Adhoc Workers Say They Were Targeted by Driver

A provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc claimed Thursday that a representative of a company the group was investigating attempted to crash his car into him and two of his colleagues in Mondolkiri province. Sok Ratha said he had received a complaint in December about a company called Villa Development clearing land in Sen Monorom district, and he and two of his colleagues, Bun Chantha and Lea Kao, had traveled by motorcycle Wednesday with nine other local community leaders to investigate the clearing of the villagers’ land. When they reached the site, they were not stopped and entered through an open gate, Mr. Ratha said, but about 200 meters inside the gate, a car traveling at high speed came toward them and attempted to run them off the road. Mr. Ratha said the community leaders were able to identify the driver as a worker for Villa Development. …

Eang Mengleng
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