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Cambodian prime minister orders suspension of new land concessionsfor private companies by 123wert sdfsf
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Cambodian prime minister orders suspension of new land concessionsfor private companies by 123WERT SDFSF
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Cambodian prime minister orders suspension of new land concessionsfor private companies |
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday temporarily suspendednew land concessions to private companies in an effort to easepolitical pressure over an issue that has triggered social unrestand occasional violence. The timing of Hun Sen's action seemed to reflect his usualpolitical astuteness, coming less than two weeks after the slayingof a prominent local environmentalist investigating illegal loggingturned the spotlight on shady practices involving government land.The April 26 shooting death of Chut Wutty by a military policemannear where a Chinese company is building a hydropower project drewworldwide condemnation. Monday's directive also came during a visit of a special UnitedNations envoy on human rights, Surya P. Subedi, who stated that heplans during his weeklong mission to examine the situation of landconcessions and "their impact on the human rights of localcommunities." Land concessions have been the focus of allegations ofland-grabbing by big businessmen tied to corrupt officials andtriggered violent clashes when residents were forcefully evicted. The directive said its purpose was to strengthen the effectivenessof land management and that concessions will be revoked fromlicensed companies that fail to honor their agreements, such as byillegal logging or reselling the land.
It did not say how long thesuspension would last. Such concessions typically involve clearing forest land forplantations to grow cash crops such as rubber, cassava, oil palmand sugar cane. The Cambodian human rights organization Adhoc reported in March inits annual report that more than 2 million hectares (4.9 millionacres) of land, mostly forest, had been granted by the governmentto 225 companies, foreign and domestic. Up-to-date figures were notavailable from the government. Adhoc's report said that the concession land issue was at thecenter of chronic land disputes.
In one such case in January this year in Kratie province, privateguards shot and wounded at least four people in a group of about100 villagers who were trying to stop bulldozers from destroyingtheir cassava plantation. Ny Chariya, the chief investigator for Adhoc, said Monday hewelcomed Hun Sen's directive as a means of reducing the number ofland disputes, but was unsure whether it would be fullyimplemented. He said thousands of families had been affected by such landdisputes, and as many as 200 displaced people faced legal actionfor their resistance. I am Home & Garden writer, reports some information about decorative push pins , decorative push pin.
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