Are these the ones who are accused of fomenting secession by the Hun Xen's regime?

Villagers arrested for protecting their land and houses are accused of secession by the tyrannical Hun Xen's regime (Photo: ADHOC)

Vietnam arrests 20 over land eviction: reports

Farmers hold protest signs as they stage a protest over land lost outside the National Assembly office in downtown Hanoi in February 2012. Vietnam arrested 20 people after heavily-armed riot police used tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of angry farmers, reports said on Wednesday, in the culmination of a six-year land dispute

04/25/2012
AFP News

Vietnam arrested 20 people after heavily-armed riot police used tear gas to break up a protest by hundreds of angry farmers, reports said on Wednesday, in the culmination of a six-year land dispute.

Around 700 farmers clashed with police and plain-clothed security officers on Tuesday to end the demonstration over the confiscation of land for a planned satellite city in Hung Yen province on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi.

The official Tuoi Tre newspaper said that after a "minor clash" during the eviction, police arrested 20 people who were now under investigation for preventing public officials carrying out their duties.

Officials used two tear gas grenades to break up a crowd of farmers who were trying to prevent bulldozers from accessing the site, which is some 25 kilometres (15 miles) southeast of Hanoi, the VNExpress reported.

‘Slashed’ military police to sue protesters

Wednesday, 25 April 2012 May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post

Military police injured by protesters wielding cassava knives during a stand-off in Kratie province last week planned to take those protesters to court, police representatives said yesterday.

Provincial deputy military police chief Mao Rainny, who was one of six officers injured in the protest, told the Post the officers had met and agreed to file the complaint soon.

“We already know [the villagers’] identities, so we will file a complaint against them for intentional injury,” Mao Rainny said.

More than 300 villagers from Pi Thnou commune, in Snuol district, blocked National Road 76A last week in a bid to seek a resolution to a 15-month land dispute with the Sovann Vuthy company there.

Take action to joint monitoring now and tomorrow

Urgent:

Today (28 Dec 2011 from 2.00PM) the Local authority of Chak Angre Leu and Mean Chey District are going to demolish the resident households in Chak Angre Leur Commune.

More information please contact: 012 277 120

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Tomorrow (29 Dec 2011 from 8.00AM): the Boeung Kak Lake resident formers are going to gathering in front of the Prime Minister House (independent monument)

The aim of the protest is to ask intervention from the Prime Minister to add more money for them, as they facing livelihood after they evicted from their existing land.

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Omlaing villagers protest against land issues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RrewYXs_Mg

Ven. Loun Sovtah refused to leave the location of the Borei Keila protest

តេជគុណ លូនសូវ៉ាតះ សុំមើលផង! សុំមើលផង!

ហូជីម៉ុងះ មិនឲ្យមើលទេ! មិនឲ្យមើលទេ! ជារឿងថៅកែរបស់អាន់ អ្ហែងចេះសាអី?

Ven. Loun Sovath (R): Can I look? Can I look?

Hochimonk (L): No! No! This is my boss' issue, what do you know?

ក្រុមប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ បុរីកីឡា ដុតកង់ឡានមុខ សាលាខណ្ឌ ទាមទារសិទ្ធិ ស្នាក់នៅអគារ ពីក្រុមហ៊ុន ផានអ៊ីម៉ិច


Thursday, 17 November 2011
ដោយៈ ជួន សុជាតិ​​
DAP-news

Synopsis: 40 to 50 residents of Borei Keila protested by burning tires in front of the 07 Makara district office to demand that the Phanimex company provides them their housing which they were promised. During the protest, Ven. Loun Sovath was seen reporting the event and filming the protest. The Phnom Penh city Hochimonk chief was immediately called in to ask Ven. Loun Sovath to leave the premises. However, Ven. Loun Sovath refused to comply. At this point the street in front of the Bak Touk high school is blocked and traffic is heavily jammed.

ភ្នំពេញៈ ក្រុមប្រជាពលរដ្ឋដែលរស់នៅក្នុងបុរីកីឡា ប្រមាណជាង៤០ ទៅ៥០នាក់ តំណាងឲ្យ៩២ គ្រួសារ បាននាំគ្នាធ្វើការតវ៉ា ដោយការដុតកង់ឡាន នៅខាង មុខសាលាខណ្ឌ៧មករា ក្នុងបំណងទាមទារឲ្យក្រុមហ៊ុនផានអ៊ីម៉ិច ប្រគល់ផ្ទះនៅលើអគារដែលទើបនឹងសាងសង់ហើយ។

ការតវ៉ាទាមទារនេះគឺធ្វើឡើងនៅព្រឹកថ្ងៃទី១៧ ខែវិច្ឆិកា ដោយការដុតកង់ឡាន ដោយអហិង្សា ក្នុងបំណងមិនសុខចិត្ត ដែលពួកគាត់បានអះអាងថា នេះជាចេតនា ទុច្ចរិត របស់ក្រុមហ៊ុនផានអ៊ីម៉ិច ជាមួយនិងក្រុមសហគមន៍បុរីកីឡា ឃុបឃិតគ្នាមិនឲ្យប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ៩២ គ្រួសារមានសិទ្ធិរស់នៅលើអគារ ដែលបានសាងសង់ ហើយ នេះ។ ក្នុងការទាមទារនោះដែរក្រុមប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ បានស្នើឲ្យក្រុមហ៊ុន គោរពលក្ខន្តិកៈ ដែលបានសន្យាឲ្យពួកគាត់ បានឡើងទៅអាគារថ្មីដែលក្រុមហ៊ុនបាន សាងសង់រួចហើយនោះ ។

Rubber plantation protest in fourth day

Tuesday, 26 July 2011
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post

Villagers in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district declined a meeting yesterday with local authorities out of fear for their arrest yesterday, instead choosing to extend their protest over a rubber plantation into a fourth day.

“All the villagers were afraid that the authorities would arrest their representatives, so I did not allow the other representatives to join the meeting,” community leader Chap Sophat said yesterday.

Hem Sokun, Romeas Hek district deputy governor, said yesterday he had called the community representatives to negotiate a peaceful solution to the issue.

“I wanted both sides to succeed together to avoid a dispute, but if they did not come, how could I settle it?” he said.

Tra Paeng Chhouk Phleoung Chhes Community Protesting

Dear all

Tomorrow (19 July 2011 from 8.00AM) the Tra Paeng Chhouk Fired Community (Phloeung Chhes since 2008) it located in front of Preah Kosamak Hopital or called Pet Lok Sang. the residents will protest in front of Sangkat Toeuk Thlar of Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The purpose of the protest is to ask the local authority why they sprayed the red color on the house wall as house code number without public informed.

Contact: 011 428567, 078570546, 012 433 088

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Villagers’ long march for land rights protest

A group of more than 100 villagers from Kampong Svay district’s Sankoa commune protest outside Kampong Thom provincial court. (Photo by: Photo Supplied)

Tuesday, 07 June 2011
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post

I would meet with [representatives] but if a throng of villagers comes, I will not find a resolution

More than 100 residents from four villages in Kampong Thom province marched around 30 kilometres from their commune to the provincial court and governor’s office yesterday to request the release of a community representative who was arrested in connection with a land dispute, villagers said yesterday.

Ear Sovanna, a resident of Krasainng Khor village in Kampong Svay district’s Sankoa commune, said yesterday that 53-year-old Khean Soeun, of Brasat village, was arrested under a court order from provincial prosecutor Pen Sarath for allegedly cursing staff from private company Doung Heng Sengsuna and destroying private property on May 28.

“The villagers just protected plantation land from being cleared, but the court issued an arrest warrant for [Khean Soeun] to be put in prison,” he said, adding that residents from Krasainng Khor, Brasat, Sleng Khpors and Chey villages had been affected by the dispute.

Siem Reap court holds hearing for representatives of Chikreng land protesters

Report by Hang Savyouth, Radio Free Asia
Video by Uon Chhin and Hang Savyouth

5 representatives of land protesters arrested

Report by Tin Zakariya, Radio Free Asia
Video by Uon Chhin and Tin Zakariya

Land Protesters Released on Bail

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.

Kampong Speu authorities promise to release representatives of land protesters

Report by Keo Nimol, RFA
Video by Uon Chhin

Land Grab Protesters Clash With Police

01 March 2010: Armed cops from Dangkao district following the raid on the land protesters in Prey Sar commune, Dangkao district, Phnom Penh. During the raid, 8 people were arrestes. (Photo: Uon Chhin, RFA)

By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
01 March 2010

Seven women and a teenage boy were briefly detained and three cameras taken from rights workers when protesters clashed with police in a Phnom Penh demonstration Monday morning.

Six of the women and the boy were released late Monday after they promised they would not join future demonstrations.

The remaining protester, Mao Soly, is scheduled to appear in Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday.

Phnom Penh Municipal Police sought to bar a demonstration of more than 100 upset residents in Dangkor district, who say they are victims of a government land grab and were planning to demonstrate in front of the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Dangkor Police Chief Born Sam Ath said Mao Soly had organized an illegal demonstration, which police blocked before it began.

“We have filed our complaints for the last three years, but they have blocked it,” said Nov Meakara, whose mother-in-law was one of the arrested.

“The police beat the hands of the protesters, and it angered the protesters who were trying to go demonstrate in front of Hun Sen’s house,” she said. “And then they arrested villagers, and the focused on [leading] representatives of the villagers.”

Residents say the Ministry of Interior borrowed 18 hectares of their land from them in 1985 on purported government business, but it was never returned.

Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak said the ministry was not aware of the case.

Cameras were taken from rights workers from Adhoc and Licadho, who were documenting the clash. They were later returned.

Villagers Protest Before National Assembly Over Land

By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
26 August 2009

More than 50 villagers from Kampong Speu province gathered in front of the National Assembly in Phnom Penh Wednesday, demanding a solution over a land issue.

Villagers say 25 hectares of land belonging to 61 families in Korng Pisey district were sold by a village chief to a private company.

Land grabs are an ongoing problem in Cambodia that observers warn threaten the stability of the country.

“My purpose here is to appeal to Prime Minister Hun Sen and the national institution to find justice for people,” said Van Yeat, 57, one of the protesters. “We have been trying to file with commune, district and provincial authorities, but they ignore our complaints.”

Ros Vey, the chief of Sala Kros village, was not available for comment. But Hang Sarun, commune chief for Preah Nipean, where the village lies, said the 61 families did not have documentation for their land.

Groups Lodge Massive Land Complaint [-Getting closer to Hun Xen's predicted "farmers' revolution"?]

Protesters in front of Hun Xen's fortress (Photo: DAP news)

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
12 August 2009

More than 300 representatives from 19 provinces urged government agencies and offices to resolve disputes in more than 700,000 hectares of land, complaining their daily existence was threatened by their displacement.

“We are losing land, forests and fisheries that are important sources of our daily livelihoods, because of some private companies and powerful officials,” said Hor Sam Art, a representative of family in Battambang province.

The group, from 29 different communities, filed a joint complaint to the offices of the prime minister, the Council of Ministers, the National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution, and the Ministry of Land Management on Tuesday.

The complaint included 119,218 signatures, from disputes in 164 villages in provinces ranging across the entire country.

“We want the government to know our sufferings, difficulties and needs,” Hor Sam Art said. “We know that we are making difficulty to the government in the complaints. We have made many complaints with local government, but it did not find a resolution.”

The complaints included pictures of land dispute locations and reports of shooting injuries and death, beatings, detention, imprisonment of dissenters and the clearing of houses and crops.

“We request the government to quickly suspend or end the new concession contracts and development projects affecting the livelihoods of the communities, as well as put an end to threats and arrests and release prisoners,” the group said in a joint statement.

“We do not have any intention of disgracing the government, but we have no choice, because in the past we’ve protested and complained again and again, but we have not found a resolution,” said Seng Sok Heng, a representative from Banteay Meanchey province.

Ny Chakya, chief investigator for the right group Licadho, said the group would follow whether the government can find soltuions.

“Providing economic land concessions to private companies in the wrong direction affects people’s family economic development and jeopardizes the government’s poverty reduction plan,” he said.

Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the complaints will be solved “in conformity with the law.”

The government reviews the laws for land property of ethnic minorities, he said, and if it finds companies breaking the law, it ends the contract with the company.

“Now we’ve ordered the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction and the concerned provincial authorities to investigates the complaints of the communities,” he said.

Kratie Villagers Protest Land Destruction

By Mean Veasna, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
02 September 2008

About 300 ethnic minority villagers wielding axes and knives gathered in protest at the Kratie province village Tuesday, angered over the start of land clearance by a private company.

No violence was reported from the demonstration, in Kbal Damrei commune, which is home to mostly Phnong and Mil minority villagers. The 300 protesters were representing about 700 familes.

"Since this weekend, two bulldozers and one tractor of the company have come and cleared our land, where we plant rice and other vegetables, and where our ancestors are buried," said villager Suon Ouk, who joined the demonstration. "They came and cleared without asking permission."

Provincial authorities say the Sun Puy Ty import-export company has plans to cultivate rubber trees on the land, but villagers say between 2,000 and 4,000 hectares of land has been seized by the company where they planned for conservation.

So far, about 10 hectares have been cleared.

The demonstration was quiet by Tuesday afternoon, Uch Sareth, chief of Kbal Damrei commune said. "We promised to resolve the problem for them in five days, and they have calmed down now."

The dispute over the land has been forwarded to provincial authorities, and Kratie Governor Uch Sareth said Tuesday he would send officials to negotiate with the villagers.

"The company has the right to exploit 1,500 hectares," he said. "But they must resolve everything before starting work."

Battambang Marchers Scattered, Waiting

By Win Thida, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
02 June 2008

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The 200 villagers from Battambang province who last week began a march on the capital have broken up and are now waiting for a resolution to a land dispute from the government.

Only a handful remains in the capital, to meet with officials, and most of the others have returned home, villagers said.

Investigators for the rights group Adhoc said Monday the villagers are prepared to renew their march if no resolution is found.

Last week, nearly 200 people marched from Battambang as far as Pursat province before a government invitation for talks halted them.

Villager wows not to vote for the ruling CPP if his land dispute problem is not solved

Despite Elections, Land Issues Continue

By Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
01 June 2008

More than 1,000 people have recently come to the residence of Prime Minister Hun Sen, seeking redress for land issues that a rights investigator said are increasing even as the general election draws near.

Higher prices for land have led to the increase, said Licadho investigator Am Sam Arth, and not even the upcoming election has had an impact.

That has been frustrating for many villagers, but also for the groups who worked to make the 2004 land law.

Mony Soeung, a villager from Battambang province’s Bavil district, said local authorities conspired to take 165 hectares of land from 38 families three months ago. He came as part of the 1,000 families to ask Hun Sen for help.

Rithy Meas, a villager who was part of a group of 1,000 families that lost land in Kampot province, said he won’t vote for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party if the problem isn’t solved.

Marchers Get Promises of Help in Land Dispute

By Vong Dara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
01 June 2008

After walking for three days from their village in Battambang province, marchers on the way to Phnom Penh on Tuesday were promised talks with the government over a land dispute.

The marchers, numbering nearly 200, had reached Krakor town, in Pursat Province.

Bovel village representative Sao Mony said the marchers would meet with officials from the Ministry of Interior Wednesday to find a solution “in accordance with our goals.”

“If not, we will continue on to Phnom Penh,” he said. “Tomorrow we will send four people to join in the solution.”

The marchers say they have lost at least 100 hectares of land in sales in 1999 and 2005.

Sieng Sothorng, Battambang’s deputy governor, who brokered the proposed resolution, said a solution was like “bargaining,” and if a resolution was not found at first, “we will try again.”

Adhoc rights worker Phuong Sothea expressed doubt, saying the proposed solution could be a means to preventing the marchers from reaching the capital.