The villagers came to protest in several trucks (Photo: DAP news)
The two protesters who were released on bail (Photo: DAP news)By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
29 March 2010
Kampong Speu court released two men on bail Monday, following a week of turbulent protests on their behalf.
Yu Tho and Khim Rithy were detained last week and charged with arson, after allegedly burning down the offices of a sugar plantation in the midst of a land dispute.
Around 500 villagers protested the decision, clashing with police and blocking traffic in the provincial town.
The court will require the men to appear twice a month to ensure they do not run.
Am Sam Ath, an investigator with the rights group Licadho, said the release of the men had not solved the underlying issue, as villagers claim they were pushed off their land by the sugar company, owned by a senator in the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
Yu Tho and Khim Rithy were detained last week and charged with arson, after allegedly burning down the offices of a sugar plantation in the midst of a land dispute.
Around 500 villagers protested the decision, clashing with police and blocking traffic in the provincial town.
The court will require the men to appear twice a month to ensure they do not run.
Am Sam Ath, an investigator with the rights group Licadho, said the release of the men had not solved the underlying issue, as villagers claim they were pushed off their land by the sugar company, owned by a senator in the ruling Cambodian People’s Party.
We welcomed the decision just judiciary.
ReplyDeleteBecause these 2 villager have committed no crime.
I'm so glad to see that the Villagers/victims of land-grabbing are uniting and fighting against this injustice!
ReplyDeleteTo: Lee Yong Phat:
ReplyDeleteYou are very richest
Man. Why are you want to have more Money? Do you know? When you die, you could not carry these Money with you. Please you don't rob land Khmer again. Let Khmer live in peace with land, rice field and Home. From Nareth, Ca, USA
Don't get me wrong, these two men committed the arson. They shouldn't have burnt Mr. Phat's sugar office. Common sense, stick with peace, don't play fire with fire. What happens to non-violence? peace, yall!
ReplyDeletewith yuons or yuon'dogs cpp ,they're deaf.blind as hun sen, how you expect them to listen to the farmers. Only kill them alls if they your land.don't listen to cpp yuon shit.
ReplyDeleteif they robb your land.
ReplyDeleteHOR NAMHONG WILL LOSE IN FRENCH COURT. THIS IS NOT CAMBODIA OR THE KANGAROO COURT REMEMBER. GET READY TO LOSE HOR NAMHONG. I KNOW YOU HAD LOTS OF MONEY BECAUSE YOU CORRUPTED SUCK ALL THE CAMBODIAN BLOOD FROM INTERNATIONAL AID SO AND SO. HOPE YOU WILL DOWN SOON AS WELL AS HUN SEN, CHEA SIM, HENG SAMRIN, AND THE REST OF YOUR GANGS. THE REST OF YOUR MAFIA WILL SEE HOK LUNDY IN HELL.
ReplyDelete5:45 AM,
ReplyDeleteBut French judges will take bribes from Hor 5 Hong.
What do you expect from that French corruptive judiciary system?
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
ReplyDeleteMembers:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Those who are under threat of loosing lands or have lost lands due to forced evictions, greedy development projects, time to coordinate your protest, now. Take time and make sure you have good coordination to bring your concern to the government of Cambodia. Learn from the Thais, Phillipines, Indonesia - people's power. You will get your government's attetion for sure. Otherwise, your future is NIL.
ReplyDelete6:10 am
ReplyDeleteEnough is enough! I dare you to confront with PM Hun Sen and his clans. don't tell me you are a coward? Double dare you to say what you have posted to PM Hun Sen. I guess, you are just a loner. You probably don't have a life, just sit in front of your computer and post the same old freakin' shit again and again. WTF, Don't you think, people get enough of your shit! Freakin' bastard shit?
All Khmers, the real owners of Cambodia,
ReplyDeleteYou cannot win this Mafia Hanoi's Puppet Khmetr Government by LEGAL MEANS.
An Armed Uprising is a Must to figth for your Freedom, and liberate yourselves from Vietnamisation of Cambodia.
Otherwise all of you, Khmers, will be Hanoi's slaves on your ancestors lands in the near future.
Enough is enough for this Corruptive Hun Sen's families and cronies.
Why the court does not/never accuse the Oknha or Companies for Grabbing land/ demolishing people property.. land, Vegetation, houses etc..??? in many casein Cambodia being accused only poor people...Never being accused (companies)who used many equipment/Buldosers, tractors to clear people properties////
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