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| Felled trees on land allegedly being cleared by Chea Chanrith Development in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district. Photograph supplied |
Chhay Channyda
The Phnom Penh Post
“This Vietnamese company owner didn’t clear community forest, but he cleared his land near the community forest”
A Vietnamese developer accused by an ethnic Jarai community of razing more than 30 hectares of community jungle in Ratanakkiri seemingly halted work on Monday, just as the community filed a complaint seeking the intervention of the rights group Adhoc, an NGO official said yesterday.
Adhoc provincial co-ordinator Chhay Thi said reporters, NGO workers and authorities had found an operational work site when they visited the area in question on Sunday, only to find the workers, equipment and even workers’ shelters removed the next day — the same day Jarai villagers in Lumchor commune, in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district, filed an official complaint against the company, Chea Chanrith Development.
“We found the withdrawal of tractors, but the community requested an intervention from the court prosecutor, the forestry administration and the provincial governor, so they have filed a complaint to us to continue appealing to these three authorities,” Thi said.
The cleared site, according to Adhoc’s investigation, had been dense jungle that could not be classified as degraded forest and was therefore not legally suitable for a forest concession.
The complaint, which Adhoc obtained on Monday, says the residents of Lumchor commune depend on the forest in question as the source of their livelihoods and as a wildlife sanctuary.
“We need to stop clearing the protected jungle in our community and request that the company re-plant trees in this forest,” commune chief Sev Thvan, who thumbprinted the complaint, said.
According to the complaint, the developer began clearing the forest on November 20 but “did not inform the community and local authorities.”
Although the company secured permission from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to clear 659 hectares of land in O’ Yadav and Bokeo district, it should have informed authorities and studied the impact of the work, Thvan said.
But Phan Phoeun, deputy director of the Ratanakiri Forestry Administration, said the site was a properly granted land concession, and that GPS measurements last week did not show that clearing was taking place in the Jarai’s community forest.
“This Vietnamese company owner didn’t clear community forest, but he cleared his land near the community forest,” Phoeun said.
“The land that his company has cleared is poor jungle, and [the concession] is to grow rubber trees.”
Chea Chanrith Development representative Chan Mab echoed Phoeun, noting that the clearance was approved, but declined to say why the site had suddenly fallen silent.
“We have a legal licence for over 659 hectares,” he said.
2 comments:
Hun Sen : Mr Sam Rainsy! What is your qualification so far?
Rainsy : I just have a few Samdach!
Hun Sen: Can you show me, Rainsy?
Rainsy: Ok!
Business Administration (Master of Business Administration from INSEAD - Fontainebleau - France) - 1980.
Accounting (Diplôme d'Etudes Comptables Supérieures issued by the French Ministry of Education) - 1979.
Economics (Maîtrise + Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures de Sciences Economiques de la Faculté de Droit et des Sciences Economiques de Paris) - 1973.
Political Science (Diplôme de l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris) - 1971.
Hun Sen: That’s ok, I’m much better in term of academic, Just look at mine as below PhD qualifications:
1991, an Honorary Ph.D. in Political Science, the National Political Academy, Hanoi.
1995 an Honorary Ph.D. in Politics, the Southern California University for Professional Studies, USA.
1996, an Honorary Ph.D. of Law, Iowa Wesleyan College, USA.
On April 10, 2001, an Honorary Ph.D. in Political Science, Graduate School of Dankook University, South Korea.
On November 15, 2001, an Honorary Ph.D. in Political Science in the field of Foreign Relations, the Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand.
On April 10, 2004, an Honorary Ph.D. in Political Science, the Irish International University of the European Union, Cambodia.
On September 15, 2004, Hun Sen has been accepted and sworn in as a member of the Bar Association of Cambodia.
On March 21, 2006, an Honorary Ph.D. in Political Science, the Soon Chun Hyang University, Seoul, received during his official visit to the Republic of Korea.
On June 28, 2006, an Honorary Ph.D. in Education for Locality Development, Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University, Thailand.
On January 29, 2007, an Honorable Ph.D. in Education, the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, along with the Hanoi National University of Education.
On September 21, 2007, an Honorary Fellowship of Companion of Commercial Diplomacy, the Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats (ACCD), England.
July 2008, the Honorable Professor of Diplomatic and International Relations, the Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica, Costa Rica.
On 7 January 2009, an Honorary Ph.D. in Economic, the Woosuk University of the Republic of Korea.
On 3 June 2009, an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Political Science, Korea University of the Republic of Korea.
12:50 PM,
Does Hun Sen speak, read and write English fluently according to his PhDs?
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