Evicted from Battambang province marching towards Prime Minister Hun Sen house. (Photo: John Vink, http://johnvink.com)By Vong Dara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Battambang Province
01 June 2008
After resting half a day Saturday, Battambang villagers resumed their march to the capital, where they hope to have a land dispute resolved.
They moved another 20 kilometers Sunday, crossing into Pursat province, tired, but not as tired as the day before.
Sao Mony, a representative of the villagers of Bovel, said “generous people” on the road encouraged the marchers and helped by bringing food to the roadside.
Rights workers say a number of authorities have been seen working to ensure the safety of the villagers, around 200 of them, on their march.
The marchers say they have appealed to Battambang’s provincial governor, but have found only indifference, and so they are moving to Phnom Penh, where they hope officials can help them.
They’ve lost more than 100 hectares of land in sales in 1999 and 2005, the marchers say.
They moved another 20 kilometers Sunday, crossing into Pursat province, tired, but not as tired as the day before.
Sao Mony, a representative of the villagers of Bovel, said “generous people” on the road encouraged the marchers and helped by bringing food to the roadside.
Rights workers say a number of authorities have been seen working to ensure the safety of the villagers, around 200 of them, on their march.
The marchers say they have appealed to Battambang’s provincial governor, but have found only indifference, and so they are moving to Phnom Penh, where they hope officials can help them.
They’ve lost more than 100 hectares of land in sales in 1999 and 2005, the marchers say.
9 comments:
if they take your land by force ,you should it back by force.
Here is freedom matchers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give the people their lands back HUN SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HUN SEN doomdays is arrived in JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Look at the picture the fucking morrone built fance on its land and give no side walk to the public or beauty to the environement!
Fucking stupid monkey of hanoi!
keep demanding reforms, ladies and gentlemen. this is one way to get the gov't's attention towards the plight of suffering of ordinary cambodian people. god bless cambodia.
Ah Kvak will have his police disperse this crowd in a seconds notice. He will threaten these marcher with bodily harms if they don't get off his side walk. The facial expressions of these marchers says it all.
I said: go marcher! Fight for your life and your land!
Well, if they don't got land title, then they should not come to disturb the peace. No one on the planet will allowed that.
I HOPE KHMER PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CURRUPTION CAUSE BY THE CPP AFTER THIS ELECTION.
ALL KHMER HAD ENOUGH OF THIS B'S-S.O.B
4:09,
Who the fuck march 3 days to argue about a house that's not belongs to you? I know your mother is not one of the marcher..... is she? Ask yourself this: whose disturbing who?
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