Grave sites cleared by rubber firms: NGOs

25 February 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Community forest / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Protected forest / Public land lease / Social development
Adhoc / Chhay Thy / CRD / Heng Brother / Krong Pok Ratanakkiri Rubber Development / Ta Lav commune / Veasna Investment

Four Vietnamese rubber firms are responsible for destroying an estimated 1,000 hectares of community forest, including an indigenous graveyard, in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district, a group of NGOs have claimed. The land dispute involving 196 families living in Talav commune dates back to 2011, Chhay Thy, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, who has been investigating the logging with representatives from three other NGOs, said yesterday. … The Kingdom began parceling land off land in Andong Meas to Heng Brother in 2009, allotting the company 2,361 hectares. …

 Phak Seangly
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