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COMFREL Release the Result of Workshop on Voter's Voice in Remote Areas; Koh Preah, Chong Siembok, Stung Treng province

Dear all,

COMFREL is please to release its press release on the result of workshop on voter's voice in remote areas; Koh Preah commune, Chong Siembok district, Stung Treng province was held on August 21, 2011.

Please see the attached document for details.

FYI : If you need releases or articles related to workshop on voter's voices, elections reforms, democracy/political reforms, decentralisation and governance, please feel free to visit our website :

www.comfrel.org

Best regards,

COMFREL


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More rallies against rubber

Police threaten villagers from Kampong Speu province during a protest outside the provincial court in March of 2010. Over 2,000 families were affected by a land concession granted to CPP senator Ly Yong Phat in Omlaing commune, in Kampong Speu province’s Thpong district. (Photo by: Will Baxter)

Monday, 29 August 2011
Khouth Sophakchakrya
The Phnom Penh Post

More than 300 villagers from Kampong Cham province’s Chamkar Leu, Memot, and Stung Trang districts gathered in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest against a plan to relocate them from their land in order to make way for rubber plantations.

The villagers contend they have lived on the land in question since 1979.

They urged Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene on their behalf against three companies allegedly behind the plan.

One of the companies has been identified as tycoon An Marady’s Chamkar Leu Rubber Plantation. The other two are said to be tycoon Long Sreng’s Memot and Stung Trang rubber plantations.