The News (Pakistan)
PHNOM PENH: Authorities in Cambodia have evicted around 76 families and destroyed their homes in the country's northwest, a rights group said Saturday.
The villagers were forced to move when their homes in Oddar Meanchey province were bulldozed and set on fire Friday, local human rights group Licadho said.
Police, however, said they were only removing the temporary shelters of people illegally settling on a plantation belonging to a sugar company.
"All those families are now staying in a pagoda, but they refused to accept the offers of land exchange by the company," said Srey Naren from Licadho.
The Cambodian government has faced criticism for forced evictions carried out by the army and police throughout the country, which have increased as land prices have risen over the past few years.
Last year over 20,000 people were reported affected by forced evictions from their homes in the Southeast Asian country, according to rights group Amnesty International.
The villagers were forced to move when their homes in Oddar Meanchey province were bulldozed and set on fire Friday, local human rights group Licadho said.
Police, however, said they were only removing the temporary shelters of people illegally settling on a plantation belonging to a sugar company.
"All those families are now staying in a pagoda, but they refused to accept the offers of land exchange by the company," said Srey Naren from Licadho.
The Cambodian government has faced criticism for forced evictions carried out by the army and police throughout the country, which have increased as land prices have risen over the past few years.
Last year over 20,000 people were reported affected by forced evictions from their homes in the Southeast Asian country, according to rights group Amnesty International.
12 comments:
This is my comment in response to 5:24PM in a previous article:
5:24PM,
Hun Sen is not a strong man as you claim. How can a man be strong if he has 4,000 bodyguards to protect him? And in addition there are thousands of armed Yuons mixing with his guards. What are they for? Hun Sen without Yuons and his own guards is a dandruffed dumb and scary dog.
KHmer people know that they cannot get anything good from this government but maltreament and oppression. A ruler with no compassion, sympathy, and kindness will never make his people happy.
"In Buddhism, we are taught not only to love, but our love need to arise from a mind of serenity, purity, and equality. We call this kind of love compassion. Compassion is rational love. We also need to use true wisdom. Wisdom is the true mind and emotion is the illusory mind. Love that arises from emotions will change while love arises from wisdom will never change." Does your Hun Sen possess the slightest bit of these qualities? Perhaps none. In contrast, he possesses tons of hatred, revenge, arrogance, ignorance, and cockiness which forms as a big mold of immorality inside him.
Ah roleuy Hun sen your day will come. you lower than ah pouk siam. lighting will strike you soon.
Collecting People Property again...
The evictees should go around and set fire to those high official that cause these suffering upon them. The currupted their stuff cause more, more to looses!
To Mr. Chea Sim and Mr. Heng Samrin, and to whom of Khmer Official that follows KI, is this the work legacy you want to be known by Khmer people as having done under your watched?
You are old and will die soon, leave a legacy better for the people to remember you by.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Executions
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
If this government under hanoi can't protect the people. People have to protect themself. If the currupted offical burn down the poor's home. The poor should burn down those responsible in return.
Cause the government are doing anything to serve the people.
Government (gov't) needs to build multiple flats, each flat may contain e.g. up to 3 levels/ground floor for garage purposes and then level 2=4*4bedrooms per unit and so as level 3 or town houses which is much more modern nowadays. Total of families who may live in a flat or the town houses would be 8. In Aust, properties that belongs to gov't and rent it out to poor people, we called it "gov't housing or housing commission". In doing so, is to avoid having or seeing homelessness along the street or parking lots etc. Plus it is the image of the country, the quality of life as well as equality with both rich and poor can have a home to live in. In addition, it is part of a gov't revenue as well, e.g. gov't can collect these renting monies and use it for other purposes such as of community building development. So, it is very good if gov’t can provide these supports to meet people’s need. Let say each suburb there will 10 flats (8families*10flats=80 families out of the slum), by doing this, it will help to reduce the image of poverty in our society as a whole. On the other hand, when gov’t gives peace to people, it will be likewise, peace will come to the gov’t. Aust
This my comment in response to dumb Aust in previous article:
No Khmers want to be the enemy of his/her country, where they were born, you bonehead 11:57AM, but decent Khmers overseas, excluding you, won't allow a dictator to suppress Khmers living inside of the country any further. Hus Sen is the enemy of Khmer people, because, from the start, he didn't get his power by Khmer people's votes, but by being installed in power by Yuons in the exchange of a big concession he made to Yuon, the concession that benefits only Hun Sen, his families, and his cronies, but hurts and harms Khmer people for many generations to come.
what all khmer are waiting for. overthrow that goverment. destroy them before all khmer are vanished from cambodia.
8:30PM yes you are right no khmer want to be the enemy of his/her country, but you were generalising us by say "Khmer overseas don't appoved of Hun sen gov't" which is not true, all I'm saying is we khmer overseas are not bias. So, I believe you must be the mole from other race who like to stir you people lives. Becareful or bad "karma" will come your way", No gov't is perfect but you have to know how to say things. Don't use such a language to affect other people like that! Stop using "We Khmer overseas". So, get out of this site if you are a mole.
8:30PM you are the "Mole" get out!
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