{"id":370,"date":"2009-01-30T21:47:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T13:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/?p=370"},"modified":"2009-01-31T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T13:49:00","slug":"un-criticises-forced-evictions-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rice4life.sg\/bulletin\/current-affairs\/un-criticises-forced-evictions-in-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"UN criticises forced evictions in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The Cambodian government is forcing tens of thousands of poor people from their homes in a grave breach of human rights, a U.N. investigator said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Raquel Rolnik, United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, called for a halt to the evictions in the Southeast Asian country.<\/p>\n

“The increase in forced evictions throughout Cambodia is very alarming,” Rolnik said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Cambodian police fired teargas to move more than 130 families last weekend from a Phnom Penh slum facing the Mekong River, without giving them prior notice, she said. It was the latest of a series of land disputes in the country where garment factories and hotels are springing up fast.<\/p>\n

Rolnik, a Brazilian architect and urban planner, said those evicted from the site that the Cambodian government had sold to a private company should be compensated for losing their homes.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said an elderly woman and a boy were hit by a bulldozer during the nightime eviction, and other residents were injured by clubs and stones, some seriously.<\/p>\n

Police denied using excessive force against the group who had waged a 3-year battle against their eviction.<\/p>\n

“We did not use violence against them, but tear gas to disperse the people who resisted,” Phnom Penh police chief G. Touch Naruth told Reuters.<\/p>\n

In her statement, Rolnik said Cambodia sould stop the practice that results in increased homeless and destitution.<\/p>\n

“Forced evictions constitute a grave breach of human rights. They can be carried out only in exceptional circumstances and with the full respect of international standards,” she said.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 GENEVA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The Cambodian government is forcing tens of thousands of poor people from their homes in a grave breach of human rights, a U.N. investigator said on Friday. Raquel Rolnik, United Nations special rapporteur on…<\/p>\n

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