Written by Cheang Sokha and Sebastian Strangio The Phnom Penh Post
Villagers living on disputed land near Bokor National Park violently evicted for the second time in six months, say human rights groups
HUNDREDS of families are homeless after their violent eviction from their village on the outskirts of Bokor National Park in Kampot province, according to local residents and rights groups.
Villagers from Anlong Krom, in Kampot's Taken commune, say hundreds of troops from RCAF's Brigade 31 arrived without warning Monday and Tuesday and set fire to 300 wooden homes belonging to the residents - the second eviction from the area this year.
In June 300 armed soldiers from Brigade 31 demolished the homes of 200 families, who fled to the nearby hamlet of Kbal Damrey.
Anlong Krom resident Hem Da said villagers gathered to protest Monday morning but were threatened with arrest by the soldiers.
"When villagers protested, [the soldiers] hurt them and threatened to arrest and imprison them," he said. Rights groups say six local villagers were injured - three seriously - as they protested the destruction of their property.
Hem Da added that no replacement housing has been provided to the affected residents. "They have not found a relocation site for us," he said. "We have nowhere to live."
The eviction came a day before four residents from a nearby village are scheduled to stand trial on charges of robbery and damaging private property in an earlier confrontation with Brigade 31 soldiers.
Nhek Chantha, 52, Vong Ma, 46, Moeu Sopheak, 19, and Noeu Kak-Kada, 18, were arrested in June for protesting the subdivision of land in Kbal Damrey village, needed to house the villagers evicted from Anlong Krom.
HUNDREDS of families are homeless after their violent eviction from their village on the outskirts of Bokor National Park in Kampot province, according to local residents and rights groups.
Villagers from Anlong Krom, in Kampot's Taken commune, say hundreds of troops from RCAF's Brigade 31 arrived without warning Monday and Tuesday and set fire to 300 wooden homes belonging to the residents - the second eviction from the area this year.
In June 300 armed soldiers from Brigade 31 demolished the homes of 200 families, who fled to the nearby hamlet of Kbal Damrey.
Anlong Krom resident Hem Da said villagers gathered to protest Monday morning but were threatened with arrest by the soldiers.
"When villagers protested, [the soldiers] hurt them and threatened to arrest and imprison them," he said. Rights groups say six local villagers were injured - three seriously - as they protested the destruction of their property.
Hem Da added that no replacement housing has been provided to the affected residents. "They have not found a relocation site for us," he said. "We have nowhere to live."
The eviction came a day before four residents from a nearby village are scheduled to stand trial on charges of robbery and damaging private property in an earlier confrontation with Brigade 31 soldiers.
Nhek Chantha, 52, Vong Ma, 46, Moeu Sopheak, 19, and Noeu Kak-Kada, 18, were arrested in June for protesting the subdivision of land in Kbal Damrey village, needed to house the villagers evicted from Anlong Krom.
7 comments:
To Ah Kh'vang Ma Khak,
You let over 6 millions Viet invaders to resettled freely throughout Cambodia, especially inside Tonle Sap.
Why you sent your troops to burn down khmer poor houses, but let all Viets floating houses, by the millions, being built in Tonle Sap ?
Ah Kone mi chor Kanh cheas Yuon, Ah kone mi chor roleay roup.Ah Rerng pouker ter chea muoy reas khmer day toter ponnos, trang ahy chor yuon chh'lean pean ah Rerng min hean kha'ok ter, Ah chh'ker yuon, Ah runteas banh kandal kh'bal.
Ah Erng noeung trov ngorb doch ah Hok Lubdi chea min khaan!!!
I take great pity on all victims in this tragic area as well as the other areas across the country.
I also take great pity on all the armed forces who commit all tragedy.
And I am wondering these armed forces have the guts to commit all these with no remorse?. Why they behave like animal killing their own KHmer families?
When will all these Khmer People can be as humble, moral, skilled, architectural, powerful, united as the Angkorian era?
When will Cambodia can live indendently from foreign and the puppet's affluence who always fools the Khmers?
It's risky to live in someone else property.
5:01PM, those armed guys feel pretty risky to live in your house; don't you know that, asshole?
Ah Savage Killer (Scam Rainxy) must be stopped from bring evil into Cambodia.
This is how savage HUN SEN armies are. They only be brave to poor innocent people.
Why don't HUN SEN send these bunch of brainless troops to the frontline at Preah vihear???
Khmer PP,
My sympathy for the innocent people who got evicted.
But some people are there to make money, land grab is a big business; for those who's been living there illegally they should get evicted.
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