Footage shows chaos, panic during shooting

26 January 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
bulldozers / cassava farms / Disputed Land / economic land concession / Farmland / land clearing / Land dispute / land tenure / LICADHO / rubber / Snuol / TTY rubber company

Dramatic new video footage of the January 18 Kratie province land dispute shooting has been released on the internet, depicting TTY rubber company security guards opening fire on a crowd of unarmed villagers. The 48-second video, recorded by a villager on a mobile phone and uploaded on Saturday by rights group Licadho on the website YouTube, shows several hundred villagers in Snuol district approaching TTY’s bulldozers to demand that workers stop clearing their cassava farms. The grainy and shaky footage shows a group of villagers backing away and shouting in panic as a guard, who is standing atop a bulldozer’s steering cabin with another guard, aims an AK-47 assault rifle at the crowd below and opens fire…