Japanesee NGO Admonishes Forced Evictions
A okyo-based human rights group has called on the government to cease forced evictions and branded the use of armed forces against ordinary citizens defending their land as an :unforgivable human rights violation.” Human Rights Now (HRN), which in June sent a team of Japanese investigators to Cambodia to interview people affected by economic land concessions, released the results of its mission yesterday. HRN said the government’s granting of economic land concessions to private companies had come at the expense of communities across the country, many of whom are forced off their land or locked in long-running disputes with the leasing firms. …
