PHNOM PENH, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Cambodian police fired teargas and eight people were injured on Saturday during the forced eviction of 80 families from a Phnom Penh slum, rights activists and police said. At least two of the eight slum dwellers were seriously hurt in clashes with clean-up crews hired to tear down the dwellings on government land recently sold to a private company. Police cordoned off roads around the area near the Russian embassy, as the 300 workers backed by bulldozers and cranes cleared away the decade-old community. Rights activist Am Sam Ath and witnesses said eight people were injured during the forced eviction, including two seriously hurt and sent to hospital.
Witnesses said an old woman and a boy were hit by a bulldozer, while others were hurt in clashes with the workers armed with clubs and stones. Police denied using excessive force to evict the group, who had waged a 3-year battle against their eviction.
"We did not use violence against them, but tear gas to disperse the people who resisted," Phnom Penh police chief G. Touch Naruth told Reuters.
The eviction came after the squatters rejected the company's offer of $20,000 per family in compensation for the prime 2-hectare (4.9 acres) plot of land facing the Mekong River.
Land disputes are a hot issue in Cambodia, where garment factories and hotels have sprung up to expand the major textile and tourist industries. Last week, police opened fire on farmers protesting against a land grab south of Phnom Penh, wounding two of them, rights activists said.
(Reporting by Ek Madra; Editing by Darren Schuettler and Alex Richardson)
Witnesses said an old woman and a boy were hit by a bulldozer, while others were hurt in clashes with the workers armed with clubs and stones. Police denied using excessive force to evict the group, who had waged a 3-year battle against their eviction.
"We did not use violence against them, but tear gas to disperse the people who resisted," Phnom Penh police chief G. Touch Naruth told Reuters.
The eviction came after the squatters rejected the company's offer of $20,000 per family in compensation for the prime 2-hectare (4.9 acres) plot of land facing the Mekong River.
Land disputes are a hot issue in Cambodia, where garment factories and hotels have sprung up to expand the major textile and tourist industries. Last week, police opened fire on farmers protesting against a land grab south of Phnom Penh, wounding two of them, rights activists said.
(Reporting by Ek Madra; Editing by Darren Schuettler and Alex Richardson)
9 comments:
This is the way YOUN TRY to take over our land .. with Ah SHIT HUN SEN support to detroy it own people country and land .. may lighning strike AH JKORB CHEAT HUN SEN IN THE MIDDLE OF DAY TIME ..
There! It's how Hun Sen has always treated his voters. Thay call it 'city development', because all sectors of business need to be gloriously prosperous under his rule.
We don't want any slum in our beautiful city. If anyone wants to live in a slum, they move to Long Beach.
11:44 PM what kind of home condition you are living now .. OK .. may a 2 million dollar villar right ? and you are relate or friend to AH JKEA Hun Sen too Right ?.. right .. ok since you don't want to have a slum city like you are saying (Which just fucking talk ) after 30year the city still like shit , and the fucking corrupted asshole like you become rich and richer by sell your country suck your own people blood drug trafficking , illegal logging..on and on..you have a fucking nice house and try to evict the only Khmer the real Khmer from their home and give it to fucking youn .. and the place that own by AH JKEA Youn you shit not event dear go near it ..
SLUM city my ass , you dogs just try to take excuse to hurt your own people and serve AH YOUN interest ..
12:21AM You get applauded and congratulations, you nailed this dog on it head.
Thanks you U are the best.
You can say whatever you want, Ah potato diggers, but you aint gonna screw up our future by keeping us in the slum.
HUN SEN WILL MAKE YOUR WIFE AND YOUR UNDERAGE DAUGHTER PUSSY IN SLUM ..4:08 PM
Yeah, you wish.
HE WILL , HUN SEN WILL FUCK YOUR WIFE AND DAUGHTER RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU , AND NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT , CUS YOU ARE HIS DOG , HE HE .. AH JKEA ..
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