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Shooting in Chi Kreng, Siem Reap
By: licadho
Posted: Mar 30 09
Witnessed: 4600 times
Regions: Asia, Cambodia
Issues: Housing, Police brutality
Tags: Cambodia, Forced Eviction, land grabbing, Licadho, shooting
LICADHO calls upon the Royal Cambodian Government to take urgent action in response to the unjustified violence by authorities against villagers involved in a land dispute in Chi Kreng district of Siem Reap province.
Four villagers were wounded when members of a joint force – including police, military police, border police and soldiers – opened fire on a crowd of farmers in Anlong Samnor commune on Sunday, March 22.
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