Villagers Protested against Eviction by An Mardy Company in Kampong Cham

On June 9, 2010 about 180 families in village 33, Ta Ol commune, Chamkar Leu district, Kampong Cham province came up to protest against the plan of An Mardy Company to evict them out of the site to resettle in O’Reang Ov district so that the company would be able to use that land for rubber plantation.

As reported by villager representative, prior to the above event, on April 1, 2010 local authority and the company representative went to the area and promised to give them $500 and a plot of land of 10 meters by 20 meters in exchange with the removal out of their place.

However, they refused to leave for they had been living there since 1980. Moreover the location has already consisted of infrastructures; roads, school, referral hospital and others. Therefore they would not move out only to live in the area, where everything needed rebuilding at all.

According to the above source, the residents would file a complaint with provincial authorities in order to intervene in the case and issue legal land titles for them.