By Chun Sakada, VOA KhmerOriginal report from Phnom Penh
05 October 2009
Rights groups joined more than 300 displaced residents on Monday to urge the government to punish those powerful officials and companies who violate residents’ rights through forced evictions, as they marked World Habitat Day.
Thousands of Cambodians have been displaced in development schemes in the capital and land grabs for agricultural business in the provinces, an ongoing problem that critics have warned is causing political instability.
“The government ought to end the illegal implementation in forced evictions and temporarily postpone all forced evictions until there is a judicial system for executing human rights and mechanisms for the monitoring of implementation, to ensure social responsibilities with transparency,” Ny Chakriya, chief of investigation for the rights group Adhoc, said. “The government ought to ensure that there is a legal resolution with effectiveness, justice, equity, and timeliness for the victims because of the violation of residence rights and land and natural resources.
No comments:
Post a Comment