October 3, 2011
FOREIGN COMPANIES WITHDRAWING FROM BOEUNG KAK PROJECT
This is important news related to the controversial Boeng Kak investment project that has led to land grabbing and forced and violent evictions affecting thousands of poor families in Phnom Penh.
Following numerous and increasingly serious incidents between the concerned Shukaku company and the Phnom Penh Municipality authorities on the one hand, and the local population on the other hand, foreign companies associated with, and providing funds to, Shukaku, decided to withdraw from the controversial business association and project, therefore inevitably stalling and jeopardizing the project in the near future.
On September 19, 2011 the Sam Rainsy Party declared the Shukaku company “enemy of the Khmer people” (please read the statement in English below or in Khmer at http://tinyurl.com/3t8ravf).
We congratulate all those foreign companies for their wise decision to suspend their association with an enemy of the Khmer people.
For more details on this issue, please listen to Sam Rainsy’s interview with Candle Light Radio in Phnom Penh on October 1, 2011 at
SRP Cabinet
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September 19, 2011
SHUKAKU INC. DECLARED “ENEMY OF THE KHMER PEOPLE”
On behalf of the justice-loving Cambodian people and in defense of countless victims of abuses and injustices in this country, the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), Cambodia’s second largest political party, declares SHUKAKU Inc. “enemy of the Khmer people” for its senseless Boeung Kak Lake investment project in the capital city of Phnom Penh that has caused unspeakable sufferings to thousands of poor people over the last few years.
On September 11, 2011 the SRP Fifth Convention adopted the following resolution (point # 2):
« Approve and publicize the watchword of the SRP: "Give back to the Khmer people any assets stolen from them ". The future government led by the SRP will cancel all land, forest and mining concessions granted by the present government that were associated with land grabbing and eviction of the legitimate owners of the land. Our nation’s assets will be given back to our nation.
Rice fields and other farmland, forests and mountains, rivers and lakes, fishing zones, seashores and islands will be returned to their legitimate owners, meaning the Khmer people, or will be used to serve the public interest and the needs of the entire population, especially the poorest segment of the population. Any individual or private company that forcibly seizes land or living areas belonging to the local population and deprives them of their livelihood is considered as “enemy of the Khmer people” and will be punished accordingly. The people are the only owners and masters of the land. »
Therefore the SRP warns all legitimate companies and organizations worldwide not to associate themselves in any way with SHUKAKU Inc., meaning, inter alias, not to detain any stake in its capital, not to get involved in any joint venture with it, not to lend it any money, not to give it any guarantee, not to buy any good, service or product from it, not to sell any good, service or product to it, not to cooperate with it in any way, and, in short, not to be perceived as accomplices of this enemy of the Khmer people that will be treated as such when Cambodia becomes a democratic, independent and sovereign state.
SHUKAKU Inc. is owned and managed by Mr. Lao Meng Khin, a Senator from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and a ruthless and unscrupulous business tycoon. Details of the ongoing Boeung Kak Lake project can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6d7wvw2
SRP Members of Parliament
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