‘It’s better to work for a Khmer boss than a Chinese boss.’

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‘It’s better to work for a Khmer boss than a Chinese boss.’

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Is it better to work for a Cambodian or a Chinese boss ? Khmer workers were complaining about working on Chinese plantations back in 2015. [Blog post]

Pursat Cassava Plantation Workers: ‘It’s better to work for a Khmer boss than a Chinese boss.’
March 5, 2015, 8:57 am
For many years, Sum Phy, 39, has hailed from her home village in Prey Veng province with her three children to look for work in different provinces. She and her 16-year-old daughter would be hired as daily laborers to harvest rice or work on plantations owned by local Cambodians. As work became scarcer in the nearby provinces, she moved further to another province.

Eventually, she ended up in Ksarch La’eth, a remote village in Ansar Chambok commune, Pursat province’s Krakor district, two years ago. In this northwestern corner of Cambodia, a cassava plantation stretches westwards as far as the eyes can see on a once dense forest to the foot of the mountain. Therefore, Sum Phy and other fellow workers can find plenty of work to do – though they are less pleased to do.

For one reason, the supervisors of the plantations are not Cambodian. They are Chinese bosses belonging to a company from China. The Chinese company has a joint venture with Pheapimex Co.Ltd., owned by CPP Senator Lau Meng Khin, which in 2000 was granted two 70-year Economic Land Concession covering 310,000 hectares in Kompong Chhang and Pursat provinces for growing acacia and eucalyptus trees for pulp and a modern paper mill.

After razing all the forests, they decided to turn the land into cassava plantations instead and have hired hundreds of workers across Cambodia to work for them in slave-like conditions.

“They hit the bell at 5.30 in the morning to gather the workers,” Sum Phy laments. “We cannot eat breakfast on time. The work is painstakingly hard, but we have no choice.”

Under the burning sun, Sum Phy and a dozen other female workers are cutting cassava trees and tie them into bunches for replanting. Sum Phy says each worker is required to collect 100 bunches with 20 cassava trees each per day. Their clothes are soaked with sweat and their exhausted faces darkened by the sun after day-long work that hardly has any rest.

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