Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Land Dispute: Villagers in Svay Rieng demonstrate

Tuesday, 04 May 2010
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post


About 200 residents of Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district staged a protest in front of the district police office on Monday to demand the release of a representative who was arrested in the morning in connection with a land dispute involving a rubber company. Pao Chhat, one of the protesters, said Yea Yeoung had been arrested one day after he and 100 residents of Tras commune gathered in front of the Peam Chaing Rubber Company in an effort to convince the company to reopen a road that had been cut off for five days. “We want to ask district police why they arrested him. They should arrest all of the villagers because we went together. It wasn’t just him,” he said. Roughly 400 families in Romeas Hek have accused the company of impinging on their cassava and cashew plantations. Representatives said they filed a complaint with the district governor against the company in December 2009 but have yet to receive a response. District police chief Chum Ry accused Yea Yeoung of threatening military police during Sunday’s protest. Company owner Neang Sarin could not be reached for comment.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chum Ry is the distric police chief,
he received money from Yuon rubber company,
he help this company to grab lands from Khmers,
he accuses Khmers of threatening police man,
he does exactly like Hun Sen,
Hun Sen accuses Sam Rainsy of helping Khmers to bring back lands from Yuon thives.

Anonymous said...

The Khmers should adopt the strategy used by Malay Muslim in south tailand to kill the illegal viets. No talking, no public declarations.