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District governor Dork Sar urged the company to compensate the villagers by paying for a traditional
ceremony to appease their ancestors.
“This is illegal clearing and violates the traditions of the Jarai people,” Mr. Sar said. “We need the
company to pay for a ceremony, because people here believe that the ghosts will break their necks or
cause them to live without peace.”
Indigenous rights groups have joined Adhoc in asking the government to cancel Day Dong Yoeun’s
concession and begin criminal proceedings against its owners.
“If the company doesn’t respect the relevant laws or sub-decrees, or agreement of the land concession,
the government has the right to cancel,” said Sal Vansay, director of the Indigenous Communities
Support Organization.
Thun Sarath, spokesman for the Forestry Administration, said that the destruction of forested land is
illegal in all cases.
“If the company felled trees to make money…it is completely wrong because they destroyed state
property,” he said.
He added that if the Forestry Administration finds sufficient evidence that Day Dong Yoeun has
broken the law, provincial authorities should request that Prime Minister Hun Sen convene a meeting
of the Council of Ministers to discuss canceling the company’s concession.
Posted by Socheata at 2:27 PM 10/01/2013
Jail term reduction for trespassing Pad Thais ...
long jail term for innocent Khmers
File photo : Veera and Ratree
Jail term reduction, amnesty for Thai activists in
Khmer jail : Yingluck
January 10, 2013 - The Nation
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on
Thursday confirmed that Cambodia has reduced the prison terms of one of the
two Thai activists jailed on espionage charges and granted amnesty to the
other.
Yellow-shirt activist Veera Somkwamkid was sentenced to eight years in prison and Ratree
Pipattanapaiboon to six years after being arrested along with other Thais on December 2011. The other
were freed after a Cambodian court suspended their jail terms.
Yingluck said the Cambodian government has informed the Thai foreign ministry that yellowshirt
activist Veera Somkwamkid's prison term would be reduced by six months as the first step. When the
time comes, Cambodia would be asked to free him, she added.
For Ratree Pipattanapaiboon, amnesty was granted so she would be freed, she said.
The amnesty and the reduction followed a meeting between Yingluck and Hun Sen.
"On behalf of the Thai government, we would like to thank Cambodia for taking care of the cases and
granting the amnesty for the benefits of the bilateral relations," she said.
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