Villagers armed with clubs and slingshots await the return of police after clashes over land in Kampong Speu province’s Oudong district on Thursday morning (Photo by: Sovan Philong, The Phnom Penh Post)By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
19 March 2010
A judge postponed a decision in a land case to prevent a repeat conflict between villagers and police, as protesters burned effigies in front of the provincial court Friday.
The court is hearing a dispute over 65 hectares of land in Kampong Speu province’s Oudong district, where villagers say a Taiwanese company is taking over property they claim to have owned for more than 20 years.
Judge Keo Mony said Friday the court would delay its decision, “to avoid clashes between authorities and villagers like yesterday.”
Twelve police and 13 villagers were injured in Thursday’s confrontation, when police sought to break up an assembly of protesters, using electric batons and water canons. Sun Bun Chhoun, a 49-year-old representative of the 88 families in the case, said villagers will protest the court until they get their land back.
Protesters burnt effigies in front of the court Friday, he said, to prevent the judge from issuing a verdict “without thinking.”
Investigators for the rights group Adhoc are monitoring the protests daily, an official of the group said.
Ky Dara, a representative of the Taiwanese company, said the protesters were not the rightful owners of the land, which the company purchased in 2000 to run a paper factory.
The court is hearing a dispute over 65 hectares of land in Kampong Speu province’s Oudong district, where villagers say a Taiwanese company is taking over property they claim to have owned for more than 20 years.
Judge Keo Mony said Friday the court would delay its decision, “to avoid clashes between authorities and villagers like yesterday.”
Twelve police and 13 villagers were injured in Thursday’s confrontation, when police sought to break up an assembly of protesters, using electric batons and water canons. Sun Bun Chhoun, a 49-year-old representative of the 88 families in the case, said villagers will protest the court until they get their land back.
Protesters burnt effigies in front of the court Friday, he said, to prevent the judge from issuing a verdict “without thinking.”
Investigators for the rights group Adhoc are monitoring the protests daily, an official of the group said.
Ky Dara, a representative of the Taiwanese company, said the protesters were not the rightful owners of the land, which the company purchased in 2000 to run a paper factory.
Armed Uprising!
ReplyDeleteArmed Uprising!
Armed Uprising!
I Urge all poeple for the day-long stand with armed with a few rifles and hand guns, axes, swords, spears
, knifes and sticks...etc to Uprising and confront with Hun Sen's oppressor and the force of evil axis which is the most hatred in the whole world.
C'on wakeup! fight for your freedom!
The freedom ain't fall down from the sky!
Let the freedom ring! Cambodia!
Let the freedom ring! Cambodia!
Let the freedom ring! Cambodia!
ah Ky Dara's ah Ky Tech brother.
ReplyDeleteThey are not khmer bood, they are chen-40% yuon born in srok khmer...
Very soon, every member of the government will own 20-30% share with the company. That way, make it easy to ousts or evict the poors from their land.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
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
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
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
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
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.
CONG-RESS OF PEOPLE PARTY!
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CARS OF PEOPLE PARTY!
CAPTURE PEOPLE PARTY!
COMPETING PEOPLE PARTY!
CONCEAL PEOPLE PARTY!
COMPLAINT PEOPLE PARTY!
COMPOUND OF PEOPLE PARTY!
CRITICIZE PEOPLE PARTY!
CALLING PEOPLE PARTY!
CONTROLLING PEOPLE PARTY!
CLUBING OF PRIVATE PARTY!
CRUISING PEOPLE PARTY!
COPS OF PRIVATE PARTY!
COURTS OF PRIVATE PARTY!
CUFFING PEOPLE PARTY!
COMMISSION OF PRIVATE PARTY!
COGNAC OF PEOPLE PARTY!
CHAMPAGNE OF PEOPLE PARTY!
COLLECTING PEOPLE PLOTS!
CLAIMED PEOPLE PROPERT
COMRADES OF PRIVATE PARTY!
COMPATRIOTS OF PRIVATE PARTY!
CRIMINAL PEOPLE PARTY!
COMMUNIST PEOPLE PARTY!
COMMUNICATION OF PRIVATE PARTY!
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CELEBRATING PEOPLE PARTY!
The judge made a rightful decision. They will resolve these issues in a peaceful manners. For the next election, who will these villagers vote for? That's is the question! I hope these villages will learn a lesson from this. You need to have some kinds of document to show that you are land owners.
ReplyDeleteMass Protest against the dictator Hun Sen is the only solution to free Cambodia from the bad foreigners: the Vietcongs, the Chinese, Koreans, etc.
ReplyDeleteThere are two types of foreigners: the good ones such as the Japanese, the UN, the Westerners, etc. who come to help building Cambodia a better place; while the bad foreigners such as the Vietcongs, the Chinese, the Koreans, the Thais are in Cambodia to steal from Khmer and oppress Khmer.
The Dictator Hun Sen regime only favors the bad foreigners, because they bring a lot of $$$ to Hun Sen and his gangs.
KHMER Angkor
That is what PM Hun Sen want to see. he canceled proudly the land title registration project of World Bank and left poor people without proper land document, so that it is easy to evict the poor from their land.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the Westerners, the UN and the Japaneses are good foreigners? These bastards are just as bad as Vietcongs, Chinese Korans and Siems. They're all money suckers. They will suck everything you have! Especially the white men, they are the worst! The UN? don't go there! Were they the ones who brought HIV/AID to Cambodian?
ReplyDelete10:20 What really happened was that the registration period was open for almost 10 years from the passage of the first land law by the National Assembly through the 2002 Land Law, but, even then, the 2002 land law allowed those who didn't have the 5 year but only part of it to apply for Title of Possession up to when the land management plan for that particular area was finalized.
ReplyDeleteI hate to say it,
ReplyDeleteBut I will burn down anything that was stolen from me.
Mass burning is the solution.
Remember the looding and burning it the " LA riot " ?
9:51AM,
ReplyDeleteYou think you know about Cambodia. But really you know so little. Or you just simply speack on behalf of the unethical government. Too bad they don't even paying you for it. IDIOT...
In order for people to do paper work, documentation process in Cambodia people must bribe officials. Then the officials bribes other officials on and on. If you don't bribe enough, things will not be done or done incorrectly.
However, although them villagers have documentation do you really think the government officials honor it? I don't think so.... these corrupted officials only see dollars!
Look at Mr. Sam Rainsy case. The polls has been map and was done and consult by international experts with the most current technologies available. Hun Sen and his corrupted officials keep denying the facts although they know it is the truth.
And you really think the villagers paper documentations will stop them corrupted governmen doing what they wants? I don't think so....
Look at this poor people only have slingshot, rocks, sticks and stone to battle against AK-47. I hate Cambodian government!
pouk khmer rouge hunsen ,hor nam hong ,kiet chhun ,chia sim, heng saom rin etc..from khmer 's murders to khmer's bandits. that's their nature.
ReplyDeletePeople need to rise up the evil dictator, Hun Sen. Don't just sit and cry. Act as the people in Kompong Speu did with the sling shot, stone, axes, knife, gun, etc... together men and women.
ReplyDeleteAs one comment said "If they take away your property and build new one, let burn it down at night to rubbish". Keep burning down the illegal land or property grabbing from the people. I bet they won't build it again.
Or kill whoever involve in attacking you or arrest you. Get revenge. If they play with the hard ball, play with the hard ball back.