Villagers getting ready for DM Group hearing
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has issued letters to 11 ethnic Tampuon villagers from the province’s Lumphat district, instructing them to prepare for a hearing over accusations of using violence on the property of rubber company DM Group. … DM Group first began setting up rubber plantations in the district in 2005 and have been steadily acquiring land in three communes occupied by indigenous Tampuon villagers. For five years now, villagers have been protesting the concessions, saying the company wrangled over 300 hectares of land from them with unfair compensation. …
