Soldiers shoot villagers over land protest

Violence erupted yesterday in Kratie province’s Snuol district where six people were shot and injured when RCAF soldiers working for a rubber company opened fire on a crowd of villagers who were trying to stop the company from clearing land in the area, police and human rights workers said… Kratie Provincial Governor Kham Phoeun declined to comment on the shooting, while Snuol’s district governor, Iv Saphum, had little to say, but explained that TTY Co Ltd had been granted an 8,000-hectare rubber concession in 2008 in Pi Thnou commune…