Mr. Sok Sambath, hands on hip, after the tussle with the journalist.By Khmerization
A local journalist has been pushed in the chest by Mr. Sok Sambath, Governor of Daun Penh district, while he was interviewing one of protesters who came to protest in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen's house on 6th December to ask him to intervene after a Vietnamese company named Tan Bien seized their lands in Kampong Thom province, reports Khmer Sthapana News.
Mr. Sok Sambath was trying to prevent journalists from talking to the protesters. The pushing had caused heated verbal exchanges between Mr. Sok Sambath and the journalist who said, as a journalist, he had a duty to report the news and the truth.
Villagers from Kampong Thom said the land disputes had occurred since 2004 and authority promised to resolve the issue for them, but until now the issue had not been resolved.
Mrs. Sy Nath, an invalid who is one of the 50 protesters representing 1750 families whose lands at Bateay Svay village, Taya comme in Santhuok district of Kampong Thom province had been seized by the Vietnamese company said her and her husband had become disabled because they served the nation during the wars. She complained that the government didn't help them, but instead had given their lands to the Vietnamese company, as part of an 8100 hectares concession given to Tan Bien company, to develop a rubber plantation.
A local journalist has been pushed in the chest by Mr. Sok Sambath, Governor of Daun Penh district, while he was interviewing one of protesters who came to protest in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen's house on 6th December to ask him to intervene after a Vietnamese company named Tan Bien seized their lands in Kampong Thom province, reports Khmer Sthapana News.
Mr. Sok Sambath was trying to prevent journalists from talking to the protesters. The pushing had caused heated verbal exchanges between Mr. Sok Sambath and the journalist who said, as a journalist, he had a duty to report the news and the truth.
Villagers from Kampong Thom said the land disputes had occurred since 2004 and authority promised to resolve the issue for them, but until now the issue had not been resolved.
Mrs. Sy Nath, an invalid who is one of the 50 protesters representing 1750 families whose lands at Bateay Svay village, Taya comme in Santhuok district of Kampong Thom province had been seized by the Vietnamese company said her and her husband had become disabled because they served the nation during the wars. She complained that the government didn't help them, but instead had given their lands to the Vietnamese company, as part of an 8100 hectares concession given to Tan Bien company, to develop a rubber plantation.
2 comments:
This guy, governor, look like youn! He needed to be replaced. He's not going to help khmer people. This is khmer killing khmer. Where is ah kwack to help khmer people?
Just look at this picture. he looks like a gangster. This is how officials in Cambodia nowadays behave- like they own Cambodia.
In the West, government officials behave very carefully in front of journalists because journalists can expose their scandals. But in Cambodia, officials bully and arrest journalists just for doing their jobs- reporting.
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