Two Held For Razing Huts In Land Dispute

15 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
Cassava / cassava plantation / CRC Company / CRD Chief of Staff Ngvieng Hong Fou / CRD company / CRD rubber company / Deputy District Police Chief Phan Chanthon / destruction / Disputed Land / evictions / forced eviction / Global Witness / HAGL / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) / Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri / land disputes / luxury timber / Meas Pov Bora / Ngvieng Hong Fou / O'Chum district / Phan Chanthon / Plantation Destructions / Provincial Minor Crimes Office / Provincial Minor Crimes Office Chief / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Rubber plantation / rubber trees / timber / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Vietnamese rubber company / Vietnamese Rubber Group / villagers / Watchdog Group

Ratanakkiri provincial police on Monday arrested the chief of staff of a Vietnamese rubber concessionaire and his Cambodian translator who are believed to have burned down more than $5,000 worth of property related to a land dispute in O’Chum district, police said.

Meas Pov Bora, chief of the provincial minor crimes office, said that Vietnamese national Ngvieng Hong Fou, 30, chief of staff for a company called CRD, and his translator Sim Borin, 31, were arrested for allegedly setting fire to one house and four huts, and destroying some 200 bunches of cassava plants – alone worth $5,650 – belonging to local landowner Ly Sok Ngim. …

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