whole place here.
Where is the court in cambdia,
Is Hun Sen is a jude or The Prime minister? One man ran the show in cam-pou Chea. Sama same put thor.
Khmer Santa Ana
if people realized they made mistake and hurt others, it is better to apologize than to be arrogant about it. i think this is the right approach.
Where is the law, LAW,LAW?
People need law to live by not by the feeling of ah kwack!
Shoot and pay ?
UN, can you see what is happening in here, please help us reformed the gandter force and the monkey court!as said in PARIS AGREEMENT!
Seeing this Hun Sen has to apologize MP Ho Vann, compensate him and punish his crony who injured Ho Vann in his leg.
Hun Sen is PM, he should not bias and acting only in his favoritism to do vote-buying
Ah Kwack is what all you know from Hanoi 's PHD?
That the way your fucking master teach you?
Ah Youn Vietname did this trick to us already! burned our country and than come as a rescuer then put you stinky heads CPP in power to oppress and destroy Cambodia!
Do mai mey ah saker!
12:43, what law are you looking for?
This is not a criminal case where the soldier shoot the protester and take all his moneys.
On the contrary, here the soldier was just doing his job guarding the property. He didn't know that the fence was trespassing on to the villager property. It is all an accident. Thus, this is a civil case where the victim is compensated with cash. Get it?
Get Borany pussy stupid!
I thought that was more than a fair monetary compensation for the victims.
In a way, yes, when you considered you get nothing in the west for false arrest. However, the guy who got shot might be a little undercompensated, but we are good people, we'll take care of it if need be. In any case, this is more like an out-of-court settlement, which I highly encourage people to do always, and try to avoid court at all cost because if you lose in court, you get nothing. Plus, you may have to absorb some of the others fees also.
This is a win-win solution in negotiating settlement and avert ligitation; also, it's quite plausibly acceptable.
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