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| Villagers watch as machinery owned by a sugar firm is loaded onto a truck during a protest in Kampong Speu on Friday. (Photo Supplied) |
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| Ly Yong Phat |
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post
Hundreds of villagers in Kampong Speu province have staged a sit-in to prevent the clearance of land they say is being grabbed illegally by tycoon and ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat.
About 300 villagers from Omlaing commune, in Thpong district, began their protest on Friday, setting up a blockade in front of excavators from Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar Company that they claim will bulldoze community homes and farmland.
The villagers are part of a group of more than 2,000 families that rights groups say will be displaced by Ly Yong Phat’s 8,343-hectare land concession.
“The villagers decided to stand in front of the bulldozers without regard for danger because the authorities have yet to intervene and halt the company’s activities,” village representative Phal Vannak said.
Police were on hand at the site yesterday along with company workers during the third day of the protest, which villagers said would continue until their land was no longer in danger.
“We will not let them clear the land because we haven’t sold it to anyone,” said Chhuon Chhun, another Omlaing resident. Company representatives have offered the villagers replacement plots of land, but these plots have been grabbed from other local residents,
he added.
Kampong Speu provincial governor Kang Heang said 90 percent of the villagers affected by the concession had already received compensation. Those staging the protest, he said, have been encouraged by human rights groups to grab the land illegally.
“We will continue to clear the land because they are living illegally on state land, and we will not compensate them,” Kang Heang said. “We will do everything in accordance with the applicable law.”
Thpong District Governor Tuon Song declined to comment yesterday, saying he was in a meeting related to the issue. Phnom Penh Sugar Company representatives could not be reached for comment.
Ly Yong Phat’s wife, Kim Heang, has been granted a 9,053-hectare land concession for her Kampong Speu Sugar Company that adjoins his Phnom Penh Sugar concession. This, villagers say, is in clear violation of the Kingdom’s 2001 Land Law, which limits the size of concessions to 10,000 hectares.
Omlaing villagers have been locked in the dispute with Phnom Penh Sugar since February, and more than a dozen have been summoned for questioning by the Kampong Speu provincial court in connection with the case.
In March, a group of villagers torched a makeshift building belonging to the company to protest the alleged encroachment on their land.
18 comments:
Kang Heang, which is it? Is it state land, or private land of Ly Yong Phat? Or are you saying, that He Wont Fat is now the state?
Thanks to the dictatorial Hun Sen regime, only the strong and rich survive. The one-eye Hun Sen only sees the rich who pay his family dearly, while the other blind eye is for Khmer Nation which he cannot see anything wrong at all. Wonder why the Hun Sen clan is rich, while the rest of Khmer nation is poor and struggling to make a living.
KHMER Angkor.
khmer must stand firm to protect our land and stand together any thing are possible and more Chances without do nothing.
I think most of cambodian didn't care because all that land not belong to them . They don't want to get involve. They said that your problem.The rich they get money and power.They can do what they want and no body know how rich they're want to be.I think They're willing to do that never end.The poor will suffer more and more and some way some how i wish them well.
Ly Yong Phat is a new Cambodian,
he is very rich,
he is a senator,
good luck Khmers..
Ly Yong Phat is a new Cambodian,
he is very rich,
he is a senator,
good luck Khmers..
Why he is so rich, do you all want to know:
1) Bussiness with white Diaments
2) Escape the tax
3) Prostitution
That is why is so rich. That is OK alle Khmer?
*SOME BAD DAY ALL khmer poor in that village will go up to the Mountain and rebuild one khmer freedom for anti Tai poon troops and Burn all that farm soon if no solution.
*Life like Dead...so no way to go for them.
KHMER1970
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fuck u ly yong you are dog.
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អោយខ្មែរស្នេហាជាតិនិងដើម្បីការពារមរតកជាតិ
របស់យើង។
អាយ៉ងក្បត់ជាតិ ហ៊ុន សែន ជាមេឃាតករឈាមត្រជាក់ ហើយក៏ជាមេគ្រោះថ្នាក់ធំជាងគេ បើមិននាំគ្នាកំចាត់
វាចោលទេ ប្រទេសខ្មែរគ្មានថ្ងៃបានសុខសាន្តឡើយ។
Ly Yong Phat is also owns the Phnom Penh Hotel.
Why Ly Yong Phat is rich?
He collected all his wealth for Hun Sen and for vietnam. Therefore he can get away from all his criminal activities.
AH NIS MUK MAY CHO!! MOK YUON....! VC=VIETCONG FACE!
AH NIS MUK MAY CHO!! MOK YUON....! VC=VIETCONG FACE! THIS FUCKER DONT LOOK CAMBODIAN....FUCKING YUON OR CHIN.
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he is cpp senator. he earns money for cpp from sand selling, land and other. he is also a real brutal land speculator from farmers and he is the cpp elite in money minded.
អាតៃហោង លី យ៉ុងផាត់ វាឃុបឃិតជាមួយអាយ៉ងយួន ហ៊ុន សែនកេងប្រវ័ញ្ចជាតិខ្មែរយើង
ខ្មែរយើងរាល់ថ្ងៃរស់ កំដរ ហ៊ុន សែននិងបក្សពួកវា
តែប៉ុណ្ណោះ
look like chinese bastard Business bullshit...someone kill this guys. Someone from the land need to kill this corrupted official. Let him died for that land! khmer get some balls...tired of this shit.
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