Evictees reject latest offer from UK sugar firm

10 June 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil and commercial litigation / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Labor / Land / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development
England / Khon Kaen Sugar / Tate & Lyle / UK

Representatives for the 200 Cambodian families suing U.K. sugar firm Tate & Lyle for allegedly profiting off of their stolen land say they have rejected the firm’s latest offer to settle the dispute and are looking forward to their first court date, set for October. The families are among the more than 400 who accuse a pair of majority-Thai-owned sugar plantations in Koh Kong province of illegally seizing their farms starting in 2006. They sued Tate & Lyle in a London court in March 2013, arguing that the U.K. firm owed them compensation for profiting off the millions of dollars worth of sugar it has bought from the Thai owner, Khon Kaen Sugar. Efforts to reach an out-of-court deal have continued after talks appeared to founder in July. …

 Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evictees-reject-latest-settlement-offer-from-uk-sugar-firm-60869/