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Military Police Brutality During Unlawful Land Grab
LICADHO condemns the actions of military police officers who have committed violence, including shooting two people, while assisting a private company to unlawfully grab villagers’ land in Kandal Stung district of Kandal province.
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Cambodia: A Bang on the Head of the Lawmakers Should be a Call for Justice for Victims of Land Grabbing
On 13 January 2008 at around 11:30 pm a lawmaker named Chin Kim Sreng, 70, from the ruling party, was brutally beaten on the head in front of his house in Boeung Kang Kang commune, Chamcar Mon district, Phnom Penh. Chin was knocked unconscious in the attack which caused open wounds to his head. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
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Company and Authorities Intent on Inciting Disorder in Dey Krahorm
The 7NG company and Phnom Penh authorities are deliberately creating an extremely volatile situation through their renewed provocative actions toward the Dey Krahorm community, LICADHO said today.
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Call on Royal Government of Cambodia to Stop Attacks on the UN Special Representative Yash Ghai
The Cambodian Civil Society Organization Coalition wishes to express its deep concern about the recent direct attack by the Head of the Royal Government of Cambodia on Professor Yash Ghai, Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Human Rights in Cambodia, during his fourth visit to Cambodia, which just took place.
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Khmer Kampuchea Krom Monks Chased and Assaulted by Police in Phnom Penh
We, representatives of civil society, strongly condemn the excessive use of violence by the authorities against a group of Khmer Kampuchea Krom monks who gathered peacefully in front of the Vietnamese Embassy on the morning of 17 December 2007.
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Ongoing Provocative Actions of the 7NG Company Toward the People of Dey Krahorm
LICADHO is deeply concerned by the ongoing provocative actions of the 7NG company toward the people of Dey Krahorm, whom it is trying to evict. The most recent incident occurred last night when 7NG employees attempted to bring a large mechanical excavator into Dey Krahorm, which provoked an angry reaction from community residents who feared the earth-moving machine would be used to knock down their houses.
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Violent Crackdown of Garment Workers’ Strike in Kandal
The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) deplores the violent dispersal by provincial and district police of a garment workers’ strike on November 29, 2007 in Prek Khsev village, Rokar Khpous commune, Saang district, Kandal province.
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