By Pen Bona
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luch Ky-Luch
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As part of a land dispute, the Adhoc human rights organization demands that the Svay Rieng justice release the representative of families who are threatened with eviction.
In a communiqué issued on Monday 24 May, Adhoc deplores the arrest of the representative of the Peam Chaing families who are opposed to a rubber plantation company. Adhoc demands for an immediate release of the arrested villager and it also denounces the attempt by the Svay Rieng provincial court to arrest fifteen other farmers.
According to Adhoc, the conflict should not be brought to court yet at this point because the government was trying to solve the problem. However, Adhoc reminds that the villagers’ protest is legal: “According to the 2001 land law, they own these lands that this private company tries to clear since 2007,” the Adhoc communiqué indicated.
Adhoc also noted that the authorities were in a hurry to take care of this matter whereas the private company involved in the land dispute did not even fill the paperwork needed to obtain a land concession.
In a communiqué issued on Monday 24 May, Adhoc deplores the arrest of the representative of the Peam Chaing families who are opposed to a rubber plantation company. Adhoc demands for an immediate release of the arrested villager and it also denounces the attempt by the Svay Rieng provincial court to arrest fifteen other farmers.
According to Adhoc, the conflict should not be brought to court yet at this point because the government was trying to solve the problem. However, Adhoc reminds that the villagers’ protest is legal: “According to the 2001 land law, they own these lands that this private company tries to clear since 2007,” the Adhoc communiqué indicated.
Adhoc also noted that the authorities were in a hurry to take care of this matter whereas the private company involved in the land dispute did not even fill the paperwork needed to obtain a land concession.
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Land concession now, Vietnamese build house later...
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