Rubber Firm Clears Kreung Land, Sparking Latest Complaint

28 February 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development
Adhoc / agro-business firms / agro-industry farms / ancestral land / Andong Meas district / Bakeo / CRD rubber company / economic land concession / ELC / ethnic Kreung families / ethnic Tampuon families / Farmland / ILO / Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention / Indigenous families / International Labor Organization / Kaim village / La'ak commune / Lumphat district / Ministry of Agriculture / O'Chum district / private land titles / provincial forestry and land management officials / Ratanakkiri Province / Rights group / Rubber plantation / Vietnamese rubber company

Representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Kreung families living in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Tuesday filed a complaint with local rights group Adhoc, accusing a Vietnamese rubber company of clearing their ancestral land, local officials and a rights worker said. Chhay Thy, provincial investigator for Adhoc, said that since late last year, employees of the CRD rubber company have bulldozed the boundaries of a 700-hectare area the firm intends to turn into a rubber plantation. The destruction has spread to the property of 31 ethnic minority families living in La’ak commune’s Kaim village. … According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2011 CRD was granted a 7,591-hectare concession that cuts through the province’s O’Chum, Bakeo and Andong Meas districts. …

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