Original report from Phnom Penh
04 June 2008
Four fishermen in Kampong Thom province have been held for three days, following accusations they destroyed the river nets of two fishing concessionaires.
The four men had been a part of a group of 12 who on Sunday removed fishing nets from a river in Kampong Kor commune to allow fish to move to a pond, officials said.
The nets belonged to two businessmen who had paid for the rights to fish the river in that area, officials said.
Provincial prosecutor Ty Sovathal said the men cut the nets of the concessionaires and robbed some of the netting.
Sien Hong Da, 40, Ny Nang, 40, Suong Son, 30, and Yeur Yon, 28, were all arrested Monday and are still being held in the provincial jail, officials said. Fellow villagers say the men do not deserve to be held.
"We think that is unfair," said Kampong Kor resident Prum Than. "We are hurt that they are detained on such a falsity."
In Kongchit, an investigator for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the fishermen had agreed to pay 3 million riel in compensation to the concessionaires.
The four men had been a part of a group of 12 who on Sunday removed fishing nets from a river in Kampong Kor commune to allow fish to move to a pond, officials said.
The nets belonged to two businessmen who had paid for the rights to fish the river in that area, officials said.
Provincial prosecutor Ty Sovathal said the men cut the nets of the concessionaires and robbed some of the netting.
Sien Hong Da, 40, Ny Nang, 40, Suong Son, 30, and Yeur Yon, 28, were all arrested Monday and are still being held in the provincial jail, officials said. Fellow villagers say the men do not deserve to be held.
"We think that is unfair," said Kampong Kor resident Prum Than. "We are hurt that they are detained on such a falsity."
In Kongchit, an investigator for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the fishermen had agreed to pay 3 million riel in compensation to the concessionaires.
7 comments:
What's concessonaires???
Are those assissted to destroy our environment???
Any plan to take out from our environment, it has to be plan to put back to environment and cambodians.
Otherwise those acts become robbery of our land and the people.
Neang SA
3:33am THE CONCESSONAIRE IS THE PEOPLE WHO RENT OR BUYING RIGHT TO FISH IN DESIGNATED AREA OF THE WATER!
THE FUCKING GOVERMENT SHOULD NOT LEASE YHE WHOLE SECTION OF ANY MAIN RIVER PRIVATE! POOR KHMERE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE SOME RIGHT FOR THEIR LAND, FOREST, AND WATER.
CAMBODIA IS NOT BELONG TO FUCKING CPP OR ANY ONE BUT ALL KHMERE!
Rule of law must applied to the fullest here. Cambodia is not Zimbabwe.
HUN SEN WIFE LOVER 4:54 AM
Shhhhhhh.... you going to get me kill, bro. Is it my fault that I find her irresistible?
Bullshit this is called property destruction! I called this is a competition!
Cambodia definitely needs a heavy dose of competition to move forward!
True, but we don't need troublemakers who can only blame and accusing people for his own failure. There is nothing good in that.
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