Original report from Phnom Penh
10 April 2008
A national election official was arrested and questioned by the court Thursday in a continuing land dispute in the coastal town of Sihanoukville, officials said Thursday.
Saum Solida, an adviser to the secretary-general of the National Election Committee, was arrested with his wife and a land broker Wednesday.
They were brought to Sihanoukville Municipal Court Thursday for questioning and are being detained at military police headquarters, human rights officials said.
They are accused of land theft from Evergreen, a development company, officials said.
Evergreen has received a letter from the national government to develop 54 hectares of coastal beach, but Saum Solida had purchased a parcel of the land from four private residents, said Pot Samon, an investigator for the rights group Licadho.
Sihanoukville has become a hotbed of tourism development. The boom has brought with it a rash of land conflicts, some of them violent.
Saum Solida, an adviser to the secretary-general of the National Election Committee, was arrested with his wife and a land broker Wednesday.
They were brought to Sihanoukville Municipal Court Thursday for questioning and are being detained at military police headquarters, human rights officials said.
They are accused of land theft from Evergreen, a development company, officials said.
Evergreen has received a letter from the national government to develop 54 hectares of coastal beach, but Saum Solida had purchased a parcel of the land from four private residents, said Pot Samon, an investigator for the rights group Licadho.
Sihanoukville has become a hotbed of tourism development. The boom has brought with it a rash of land conflicts, some of them violent.
10 comments:
That the problem of living under the Rule of Man rather than the Rule of Law. You live in fear that someone else could has access to higher government officials than you. In this case someone did.
Well, rule of Man is a lot better than rule of law anytime when the man is morally educated.
3:29,
Give me examples where it is better?
3:29 AM your mother will curse you for your stupidity1! What the f.... is morally educated?
What is education even you leave moral alone!
You must have PHD from Hanoi like hun xen!
What is Land theft?
They may be trespassing!
Scame on land sale!
Sale faked duccument!
But what is land theft?
You're not morally educated when you come up with cussing words most the time. And you will get angry and cuss
me too when I say thing incontrast to your thought, right?
I allow it when cussing as a response to those Viet trollers/Intruders/pimps and parasites here on KI-Media!!!
Well, the flawy KR tribunal is a good example where rule of man can give people better justice that they deserve, 3:29.
But too bad, that you insist on stupid rule of law.
it shouldn't be us and them. if gov't official act in appropriately, they (regardless of political affiliation or status) ought to be reprimanded and educated if they don't already aware of the law or what have you.
Onlu cursing is work with stupid CPP!
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