Villagers in Kampong Speu protest against Phnom Penh Sugar Company for land grabbing. (Photo: by Heng Reaksmey)Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Wednesday, 12 May 2010
"Such provision of land concessions is clearly contradicted to…Article 59 of [the] Land Law.”The government has granted tens of thousands of hectares of unlawful land concessions to a small group of companies, some of them owned by the same person, a coalition of rights groups said Wednesday.
The concessions violated portions of the land law and a sub-decree on economic land concessions, according to the coalition, comprised of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee, NGO Forum and Housing Rights Task Force.
The law says that each concession must be below 10,000 hectares for any individual owner of a company.
But an investigation into the deals found “that although different locations are granted as land economic concessions to different company names, they are of course run and owned by only the same physical person with the size bigger than 10,000 hectares,” according to the coalition.
The coalition specifically named the Koh Kong Sugar Industry Company, granted 9,700 hectares in 2006; the Angkor Sugar Investment Company, granted 9,863 hectares in 2007; and the Phnom Penh Sugar Company, granted 8,343 hectares in 2010.
All three companies are owned by Ly Yong Phat, a powerful senator for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party who is currently engaged in an ongoing land dispute for the 2010 concession, in Kampong Speu province’s Omlieng commune, Thpong district.
“Such provision of land concessions is clearly contradicted to…Article 59 of [the] Land Law,” the coalition said in a statement.
Omlieng villagers say the Phnom Penh Sugar Company has pushed them from their farms, and they have staged multiple protests in the commune and provincial capital, including the burning of several company buildings and a bulldozer.
The coalition said the unlawful concessions “do not really contribute to a sustainable national development of Cambodia” and instead create a negative reputation for the country. The groups called on the government to cease new concessions, publicly review current ones and cancel those that are not in line with the land law.
They also recommended the government return land to people that was lost in unlawful concessions.
8 comments:
All Khmers,
You don't have other choice, but to organise an Armed Uprising against these Hanoi's Puppet Hun Sen's families and cronies.
All of you are in a loose-loose situation by Legal Means.
Freedom will never come from the Sky. You have to fight to get that.
Hun Sen and Hanoi will continue to oppress you and confiscate your lands for their own interessts.
And how many Vietnamese illegal immigrants in Cambodia now ??? 5-6 million and continues to add on.
The Hanoi's Vietnamisation is step by step and almost finished to their goal The "Indochina Federation".
All of you will be Hanoi's slaves on your ancestors Lands very soon.
They cannot kill all of you in all Sroks and all Provinces, otherwise the whole world will step in.
If you don't dare to die you won't survive, rise up with Axes,Swords, Sticks, Knives, and possible hand Guns, shot guns to riot and kill them for your Freedom and liberate your country from the vietnamese yoke.
Dumbest Khmer people are Holding Ah Hun Sen and Mi Ka Heang Picture.
Picture of Ah Hun Sen and Mi Ka Heang aren't going to help you, only you can help yourself.
be strong!
12;05om.
I oppose your old style of killing strategy.
These protestors knew that this couple Hun Sen and his wife are mafia family, and they are the ones who sold land to foreign business. But why they still raise this couple pictures? The same Red shirts who hate the monarchy especially hate King Pumipon's wife and his crazy son still hold pictures of the King and his wife.
40% of goverment officials are VN.
60% of Khmer land are provide to VN private business as Economic Land Concession, only this way that can cut land for VN and it's a legal based.
Keep on holding the pictures of Hun Sen and Bun Rany you people . Hun Sen is the one who give your land to those developing companies.You people just never learn ... you voted for him to be your Prime Minister and then he took your land and gave it to the rich .
12:14 PM
You know very little about the Red Shirt . Keep your mouth shut on that one .
All of public lands in Kg Speu are your, villagers, not properties of Hun Sen, nor any of his ministers, neither Ly Yong Phat.
The usurper Abhisit used tactic creating the black uniform to infiltrate in Red shirts just killed the leader of red shirts; he must be pusnished for his crimes so the absolute moneky monarchy.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/thailand.anti-government.protests/index.html
Post a Comment