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15/01/2013 - Chhoyk village, Srei Ambel district (Koh Kong - Cambodia). K. K. (13) hugs his litle sister after a day working in the sugar cane plantations. © Thomas Cristofoletti 2013
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16/01/2013 - Sugar plantation of Srei Ambel (Koh Kong - Cambodia). B. S. (11) has a break with other sugar cane's recollectors. © Thomas Cristofoletti 2013
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Finally a moment for playing for N. T. (9), after a long day working in the sugar cane plantations. © Thomas Cristofoletti 2013
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16/01/2013 - Sugar plantation of Srei Ambel (Koh Kong - Cambodia). B. S. (11) carries a bunch of sugar cane. To help his family (evicted by their land in 2006), Seth works normally 2 days a week trying to not loose too many days of school. © Thomas Cristofoletti 2013
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For additional shocking photos, please visit: http://www.thomascristofoletti.com/blood-sugar/
January 20, 2013
By Thomas Cristofoletti
Cambodia, Ongoing projects
Originally posted at: http://www.thomascristofoletti.com/blood-sugar/
In Cambodia today, hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced from their homes, farmlands, forests and fisheries as investors plunder the country for private profit in the name of ‘development’.
In rural areas, more than 2 million hectares have been granted to private companies as concessions for the development of agro-industrial plantations.
The sugarcane industry has been one of the worst offenders driving this land-grabbing crisis. At least 75,000 hectares in economic land concessions have been granted to private companies for industrial sugarcane production in recent years.
These concessions have led to the destruction of protected forests, the pollution of water sources, and the forced displacement and dispossession of hundreds of families in Koh Kong, Kampong Speu, Oddar Meanchey and Svay Rieng provinces.
Crops have been razed. Animals have been shot. Homes have been burned to the ground. Thousands of people have been left destitute. Some have been thrown in jail for daring to protest.
Many families, after loosing their lands and their only source of income, have been forced to send their children to work in the plantations.
This is an ongoing project made in collaboration with Nicolas Axelrod and with the support of Equitable Cambodia and Inclusive Development International
For more information, visit www.boycottbloodsugar.net
(extract of the text from "Boycott Blood Sugar" - stop the sugar industry from bleeding Cambodian farmers by taking their land)
4 comments:
Oh God, they make Khmers to be slave for them.
I'll go burn down that sugar cane field one day or burn down ah Yong chi Phat as well.Ah chhkae chor looch dey khmers=thieves stolen khmers'land.
I like to ask you one question :
Sihanouk when he went to study at Saigon, he stayed with Bao Dai. He has adventure with Bao Dai's daughter and they (Sihanouk and Bao Dai'daughter) had a daughter. When he come back to Cambodia, Sihanouk gave Cochinchine to Bao Dai or Vietnamese as a present to his girlfriend, the Bao Dai's daughter. Now the daughter of Sihanouk and Bao Dai's daughter work at Cambodia, it seems with Sar Kheng at Interior Ministry. Do you know that ?
Seth, you're hard working boy. you'll have a bright future. don't give up school and don't forget moment time of this childhood. I had gone through that hard time when was a little boy. So I understand what you're doing right now. Hope that someday I have opportunity to do my best for my beloved country Cambodia.
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