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mars 23, 2005
Cambodia to probe bloody end to eviction protest
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's government pledged on Tuesday to investigate the deaths of six villagers shot by soldiers and police during a protest against land evictions in the country's northwest.
More than 100 villagers were protesting over their court-ordered eviction from a plot of land in Kbal Spean village near the Thai-Cambodian border on Monday.
Police said some villagers were armed with knives and axes and began throwing stones at 100 soldiers and police called out to disperse the crowd.
"We did not mean to go there and shoot them, but when the villagers started to attack and throw stones, the police responded by shooting into the crowd," Rath Srieng, the province's chief of military police, told Reuters.
Four villagers were shot dead and two later died from gunshot wounds, provincial police chief Sok Sareth said.
He said one police officer suffered knife wounds.
In the capital, Phnom Penh, the Interior Ministry and Military Police said a committee would investigate the incident, but officials gave no further details.
Human rights groups accused authorities of using excessive force to evict the 218 families, many of them former Khmer Rouge who settled there after the final remnants of the "Killing Fields" fighters laid down their weapons in 1998.
The families have fought their eviction since a court in 2001 ordered the land be given to the chief of Kbal Spean village.
"We strongly condemn the attacks by government forces," said human rights activist Kek Galabru.
"The government should find new land or compensate the villagers rather than use force to move them," she said.
Posted by socrate at mars 23, 2005 10:04 AM
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