Cambodian tribunal visits place of Khmer Rouge uprising
August 29, 2011
ABC Radio Australia
ABC Radio Australia
The Cambodian Khmer Rouge tribunal has been visiting the western district of Samlaut to tell people there about the court's work.
Samlaut has significant historical resonance as it was here in 1967 that the Khmer Rouge uprising began.
The visit coincides with the court's admission that the long-awaited genocide trial of the movement's senior leaders would likely not begin until 2012.
Presenter: Robert Carmichael
Speaker: Lars Olsen, tribunal spokesman; Anne Heindel, legal adviser at the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam); Pay Lim, Samlaut resident
CARMICHAEL: (sfx) There are few places in Cambodia that have such strong links to the Khmer Rouge as Samlaut district which lies in the west near the Thai border.
It was among these hills that a 1967 uprising marked the start of the Khmer Rouge's efforts to take over Cambodia.
Samlaut was also one of the last Khmer Rouge strongholds to fall to the government as the ultra-Maoist movement finally crumbled in the late 1990s.
The voice you can hear is Samlaut resident Pay Lim giving his opinion on how many people the court should prosecute.
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Hun Xen threatens land concession owners with concession cancellation if they don’t resolve land problems with affected villagers
29 August 2011
By Silapol
Free Press Magazine
Translated from Khmer by Soch
Once again, Hun Xen issued a warning to all companies that receive land concession rights from the government for development, telling them that they have to resolve all incidents with affected villagers in regards to their concessions, otherwise, these companies will see their concessions rescinded.
Hun Xen’s statement which was adopted during the meeting of the Council of Ministers last Friday claimed that: “Samdach Hun Xen advises the ministry of Agriculture, the ministry of Environment and the ministry of Land Management, Unban Planning and Construction to visit and resolve problems along the various economic concessions where disputes are taking place, and they must set up agreements between the people and the investors who provide income to agriculture.” It added that Hun Xen threatened to cancel economic land concessions to investors who do not resolve problems for the villagers who have settled in these regions for a long time already.
This is an immediate reply that was issued in regards to the land-grabbing of villagers by the Hun Xen regime. Such land-grabbing led the villagers to stop supporting the regime and caused uprise to protest against such action, just like the case in Uddong district, Kampong Speu province at the end of June 2011. In that protest, villagers used knives, axes and slingshots to chase the authority agents who came to evict them from their lands for the sake of the companies. Furthermore, donor countries and the World Bank have also issued strong criticisms [on this case], and the election is also fast approaching.
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