Villagers File Complaint Against Vietnamese Rubber Firm
Twelve ethnic Tampuon families living in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district yesterday filed a complaint with the provincial land management department, accusing the owners of a Vietnamese rubber plantation of clearing their farmland, local official said. Tun Vantham, chief of Samuth Loeu village in Seda commune, said that since January 18, employees of the Kao Su Ea Lev BM Yoy Stock company have cleared more than 10 hectares of farmland belonging to 12 of the indigenous families, all of whom live outside the company’s 8,400-hectare, government-awarded economic land concession. …
