មន្រី្តសមត្ថកិច្ចកំពុ​ងប្រទូសរាយ​ជាមួយក្រុម​កម្មករ - Clash between strking workers and the cops at the SH factory

Confrontation between the striking workers and the cops at the SH factory (Photo: FTUWKC)

នៅម៉ោង6 និង១៥នាទីព្រឹកថ្ងៃទី25 ខែមេសា ឆ្នាំ២០១២ នេះកម្មករ អេសអេក បន្តធ្វើ កូដកម្ម នៅខាង មុខរោងចក្រ រហូត មានប្រទូសរាយ ជាមួយ និង មន្រ្តី សមត្ថកិច្ចទៀតផង។ លោកអធិការរង តូច ផន បានគម្រាម កំហែងកម្មករ ឈ្មោះ ខុំ ខុនថា សហជីព មិនអាច ការពារ អ្នកឯងបាន ២៤ម៉ោងទេ។

សូម បព្ជាក់ថា ឥឡូវមន្រី្ត សមត្ថកិច្ច កំពុងតែប្រទូសរាយ គ្នាយ៉ាងខ្លាំង ជាមួយកម្មករ។

ព័ត៌មានលំអិតសូមទំនាក់ទំនងកម្មករ
លោក ណែត មន្រ្តីប្រចាំតំបន់នៃសហជីពសេរីកម្មករ ០១២ ៤៨៣ ៤៨៥
លោក យ៉ាន់ រត្ន័កែវពិសី មន្រ្តីសហជីពសេរីកម្មករ ០១២ ៧២ ៤៤ ៥០

កម្មករ ខុំ ខុន 012 220 125 , កម្មការិនី សុខា ០១២ ៨៧១ ៣១០ , កម្មការិនី មុំ ០៨៨ ៧៥
៩៤៣០៩ និង
កម្មការិនី ស្រីកា ០៩២ ៩៩២៤ ០២

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Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC)
Social Justice is the Foundation of Peace


Address: House No.16A, Street 360, Sangkat Boeung Keng Kang 3,
Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh


Tel/Fax: +855 0 23 216 870
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At Least 30 Demonstrators Detained at City Hall [-Adding injuries to insult?]

Police began pushing, hitting and kicking the demonstrators, eye witnesses and rights workers said after they failed to disperse after the demonstration. (Photo: Heng Reaksmey)

Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh

“I saw police pushing a child, but when I tried to save the child during a clash, police pushed me to the ground and kicked me.”

At least 30 demonstrators from the embattled Borei Keila neighborhood of Phnom Penh were put onto buses and moved away from City Hall, where they had been protesting a forced eviction.

Police moved the demonstrators to the Prey Speu “rehabilitation center,” in Dangkao district, where they are being held.

The residents of Borei Keila have been embroiled in the latest in a series of violent forced evictions that have led to demonstrations, but this is the first instance where police have detained protestors en masse.

Clash between fed up villagers and cops in Kampong Speu province

(Photo: PPP)

(All remaining photos: DAP-news)

Cambodian garment workers clash with police

Tue Jul 27, 2010
By Prak Chan Thul

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - At least nine female garment workers were injured on Tuesday in clashes with Cambodian riot police who used shields and electric shock batons to try to end a week-long strike over the suspension of a local union official.

More than 100 police, at least 50 in riot gear and carrying assault rifles, tried to force an estimated 3,000 female workers back into their factory, pushing several to the ground and stunning them with batons, a Reuters witness said.

The clashes were the latest setback for an industry that was badly hurt by the global economic slump from 2008 and more recently has been plagued by strikes over low pay and working conditions.

The factory on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh, is owned by a Malaysian firm and produces garments for companies including Gap, Benetton, Adidas and Puma.

Srey Kimheng, a secretary-general of the Free Trade Union (FTU), told Reuters at least nine workers were injured when police with a court order tried to clear roads and force them back to work.

The demonstration was brought to an end, and union leaders were talking to the workers about calling off their action aimed at forcing the company to give the union official his job back.

Local police chief Mok Hong insisted there had been no injuries and told Reuters the operation had gone smoothly.

The sector, Cambodia's number three currency earner behind agriculture and tourism, shed almost 30,000 jobs in 2009 after a drop in sales to the United States and Europe.

Industry data showed the country exported garments, textiles and shoes to the value of $2.3 billion last year, down from $2.9 billion in 2008. More than half go to the United States.

An estimated 300,000 of Cambodia's 13.4 million people work in the garment manufacturing sector and send vital cash to impoverished rural villages where many people live on less than $1 a day.

(Additional reporting by Chor Sokunthea; Editing by Martin Petty)

Vendors Clash With Border Police Over Fee

By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
26 November 2008

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A young boy was injured in a clash between goods porters and border police in Poipet Wednesday morning, during a demonstration over a new private export fee.

More than 100 porters gathered in front of the Poipet border checkpoint Wednesday morning, angered by a new policy that forces them to pay 150 riel per kilogram to a private company in order to pull their goods to Thailand for sale.

Porters said the fee, which was instituted Monday and is enforced by state border police, was unfair, especially because they already have export licenses from the government.

Pheak Vutha, 14, said he was kicked by a border policeman during the heated demonstration after encouraging other porters to bypass the police and cross the border.

“When I joined the demonstration with my mom, I shouted, ‘Here, we should go! We should go!’” he told VOA Khmer by phone Wednesday. “And when the border police heard that, they were angry with me and took me to the border police post, and [the policeman] kicked me two times with his boots. Now I’m hurt on my head and my body, and I appeal for the Cambodian government to withdraw [the policeman] who kicked me.”

The new fee is being charged by Chhouk Lon Enterprise Export Import, whose owner, Lim Tang Por, said Wednesday he had a license from a former Bantey Meanchey provincial governor.

He denied porters’ claims was a relative of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Land-grabbing victims: "Please [PM Hun Sen] hear our plight; we are belittled. The tractors cleared the land and no one can protest"

Land Dispute Erupts in Violence

Suon Kanika, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
27/06/2007

Villagers from Svay Rieng province upset with land grabs in their area clashed with police Monday, leaving five injured.

Police beat protestors with electric and standard batons, residents said.

Land grabs are an increasing problem in Cambodia and a major source of destabilization.

Over 200 families in this dispute face the loss of farmland.

Pen Sareoun, a Daung commune villager, said she was beaten with other family members.

"All of us have swollen arms," she said. "There are over 200 families in Trapeang Lepeak Thlok Priing with land right since 1979, growing corns, beans, sesame, potatoes, and cashew trees. Now the land has been cleared."

"Please Prime Minister Hun Sen and other officials in charge, help us people who are victims," she continued. "Please hear our plight; we are belittled. The tractors cleared the land and no one can protest."