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Cambodian police beat, arrest women and children in land protest
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 21 - 04 - 2011

Awwal 17, 1432 H / April 21, 2011, SPA -- Land rights activists demanded an investigation
after police on Thursday beat and arrested 11 villagers, including
women and two children, who were protesting their imminent evictions
in a land deal in Phnom Penh, according to dpa.
The residents were in a group of 100 villagers who gathered at the
municipality's head office, seeking discussions over their pending
evictions.
Rights workers said the villagers were surrounded by more than 100
armed riot police and military police. At least four women were
knocked unconscious after being hit with electric shock batons, they
said. Two others were injured in beatings, and two boys, 11 and 12,
were among those arrested, they added.
The Housing Rights Task Force, a local non-governmental
organization, said the authorities must stop intimidating residents
of Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak lake area.
"Beating the villagers and ignoring their voices won't make the
problems go away," the organization said in a statement.
"The authorities have failed to resolve the increasingly tense
situation surrounding the land grab," it charged. "Instead, they are
using delay tactics, empty promises and have repeatedly used violence
to disperse the villagers."
Last month, the World Bank admitted that its land-titling
programme, which was shut down in 2009, had failed thousands of
Boeung Kak's residents who have been forcibly evicted over the past
two years.
Thousands more residents - including those protesting Thursday -
are under imminent threat of being evicted with little or no
compensation in a controversial development deal of a 133-hectare
site that is linked to a senator from the ruling Cambodian People's
Party.
Few if any of Boeung Kak's residents have been able to get land
title documents from the local authorities despite legal experts
saying that many are entitled to them.
Cambodia's land tenure system was destroyed during decades of
conflict. The World Bank's project was designed to ensure people
could get land title documents.
In March, the Cambodian government warned the remaining 2,000
families to accept compensation ahead of their pending evictions or
face legal action. Residents and land rights activists have long said
the compensation on offer is far too low.
In recent years, land prices have rocketed across Cambodia as the
economy strengthened, and tens of thousands of people have been
driven off their land by the powerful and well-connected.


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