Autralia News Network
Updated
In the Cambodian province of Kampong Speu, west of the capital Phnom Penh, villagers say they will continue to fight against their eviction from farmland, after a week in which seven people were seriously injured in violent clashes with police.
A 2009 Supreme Court ruling awarded 65 hectares of land in the province to a Taiwanese businessmen.
Last week, 300 police were sent to Kampong Speu to enforce that ruling.
Cambodian rights groups are outraged, saying the land was sold illegally and its sale deprives around 90 families of subsistence farming.
Presenter: Liam Cochrane
Speaker: Phung Chhiev Kek, President of the Cambodian human rights group LICADHO
- Listen:
- Windows Media
3 comments:
Villager who commited crimes must brought to justice...The police and authority just doing their jobs...Villager who hit the polce must be prosecuted..
Hey..1:46 AM, villagers were also just doing their jobs of protecting their farmland from a hired private security guards called themselves " police". Who the hell are you anyway to say the villagers are commited crime? Stupid ass.
Police are doing their jobs, but most of the time they were the ones who instigated the violence by beating up villagers and protesters. In this case, the villagers are just trying to protect their land from being confiscated by corrupt officials and corrupt businessmen when the police tried to beat them up. They got fed up, that's why they fought back.
Post a Comment