Prey Lang communities hot campaign against illegal logging when government support private company
25-28 March 2012
More than 200 people from 4 provinces of Prey Lang area, Kg. Thomm, Preah Vihear, Kratieh and Stung Treng hold a long campaign to raid illegal logging business by private companies in Prey Lang area stretched over 460, 000 hectares. When people hold long campaign with motorbike ridden throughout forest looking for illegal logging placed inside jungle, authorities and undercover of armed forces were deployed ready to prevent people from entering into there. A lot of rumors were used in order to threat against Prey Lang activists and their member’s family such as illegal charge, arrest.
During the outbreak, people fought against illegal loggers that did not have legal license but for licensed legally private companies were not yet attacked.
After CCHR public forum,authority did not take any legal action against company that did not respect of following procedure of concession in master plan project submitted to government.
According to my observation with Prey Lang, I found that only forestry communities took care and concerned deeply into Prey Lang and rallied with risk in order to protect remaining forest. In contrast government and provincial authority did not fulfill their duty to protect Prey Lang yet and also used armed forces of intelligent spy and undercover team to intimidate people stop campaign anymore against company.
Prime Minister Hun Sen also said again and again that Forest Administration and Ministry of Agriculture of Cambodia have to protect forest and resolve impact of ELC for benefit of people, should stop delay conflict, stop involved or get benefit from company in forest issue;but his order was not implemented. People always said that, land and forest were lost because of forest and land department officers who signed and cut land and forest to company for business.
Mr. Ouch Leng, would like to appreciate forest movement by communities and appeal to donors remove funds from government to support community rather than lost millions hectares of land by development policy and millions of forest were destroyed and logged by private company.It was injustice legal protection when poor community members were prevented when rich people were licensed legally. When government try to prevent people from campaign it meant automatically that government support and accomplice with company in illegal logging and take land from people like people alleged. Please consider again that who signed license of ELC and Forest Concession in Cambodia? So who (government officers) can come out to resolve these land and forest conflict? How we can reform with these issues? I think that from now on there is only one method of people campaign, out of law to protect land and forest.All donors would not be cheated again and again. Until when we can protect our land and forest? Until empty of land and forest?
Phnom Penh 28 March 2012
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5 comments:
The military police with the very old gun is looking so stupid. What the heck!
12:08AM!!!!! So no one can fight against the elite budyguard force of ah Kwack Hun Xen!!!!! Which is run and controle by his verry own son!!!! the youngest general!!!
Ah Chinoi just built weapeon warehouse for ah Kwack's Dick guard worth of millions!!!! just warehouse not count weapon and armunitions!
Who is responsible to give the license to Private Company to cut the forests?
Can't stand this. Hun Sen is stupid and doesn't know how to communicate or control CPP administrations who are responsible to provide the licenses to the wrong business folks.
It that Yuon CPP officials do the business Private Yuon Companies?
Take down the stupid Hun Sen, a Yuon slave of Yuon Hanoi masters.
What wrong with one eye Yuon dog?
12:08AM,
you're right. I wonder if that rifle can still fire.
3:33AM no problem, went he wake up he can not shoot the viet invaders!!
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