Rubber Firm Clears Kreung Land, Sparking Latest Complaint

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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