Cambodia police clash with protesters at Nike contractor
BBC News | 3 June 2013
Police say 20 officers were injured by stones and sticks thrown by protesters
Police in Cambodia have clashed with thousands of workers outside a factory making clothes for the US sportswear company, Nike.
Violence flared as police tried to break up a confrontation between those on strike and those who are working.
The striking workers want the owners of the factory outside the capital Phnom Penh to increase their pay.
Cambodia's garment industry employs hundreds of thousands of people and is the country's biggest export earner.
Police said they intervened after protesters threw stones at
the factory in Kompong Speu and fighting broke out between rival groups
of workers.
"We had to break them up in order to protect the factory," said police spokesman Kheng Tito.
He said that 20 officers had been injured by stones and sticks.
Son Vanny, organiser of the Free Trade Union (FTU), said its
members exchanged barrages of sticks and stones on Monday with workers
opposing the strike, after which riot police moved in.
The FTU said at least 10 people were injured and seven workers arrested, although police would not confirm any arrests.
The Taiwanese-owned Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing factory employs more than 3,000 workers, mostly women.
Protests began on 21 May when workers demanded a pay increase to the equivalent of $88 (£57.34) per month from $74.
There were violent scenes at the factory last week when
police allegedly used stun batons to disperse protesters who were
blocking a road.
Nike, for whom the factory is a contractor, expressed concern after that incident, AP news agency reported.
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Joining a Union is like joining a ganster. Not much different from that of CPP Party? My way or the highway?
ReplyDeleteVC, Chinese and the CPP traitor crooks are very good at lying, decieving and manipulation. Their evil tricks are plantiful. They like to create one problem after another. They create all kinds of chaotic way of life for our khmer nation. They make sure, we are living in a confusing state of mind while they continue to rob, steal and kill us khmers. e,g they created Pol Pot to fight against Lon Nol/Sirik Matak (with their promised of giving back khmer krom to both kingta and pol pot to rule forever), then, they created Chea Sim, Heng Sarin and Hun Sen to fight against Pot Pot known as 'killing two birds with one stone' or 'making khmers killed khmers', as a result of this, 3 milion of our educated ones are gone, dead, and then, they went on to say 'khmers are dumb, stupid and lazy', while they continue to rob, steal and kill us khmers, by using Hun Sen and his CPP clan to do their dirty works for them like always, how nice!.
ReplyDeleteThey'd done it before and they will do it again and again, until all of the Southeast Asia belong to both Vietnam and China (they took laos, Champa, Prey Nokor (Saigon), Khmer Krom, Kosh Tral Island ( Phuc Qoc) and now the whole srok khmer). They are well known as the 'expansionism', because they had learnt it well off from their past ancestors like, e,g the 'Gingish Can, Opium Trade (by UK and US), the Spanish and Japanese's invasion', around the world and so on. Such action is pure evil because every nation needs to have its own state sovereignty and 'not to interfere in each other internal affair', but so far, these kinds of behaviour have been over rulled and in the end, everyone is suffered like so.
It is time to reflect back on what went wrong and it is time to make an apology to one another in the name of 'love. respect, right and just', as the good 'human being', where we should know better, because even dogs know right from wrong e,g its own territory and who its owner is. So, it is time for Viets, Chinese and CPP with good moral to make the right move for the benefit of the innocent people because if the good do nothing, the evil will win.
And also, no matter what happens, the truth will always be the truth and the truth shall set us free. In this world, of course there is a higher being known as "God" that is why every nation has their own belief in the name of different religion known as Christianity, Buddhism, Hunduism, Islamic, etc or with the same belief of 'karma...do good not bad' etc, So, why lie, decieve and manipulate, when in the end, god knows every move you make, anyway? and in the end, ' the righteous will live forever and the wicked will be terminated',
So, for the wicked ones, you can run but you can't hide, so might as well do good. Jesus once said 'the wealth of the wicked will oneday flow back into the hands of the righteous', so no matter how hard you worked for, it will mean nothing! because of their lies. Today, more and more people have moved beyond such action like, everything has been made with mutual agreement, such as, proper contract agreement and so on. Not with robbing, stealing and killing anymore, accept in Cambodia, where it is being controlled by a group of 'mafia', that is all.
3million souls