Cambodia: Verdict A Setback for Indigenous Land Rights

29-Mar-2001

Publication : Press Release

Human Rights Watch today expressed strong concern about a provincial court ruling in the highlands of northeasern Cambodian that dispossesses more than 900 indigenous people of their ancestral lands. On March 23, the provincial court in Ratanakiri province ruled against a civil complaint brought by ethnic Jarai and Tampuen people in three villages.

Information Source : Cambodia: Verdict A Setback for Indigenous Land Rights

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