Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:26 pm
Can't find much more info yet but from my understanding, locals down in Otres we're getting their land bulldozed by some Oknha and their tired of it....
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Otres vs. Oknha
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Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:40 pm
Must be a very poor Oknha or he would have paid the military to hang around there.
Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:45 pm
2 shot, 4 arrested
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Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:07 am
Preah Sihanouk province - (Additional news) Sihanoukville, on the 24th of January 2019, the deputy governor of Sihanouk province, Pai Bunchvann ordered the implementation of the decision of the provincial administration of the Supreme Court Chamber's 21st November, 2017, on the 71-hectare land dispute in Koki village, Batthaing commune, Prey Nup district, Preah Sihanouk province.
It is stated that during the execution of the verdict, there was a confrontation between the competent forces with the people claiming to own the land in the area, but who had lost their case in court.
Four of the protesters were arrested and temporarily detained by the provincial police commissioner for allegedly using violence to prevent police from carrying out their duties. Tires were burnt, and molotov cocktails and stones were thrown at police, but there were no reports of serious injury. According to Pha Banh Vannak, in the case of theses four citizens, the authorities did not plan to send a conviction to the court if there was no serious offense, only for provisional detention and questioning.
The final report by 8 pm on the same day, the authorities took full control of the land under which the verdict was executed, but the additional order and continued action was made on the morning of January 25, 2018 (as confirmed by Phay Bun Vannak on behalf of Sihanouk administration). However, it has not been possible to find a response from the authorities on those people who were detained by 8 pm on January 24, 2019.
Source Huy Bunleng
CEO News - There is no mention of shootings in this report, but elsewhere on social media it has been said that two people were sent to hospital after being shot by the authorities.CEO is still waiting for confirmation.
Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:15 am
Six people detained and two shot.
January 25, 2019
Six protesters held after police clash
Six people were detained yesterday following a clash between protesters, who blocked a road, and police in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nop district.
The protesters were trying to block officials from measuring land belonging to a tycoon following a Supreme Court decision favouring him in a land dispute case.
Dozens of residents in Bit Traing commune’s Koki village burned tyres and blocked the road while dozens of police officers with guns, shields, heavy machinery and fire trucks went to implement the court decision and measure the land for the tycoon known by the villagers as Siv Kong Triv.
Cheap Sotheary, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, yesterday said that during the protest police used fire trucks to douse the flames and when they attempted to enter the area, people threw stones and bottles filled with petrol, sparking the clash.
Ms Sotheary said police responded by firing shots, which injured two people, detaining six people.
“First, the protesters and the authorities stood facing each other in a stand-off and when the authorities walked towards the land’s location, people started throwing stones and the petrol bottles,” she said. “When the police officers tried to implement the court verdict, the residents argued with them saying they have lived there for several years.”
A 39-year-old resident, who asked not to be named, said that dozens of families had cleared the forest to live in the area since 2002 and that he bought some land from others in 2005 but has not received a title yet.
“The residents have lived here since 2002 and they built houses, raised animals and planted crops, but the wife of Mr Kong Triv claimed that the land belong to them,” he said. “If they have the land title, they should meet the people to solve the problem but the police came in force with machines to measure the land and fired on people instead.”
Mr Kong Triv could not be reached for comment yesterday.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50572346/s ... ice-clash/
January 25, 2019
Six protesters held after police clash
Six people were detained yesterday following a clash between protesters, who blocked a road, and police in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nop district.
The protesters were trying to block officials from measuring land belonging to a tycoon following a Supreme Court decision favouring him in a land dispute case.
Dozens of residents in Bit Traing commune’s Koki village burned tyres and blocked the road while dozens of police officers with guns, shields, heavy machinery and fire trucks went to implement the court decision and measure the land for the tycoon known by the villagers as Siv Kong Triv.
Cheap Sotheary, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, yesterday said that during the protest police used fire trucks to douse the flames and when they attempted to enter the area, people threw stones and bottles filled with petrol, sparking the clash.
Ms Sotheary said police responded by firing shots, which injured two people, detaining six people.
“First, the protesters and the authorities stood facing each other in a stand-off and when the authorities walked towards the land’s location, people started throwing stones and the petrol bottles,” she said. “When the police officers tried to implement the court verdict, the residents argued with them saying they have lived there for several years.”
A 39-year-old resident, who asked not to be named, said that dozens of families had cleared the forest to live in the area since 2002 and that he bought some land from others in 2005 but has not received a title yet.
“The residents have lived here since 2002 and they built houses, raised animals and planted crops, but the wife of Mr Kong Triv claimed that the land belong to them,” he said. “If they have the land title, they should meet the people to solve the problem but the police came in force with machines to measure the land and fired on people instead.”
Mr Kong Triv could not be reached for comment yesterday.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50572346/s ... ice-clash/
Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:05 am
Yesterday morning's events on video:
Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:46 am
CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:15 am
. “If they have the land title, they should meet the people to solve the problem but the police came in force with machines to measure the land and fired on people instead.”
The squatters lost their case in court, light fires and expect the owner to rock up with his title to deal with them?
This "I've lived here for several years,so this is my land" don't wash too well.
Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:52 am
Unfortunately the locals always come across as downtrodden and the losers in all this but often they’re simply squatting on “waste land”.
Saying that Otres has had issues with land grabbing in the last few years I hear.
Saying that Otres has had issues with land grabbing in the last few years I hear.
Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 2:41 pm
Six Arrested, One Critically Injured After Police Fire on Land Protest in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Province
2019-01-24
Six villagers were arrested and one was left critically injured Thursday after authorities fired on a protest against the forcible eviction of residents from land in southwest Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province, in the country’s first violent police crackdown since a July election widely seen as unfree and unfair.
Villagers clashed with police armed with assault rifles and shields who tried to evict them using tactics they described as “brutal and unacceptable,” following a Supreme Court decision to grant their land in Sihanoukville’s Prey Nob district as a concession to a wealthy businessman.
One villager, who spoke with RFA’s Khmer Service on condition of anonymity, said police beat residents who gathered early on Thursday morning and erected barricades of burning tires to ward off any attempt to remove them from the land, in protest of the court decision.
She said that after police advanced, they began firing their weapons, and while some villagers tried to fight them off, most eventually fled in fear.
At the end of the clash, six people had been arrested and at least one person was critically injured from a bullet wound to the chest.
“I was at the scene and the shooting was very vicious,” she added.
Another villager named Lim Sareth told RFA she had lived on the land “for many years,” and that villagers clashed with police because they were terrified of losing their property and being left with nowhere to go.
“After the crackdown, the police destroyed our houses and plantations,” she said.
Cheap Sotheary, the Sihanoukville provincial coordinator for local rights group Adhoc, told RFA that she was also present during the crackdown, and said villagers “responded to police force with rocks, Molotov cocktails, and burning car tires.”
After police unsuccessfully attempted to evict the villagers twice, they “began to open fire” around 10:00 a.m. and arrested the six people, she said, adding that “at least two villagers were injured” during the clash—one “seriously.”
“It was like a war zone,” she said. “The police fired many bullets.”
Cheap Sotheary said that villagers were left with “bruises all over their bodies” after being beaten by authorities.
Residents of the site said they had occupied the site since 2002, with several having bought land from other villagers, and were surprised to suddenly learn that it belonged to the businessman.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 55123.html
2019-01-24
Six villagers were arrested and one was left critically injured Thursday after authorities fired on a protest against the forcible eviction of residents from land in southwest Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province, in the country’s first violent police crackdown since a July election widely seen as unfree and unfair.
Villagers clashed with police armed with assault rifles and shields who tried to evict them using tactics they described as “brutal and unacceptable,” following a Supreme Court decision to grant their land in Sihanoukville’s Prey Nob district as a concession to a wealthy businessman.
One villager, who spoke with RFA’s Khmer Service on condition of anonymity, said police beat residents who gathered early on Thursday morning and erected barricades of burning tires to ward off any attempt to remove them from the land, in protest of the court decision.
She said that after police advanced, they began firing their weapons, and while some villagers tried to fight them off, most eventually fled in fear.
At the end of the clash, six people had been arrested and at least one person was critically injured from a bullet wound to the chest.
“I was at the scene and the shooting was very vicious,” she added.
Another villager named Lim Sareth told RFA she had lived on the land “for many years,” and that villagers clashed with police because they were terrified of losing their property and being left with nowhere to go.
“After the crackdown, the police destroyed our houses and plantations,” she said.
Cheap Sotheary, the Sihanoukville provincial coordinator for local rights group Adhoc, told RFA that she was also present during the crackdown, and said villagers “responded to police force with rocks, Molotov cocktails, and burning car tires.”
After police unsuccessfully attempted to evict the villagers twice, they “began to open fire” around 10:00 a.m. and arrested the six people, she said, adding that “at least two villagers were injured” during the clash—one “seriously.”
“It was like a war zone,” she said. “The police fired many bullets.”
Cheap Sotheary said that villagers were left with “bruises all over their bodies” after being beaten by authorities.
Residents of the site said they had occupied the site since 2002, with several having bought land from other villagers, and were surprised to suddenly learn that it belonged to the businessman.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 55123.html
Re: Otres vs. Oknha
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:06 pm
Why should the Chinese invade when they can use local military to shoot the natives and take their land? Conservation of resources and politically expedient.CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Jan 25, 2019 2:41 pm Six Arrested, One Critically Injured After Police Fire on Land Protest in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Province
2019-01-24
Six villagers were arrested and one was left critically injured Thursday after authorities fired on a protest against the forcible eviction of residents from land in southwest Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province, in the country’s first violent police crackdown since a July election widely seen as unfree and unfair.
Villagers clashed with police armed with assault rifles and shields who tried to evict them using tactics they described as “brutal and unacceptable,” following a Supreme Court decision to grant their land in Sihanoukville’s Prey Nob district as a concession to a wealthy businessman.
One villager, who spoke with RFA’s Khmer Service on condition of anonymity, said police beat residents who gathered early on Thursday morning and erected barricades of burning tires to ward off any attempt to remove them from the land, in protest of the court decision.
She said that after police advanced, they began firing their weapons, and while some villagers tried to fight them off, most eventually fled in fear.
At the end of the clash, six people had been arrested and at least one person was critically injured from a bullet wound to the chest.
“I was at the scene and the shooting was very vicious,” she added.
Another villager named Lim Sareth told RFA she had lived on the land “for many years,” and that villagers clashed with police because they were terrified of losing their property and being left with nowhere to go.
“After the crackdown, the police destroyed our houses and plantations,” she said.
Cheap Sotheary, the Sihanoukville provincial coordinator for local rights group Adhoc, told RFA that she was also present during the crackdown, and said villagers “responded to police force with rocks, Molotov cocktails, and burning car tires.”
After police unsuccessfully attempted to evict the villagers twice, they “began to open fire” around 10:00 a.m. and arrested the six people, she said, adding that “at least two villagers were injured” during the clash—one “seriously.”
“It was like a war zone,” she said. “The police fired many bullets.”
Cheap Sotheary said that villagers were left with “bruises all over their bodies” after being beaten by authorities.
Residents of the site said they had occupied the site since 2002, with several having bought land from other villagers, and were surprised to suddenly learn that it belonged to the businessman.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 55123.html