Ethnic villagers fight lake fill-in

5 March 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rivers and lakes / Rubber / Social development / Water resources
Bakeo / Bakeo district / Chhay Thi / economic land concession / Jarai families / Kao Su Ea Lev BM Yoy Stock / Phat Phoeun / provincial fishery administration / provincial Forestry Administration deputy chief / provincial monitor Chhay Thi / Ratanakkiri / rights group Adhoc / Rochom Ven / Soeung commune / Vietnamese rubber company / Yasom / Yasom village chief

One hundred and thirteen Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s Bakeo district are sending a letter of protest to the provincial fishery administration today, after a Vietnamese rubber company started filling in a lake that they had promised last month to preserve for villagers. Rochom Ven, chief of the Yasom village in the Soeung commune, said the company, Kao Su Ea Lev BM Yoy Stock, resumed filling in the 50-metre-by-300-metre lake with plants and bamboo late last month. Earlier that month, the Jarai villagers had complained to rights group Adhoc when the rubber company first started clearing land near the lake. …

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