Cambodian Center for Human Rigths
PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release – Phnom Penh, 6 April 2010
Concerns over Confiscation of H.E. Son Chhay’s Land
For immediate release – Phnom Penh, 6 April 2010
Concerns over Confiscation of H.E. Son Chhay’s Land
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) condemns the expropriation of land belonging to Sam Rainsy Party (“SRP”) parliamentarian H.E. Son Chhay. The expropriation by the Apsara Authority of the three hectare parcel of land in Siem Reap, close to the Kyungyu tourist, site is of dubious legality and amounts to an act of intimidation of the opposition parliamentarian.
The CCHR is concerned by the legality of the expropriation for two reasons. Firstly, the use of the land by the Sokimex Group for a hotel development serves no clear public interest as required by Article 5 of the Land Law and Articles 2 and 4 of the Expropriation Law. In defence of the confiscation, Bun Narith, the general director of the Apsara Authority, is quoted in the Phnom Penh Post on 29 March 2010 to the effect that the land in question is state land that “is not bought or sold”. According to the same article however, the Apsara Authority has announced that it will confiscate and sell the land to the Sokimex Group. Secondly, the nominal compensation being provided to Son Chhay for his land of US$0.50 per square meter is not “fair or just” and has not been paid in advance as Article 5 of the Land Law and Articles 2 and 4 of the Expropriation Law require. This compensation falls dramatically short of the Apsara Authority’s own valuation of the land, which H.E. Son Chhay says will be sold to the Sokimex Group for US$80 per square meter.
Another disturbing feature of the land expropriation is the implicit intimidation of a SRP member through the courts of Cambodia. This is the latest in the series of incidents in which members of the SRP have been the victims of a judicial system subordinated to the Royal Government of Cambodia.
For more information please contact:
Ou Virak, President, CCHR
Tel: +855 12 40 40 51
Email: ouvirak@cchrcambodia.org
The CCHR is concerned by the legality of the expropriation for two reasons. Firstly, the use of the land by the Sokimex Group for a hotel development serves no clear public interest as required by Article 5 of the Land Law and Articles 2 and 4 of the Expropriation Law. In defence of the confiscation, Bun Narith, the general director of the Apsara Authority, is quoted in the Phnom Penh Post on 29 March 2010 to the effect that the land in question is state land that “is not bought or sold”. According to the same article however, the Apsara Authority has announced that it will confiscate and sell the land to the Sokimex Group. Secondly, the nominal compensation being provided to Son Chhay for his land of US$0.50 per square meter is not “fair or just” and has not been paid in advance as Article 5 of the Land Law and Articles 2 and 4 of the Expropriation Law require. This compensation falls dramatically short of the Apsara Authority’s own valuation of the land, which H.E. Son Chhay says will be sold to the Sokimex Group for US$80 per square meter.
Another disturbing feature of the land expropriation is the implicit intimidation of a SRP member through the courts of Cambodia. This is the latest in the series of incidents in which members of the SRP have been the victims of a judicial system subordinated to the Royal Government of Cambodia.
For more information please contact:
Ou Virak, President, CCHR
Tel: +855 12 40 40 51
Email: ouvirak@cchrcambodia.org
3 comments:
It seems Son Chhay is no longer useful to the CPP.
That's life.
KP
12:28PM, You are crazy motherfucker! Read you comments again! So every victims was CPP or its supporters?
Open your eye motherfucker! Not every living Cambodians that are not yet victims of your CPPs is CPP members or supporters. People don't respect your CPP government. But afraid because they have no ethics.
If you think many Cambodian citizens support CPP, why don't you dare your master Hun Sen or any of his officials walk alone. Disgraceful! Pathetic! You know they won't dare to walk alone on Cambodia soil! They'll be kill in a quick New York second!
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Members:
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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...
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Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
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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."
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Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
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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
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Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
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Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
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Human Trafficking
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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.
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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.
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Abuse the National Election Committee
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Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
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Death in custody.
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