Showing posts with label Forced evicitons in Cambodia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forced evicitons in Cambodia. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mam Sonando jailed for secession in Kratie; Could face 9-1/2 to 21 years of jail time and fine between 5 to 12 million riels

ឃុំខ្លួន​លោក ម៉ម សូណង់ដូ ក្នុងករណី​បង្កើត​រដ្ឋ ក្នុង​រដ្ឋ នៅ​ខេត្តក្រចេះ​

ឃុំខ្លួន​លោក ម៉ម សូណង់ដូ ក្នុងករណី​បង្កើត​រដ្ឋ ក្នុង​រដ្ឋ នៅ​ខេត្តក្រចេះ​ត្រូវ​ប្រឈមមុខ​នឹង​ការជាប់​ពន្ធនាគារ​ពី ៩ ឆ្នាំ ៦​ខែ ទៅ ២១​ឆ្នាំ

ថ្ងៃទី 16 កក្កដា 2012 | ដោយ: ឆាយា
Cambodia Express News

ភ្នំពេញ: លោក ម៉ម សូណង់ដូ នាយក​វិទ្យុ​សំបុក​ឃ្មុំ​អេ​ហ្វ​អឹម ១០៥ មេ​ហ្គា​ហឺត និង​ជា​ប្រធាន​សមាគម​អ្នកប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ ត្រូវ​ប្រឈមមុខ​នឹង​ការជាប់​ពន្ធនាគារ​ពី ៩ ឆ្នាំ ៦​ខែ ទៅ ២១​ឆ្នាំ និង​ពិន័យ​ជា​ប្រាក់​ពី ៥ លាន​រៀល ទៅ ១២ លាន​រៀល បើសិនជា​តុលាការ​រកឃើញថា មាន​ពិរុទ្ធភាព​ក្នុងការ​ចោទប្រកាន់​ពីបទ ជា​អ្នកផ្តើមគំនិត​មាន​ស្ថាន​ទម្ងន់ទោស​ប្រឆាំងនឹង​អ្នករាជការ​សាធារណៈ​, ធ្វើ​កុបកម្ម​ជ្រៀតជ្រែក​ខុសច្បាប់ នៅក្នុង​ការបំពេញ​មុខ​ងារ​សាធារណៈ របស់​អាជ្ញាធរ និង​ញុះញង់​ឲ្យ​ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ​កាន់​អាវុធ​ប្រឆាំងនឹង​អាជ្ញាធរ​ស្របច្បាប់ ដែល​មានចែង​ក្នុង​មាត្រា​២៨, ៥០៤, ៤៥៧ និង​មាត្រា ៤៦៤ នៃ​ក្រមព្រហ្មទណ្ឌ​។​

​លោក ម៉ម សូណង់ដូ បាន​ត្រូវ​សមត្ថកិច្ច​ប៉ូលិស​នាយកដ្ឋាន​សន្តិសុខ​ផ្ទៃក្នុង ក្រសួងមហាផ្ទៃ ចាប់ខ្លួន​តាម​ដីកា​របស់លោក ចុក ងួន ចៅក្រម​ស៊ើបសួរ​សាលាដំបូង​ខេត្តក្រចេះ ចុះ​ថ្ងៃទី​២ ខែកក្កដា ឆ្នាំ​២០១២ នៅ​ចំណុច​ផ្ទះ ដែលជា​ស្ថានីយ​វិទ្យុ​សំបុក​ឃ្មុំ​អេ​ហ្វ​អឹម​១០៥ មេ​ហ្គា​ហឺត ស្ថិតនៅ​ភូមិ​ត្នោតជ្រុំ សង្កាត់​បឹងទំពុន ខណ្ឌមានជ័យ កាលពី​ព្រឹក​ថ្ងៃទី​១៥ ខែកក្កដា ឆ្នាំ​២០១២ រួច​បញ្ជូនមក​សាលាដំបូង​រាជធានី​ភ្នំពេញ កាលពី​ថ្ងៃទី​១៦ ខែកក្កដា ឆ្នាំ​២០១២ តាម​ដីកា​ផ្ទេរ​សមត្ថកិច្ច ដើម្បី​សាកសួរ​ពី​ដំណើររឿង ដែល​ត្រូវ​ចោទប្រកាន់ បទល្មើស ពាក់ព័ន្ធ​នឹង​បញ្ហាដីធ្លី​នៅ​ភូមិ​ប្រ​ម៉ា ឃុំ​កំពង់​ដំរី ស្រុក​ឆ្លូង ខេត្តក្រចេះ កាលពី​អំឡុង​ខែឧសភា ឆ្នាំ​២០១២ កន្លងទៅ​។​

Monday, June 25, 2012

Prisoners 'utilised' in violent eviction

Monday, 25 June 2012
Bridget Di Certo and Phak Seangly
The Phnom Penh Post

Twenty convicts in Preah Sihanouk Provincial Prison were employed by military and local authorities to tear apart a nearby village on land slated for a second prison compound, villagers and rights groups alleged yesterday.

However, prison authorities denied that any incarcerated people were involved in the actual eviction of villagers, despite multiple rights groups attesting to the prisoners’ participation.

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights said yesterday that an armed force of military police, along with 20 prisoners, descended on Village 16 in Sihanoukville town late last month and tore apart the homes and crops of about 16 families living in the area.

“The use of prisoners to carry out a forced eviction in Sihanoukville highlights the irresponsible and abusive manner in which the state is administering prison labour and carrying out forced eviction, breaching the legal and human rights of both prisoners and land occupants,” CCHR said in a case study of the eviction published over the weekend.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Accused secessionist in Kratie to meet with the press

Monday, 21 May 2012
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post

The man police allege was behind a so-called secession plan in Kratie province – an accusation used to justify a crackdown in which a teenager was killed last week – plans to hold a press conference to defend himself in the next two days, his brother said yesterday.

Hundreds of heavily armed police and military police assisted by a helicopter stormed Pro Ma village in Chhlong district’s Kampong Damrei commune on Wednesday and opened fire on villagers with automatic weapons, killing 14-year-old Heng Chantha.

The Ministry of Interior said they ordered the operation because a group known as Democratic Association, which they alleged was led by Bun Ratha, was planning to create an independent state in the village.

Eight people have been arrested in connection with the accusations.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Teenage Girl Killed in Land Clash

Military police round up residents of Broma village, May 16, 2012. (RFA)

Hundreds of security personnel force villagers to evacuate land in eastern Cambodia.

2012-05-16
Radio Free Asia

Security forces in eastern Cambodia fatally shot a teenage girl Wednesday during a clash over a land rights with villagers armed with axes and crossbows, rights groups and officials said, highlighting a spate of shootings by authorities on protesters and activists in the country.

The victim, 15-year-old Heng Chentha, was wounded after at least 400 military personnel carrying guns moved to disperse some 200 armed villagers from an area of land marked for development. She later died from her injury in a nearby hospital.

Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior blamed the leader of a Cambodia-based land rights organization and four others for leading the villagers in the clash, which occurred in Kratie province’s Chhlong district.

Authorities said that military police and soldiers moved into the area after community leaders had rejected demands to vacate farmland in Kampong Domrey commune’s Broma village for several months.

They said that the government owns the land, but activists contend that it had already been awarded as a concession to Russian firm Casotim, which plans to set up a rubber plantation.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

CPP MPs for the 2008-2013 mandate

Dear Readers,

Please keep the name of the 90 CPP MPs for posterity, they participated and supported (1) the sale of the country, (2) the evictions of people, (3) the 99 years economic land lease to Yuon and Chen. Please keep this document to show to the next Khmer generations so that they know these traitors. When the CPP got 90 seats at the 2008 national election, the country became worst and worst.

S.S.


http://www.box.com/s/4267580fe39a4363d308

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Koh Kong Fishing Community Rejects Chinese Development [-Another forced eviction for an ILLEGAL land concession?]

A Cambodian evictee stands by her hut in Preah Sihanouk Province. She is among 100 families that were evicted from a disputed land in April 2007. (Photo: VOA Khmer)

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
"In the past we never faced any difficulty."
Fishermen in the coastal province of Koh Kong have accused a Chinese-owned company of forcefully evicting more than 1,000 families from their land and businesses to clear space for new development.

Union Development Group Co., Ltd, from China was granted a 99-year contract in 2008 to develop for tourism 36,000 hectares of coastal area in Koh Kong province’s Botum Sakor and Kiri Sakor districts.

Villagers said they have been relocated 20 kilometers away to a site where access to the sea is limited.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Released of 6 Borei Keila residents jailed in Prey Sar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zHx5f5eqjI

Group Calls for Halt to Railway Development Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc_phYTHihU

Friday, 17 February 2012
Men Kimseng, VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
“The government should put a halt to the relocation of people until proper resettlement is in place.”
Bridges Across Borders says a project funded by the Asian Development Bank is displacing families to inadequate relocation sites and should be halted until proper sites can be found.

Cambodia’s railroads are in terrible condition, and renovation of rail lines could improve the movement of goods not only in the country but across the region.

However, thousands of families will be moved from their homes along the railway in the process.

Bridges Across Borders says the project is forcing families into deeper poverty, with some forced to take on debt from local money lenders in order to reconstruct their homes.

“The government should put a halt to the relocation of people until proper resettlement is in place,” said Eang Vuthy a project manager for Bridges Across Borders.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

សុំជូនតាមសំណើ - Per your request....: Political satire by Anonymous

Suy Sophan: Ha, ha! Yesterday, we caught 8 of them, today we got 30 of them. Are there anymore, King Father?

Sihanouk: To the 3 samdachs (Hun Xen, Chea Xim and Heng Xamrin), please fulfill per the request made...

Friday, December 02, 2011

One woman against a wall of cops

Riot police scuffle with residents of Boeung Kak lake during a protest in front of the City Hall in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thousands of families living near the lake are facing eviction to make way for a Chinese development project.
Samrang Pring/Reuters

Friday, October 21, 2011

Land is Life

The Sam Rainsy Party teams travel deep inside Cambodia to educate, mobilize and empower the people.

Let us join our voice and let us take a big step forward through grassroots organizing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blas15UDSS8

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Court suspends questioning of Boeung Kak Lake residents in fear of the number of BKL supporters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFL5YWNVMB8

Demonstrators at Court Delay Questioning of Lake Residents

Protesters gathered in front of the court Tuesday morning displaying photographs of the Sept. 16 eviction. (Photo: by Heng Reaksmey)
More than 100 people Boeung Kak lake residents showed up in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to demonstrate. (Photo by Heng Reaksmey)
A woman, dressed in white, display documents from the land dispute. (Photo by Heng Reaksmey)
A Cambodian police keeps order outside of the court. (Photo by Heng Reaksmey)

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
"... I need the freedom to live and the freedom of expression, but now everything is banned by the Cambodian government.”
Phnom Penh Municipal Court postponed the questioning of eight Boeung Kak lake residentsTuesday, after more than 100 people showed up in front of the court to demonstrate.

Tep Vanny, who has been a representative of lake residents refusing to take a developer’s buyout in the neighborhood, was summoned for questioning over a counter-lawsuit brought by city officials.

The officials say that a lawsuit brought by eight villagers, led by Tep Vanny, against the city and the developer, Shukaku, Inc., claiming they had been left out of a land compromise, was defamatory. Residents issued the complaint after their homes were destroyed in a Sept. 16 forced eviction.

Tep Vanny told reporters at the court on Tuesday that her questioning had been postponed due to the gathering of supporters in front of the court.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Justice for Suong Sophaon


Thursday, September 22, 2011
By Mu Sochua

Last week Sam Rainsy Party youth leader Suong Sophaon was brutally attacked by riot police at Boueng Kak Lake. Sophoan went to the lake community when he received desperate calls from the villagers that police were there to demolish the people's homes.

Today Mu Sochua MP accompanied Sophaon to the Phnom Penh court where he filed a complaint against the riot police for this brutal beating. The attack that left him unconscious in a pool of blood was caught on video and watched on Youtube and Facebook by at least 10,000 viewers across the world.

Sophaon survived the same attack when he wanted to present a petition to the UN Secretary-general during his visit to Cambodia early this year. No justice was ever provided to Sophoan despite severe beating by the police at that time.

Outside the court Sochua explained that Sophaon proved that the youth will not be silenced by intimidation, by fear, by violence. The youth will continue to fight for justice, for Cambodia.