By Taing Sarada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
20 June 2008
The Cambodian People Community joined together in mid-2007 in Cambodia with communities all over the country to set up a petition to solve the land disputes.
An Oddar Meanchey province villager who join the People Community campaign said that he wanted to meet Hun Sen directly to report the truth about land-grabbing.
"We have heard the words of samdech prime minister, who has repeatedly mentioned in order to warn those with power and companies that don’t respect the law and exploit the people’s land," Sok Heng said, using a Khmer honorific. "Samdech prime minister said asked that those powerful people and companies give the land back to the people.”
Sok Heng said they created this petition because many people, including land-grabbing victims, wanted to inform Hun Sen about land-grabbing from businessmen and powerful officials.
"We have heard many times, so we initiated the idea to produce this petition in order to send a message to samdech that his warning words don’t make those officials stop their action," he said. "They still continue and harm people even more."
An Oddar Meanchey province villager who join the People Community campaign said that he wanted to meet Hun Sen directly to report the truth about land-grabbing.
"We have heard the words of samdech prime minister, who has repeatedly mentioned in order to warn those with power and companies that don’t respect the law and exploit the people’s land," Sok Heng said, using a Khmer honorific. "Samdech prime minister said asked that those powerful people and companies give the land back to the people.”
Sok Heng said they created this petition because many people, including land-grabbing victims, wanted to inform Hun Sen about land-grabbing from businessmen and powerful officials.
"We have heard many times, so we initiated the idea to produce this petition in order to send a message to samdech that his warning words don’t make those officials stop their action," he said. "They still continue and harm people even more."
5 comments:
i think citing the relevant law is more effective than yelling and screaming. a good leader ought to know this already. as a rule, nobody can beat the law, especially when it comes to some kind of lawsuit or something as the laws will be used for that, otherwise, it is meaningless, just like the time of the KR era.
with all due respect, our students our workers, our national NGOs our parlementarians, our poor & destitute HAVE been "citing the law" since UNTAC laws were passed.. and to NO avail, mate!
If you don't have title to your land, you don't have land, period. Get a job and save up to buy your own. There is no free lunch here.
Please do your small part to help find justice for our voiceless people by click on the link and sign your name. Only if we have the courage to do so... that we will make a difference in ourlives and the lives of our fellow Cambodians.
Okay, but don't signed more than 100 times each. Otherwise, it will look suspicious.
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