Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Villagers face blockade in Sihanoukville

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post

MILITARY police in Preah Sihanouk province have surrounded a local community following a Supreme Court ruling in a land dispute and were forcing residents to register as they moved in and out, villagers said yesterday.

On Friday, the Supreme Court declared that a piece of land in Stung Hav district’s Commune 1 that is home to 149 families belongs to the developer Ly Hong Sin Company. Over the weekend, local authorities bulldozed 78 homes in the community.

Yesterday, Stung Hav resident Hem Sophoan said military police had formed a cordon outside the community.

“Only villagers living inside are allowed to enter,” she said. “We have to register with our name and house number to go outside, and we have to do the same thing when we come back home.”


Stung Hav resident Lou Vannaret said other villagers had been banned from accessing their dwellings entirely.

“Villagers should be allowed to enter to take care of their property, but they are being stopped by military police,” Lou Vannaret said.

Kim Eng, vice president of Preah Sihanouk provincial court, said villagers were to dismantle the 43 remaining homes in the community within one month, adding that the road to the village had been blocked only after the court verdict.

Local residents claim to have lived in the area since 1999. Ly Sin Hong representatives could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Sun Sakan, deputy governor of Preah Sihanouk province, said local authorities were simply executing the orders of the Supreme Court and had no say in the matter.

“I don’t know what compensation will be paid to the victims. We’ll let them discuss this with the owner of the land,” he said.

Hem Sophoan said villagers had been told they would not receive compensation, and were planning to file complaints against the developer.

“I have been living here since 1999 with permission from local authorities,” she said. “I did not grab anyone else’s land.”

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen is a Khmer rouge,
he shows you his true color,
Khmer rouge era is back..

Anonymous said...

LONG LIVE VIET NAM... let our brothers and sisters who hold all level of officials cambodian government position to take full control of this useless country and make it into our new viet nam provinces. LONG LIVE VIET NAM..Thank to HUN SEN for doing a good work to take more money from china..

thank also to His Excellency SOK Sihpana, Phay Siphan and Sarin Denora for their lip services and manipulates international communities for our vietnam interest.

Anonymous said...

WELCOME TO WEST KAMPUCHEA KROM!

Anonymous said...

If we don't try hard enough, we will not be able to gain back our motherland.

Anonymous said...

You see how savage, inhuman, atrocious this knhom-Yuon government is.

Anonymous said...

The only way out for this trouble is to make war against this yourn'n puppet government.

Anonymous said...

All Khmer brothers and sisters please wake up help to save our motherland. If not you will be Champa in not too long.Our motherland is crying for help; please wake up wake up wake up......

Anonymous said...

The “Viet’s oil and gas exploration on land for Viet companies” is their way to control the “Khmer Nationalist’s forces” that has been built to fight back with Yourns and their puppets.
They will try to play game again in the international political views.

Anonymous said...

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NO BODY FORCE YOU TO JOINT SRP OR READ KI!

GO GET YOUR PhD WITH AH KWACK, FOOL!!!

MAY LIGHTNING STRIKE YOU, IF YOU ARE AH HUN XEN CPP MOTHERFUCKER!

Anonymous said...

Khmer abroad must go out to protest,if they want her country out from Vietcamlao Federation.All together we make a big difference.