Friday, May 21, 2010

KSpeu land row heard at forum

Villagers in Kampong Speu province who are involved in a land dispute with the Phnom Penh Sugar Company protest the arrest of community representatives outside the provincial court on March 24. ( Photo by: Will Baxter)

Friday, 21 May 2010

May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post


HUNDREDS of villagers affected by an economic land concession in Kampong Speu province’s Omlaing commune complained during a public forum Thursday that soldiers and company employees were preventing them from planting corn on their land, even though they had been issued new land titles.

During the forum, organised by the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), villagers, rights groups, parliamentarians and local authorities discussed disputes stemming from the 9,000-hectare land concession granted to the Phnom Penh Sugar Company, which is owned by Cambodian People’s Party senator Ly Yong Phat.

“Even though some villagers have gotten new land titles from the provincial authorities, the soldiers are not allowing them to plant corn on their farmland,” said San Tho, a villager who attended the forum.

Hab Dam, Omlaing commune chief, said that more than 200 villagers had been issued new titles since last month. Despite this, she said, “The company did not allow some villagers to plant crops because their land had already been cleared, so those villagers will have to relocate.”

Chhean Kimsuon, a Phnom Penh Sugar Company representative, said by phone that the villagers “always made up lies” and that the company had a right to “protect its land”.

“The villagers are tricksters,” she said. “They haven’t planted anything on their own land but they want to plant corn on the company’s land.”

The soldiers are like a “referee”, she said, adding that the company had already cleared about 3,000 hectares. “When the rainy season starts, we will start planting sugarcane,” she said.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really never understand why this government of Hun Xen has abused Khmer poeple so unjustly as to deprive them of their land? Are Hun Sen, Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Om Yintieng, Sok An, Hor Namhong, and their comrades the second wave of the vicious Khmr Rouge or are they the Youns' puppets? They are the nation destroyers!!!!

Anonymous said...

It's about time for Khmers living outside Cambodia to tell your brother, sisters, cousin, and all your friends living inside Cambodia to rises up against a dictatorship regime. Wake up Cambodian if you want to have basic right and freedom of speech you MUST stand up for your self.

Anonymous said...

Why not the court or goverment administration use as referee?

Soldiers as referee?

You motherfucker ah kwack Hun Xen give green light for soldiers to accept bride from a company to kill people??????

Anonymous said...

Does Cambodia has a legitimate land Law? A land title could be issued at anytime without the consent from the legal land or property owner. In other words, if you are issued a legal land title, do not mean you are legally own your property. Cambodia needs an independent justice system to combat this and other matters. For this reasons if you are a low-scale investor, would you want to invest in Cambodia? Someone really has to deal with this corrupt Cambodian govt.

Anonymous said...

But the land belong to the king! And the king give all power to Pm Hun Sen!

Some people have to be sacrify for the better of the nation, king, and religion!

PM Hun Sen is the protector of them all!

Anonymous said...

Cambodia land is belong to Cambodia and Cambodian people. It must not be illegally owned by a powerful govt official or its elites. People have the power. Khmer should learn from Red Shirt Thai protesters who could bring the heart of Bangkok stand still. GO KHMERS GO.

Anonymous said...

How would this youn BASTARD ly yong phat feel if a greater authority took over the homeland of his mother, father, and family? He'd be crying like a little bitch that he is if hun sen can't help his crooked ass!! They might have taken other's homeland now, but the CPP won't own any land when they're in hell. Their whole party will all be cramped up inside a small booth the size of a coffin when they're in hell!! Start thinking about your soul hell CPP!!

Anonymous said...

You can't solve this kind of problem on the street. Civilized world would do this in court, but you have to trust the outcome of the court. The problem in Cambodia, is some where in between, the people do not trust the outcome when the decision is not in their favor, at the same time the Cambodian court is well known as corrupted court, so here you go. How do you solve it ?????

So as the red shirt in Thailand, they don't trust their court either, because it is not in their favor.

Anonymous said...

Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime

Members:
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. 

Anonymous said...

Vietcong regime in THE KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA.

Anonymous said...

If I am one of the people that loose the land to the land grabber and the government could not do any things about it what should I do ?
-play cool do nothing until that tycoon had their sugar cans grown and I sneak in burn them up.
- become home grown terrorist .

Anonymous said...

The dictator Hun Xen is the chef landgrabber in Cambodia,he is the land rubber,the gang and cambodia mafia!!!Hun Xen allow the CPP members to steal the own people!!!

Anonymous said...

First ah hun sen allows vietnam to encroach on Cambodia's land from the outside. Now he allows this youn BASTARD mother fucker ly yong phuc to grab his own Khmer peoples land internally. what will the land of my great ancestors become? That's it. All of you CPP are going to hell just like the khmer rouge for sure!!