철거민 만난 삼랑시 총재 : "벙꺽호수 개발책임자들은 감옥으로 가야"

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(보도) The Cambodia Daily 2013-8-6  (요약 번역) 크메르의 세계

철거민 만난 삼랑시 총재 : "벙꺽호수 개발책임자들은 감옥으로 가야"

Rainsy Says Those Behind Boeng Kak Deserve Jail

(사진: Siv Channa / The Cambodia Daily) 캄보디아 야당 지도자 삼 랑시 총재가 프놈펜의 유명한 철거민 공동체인 벙꺽호수 공동체를 찾아 연설하고 있다. 프놈펜 시내의 북쪽에 위치한 내호 벙꺽호수는 집권 '캄보디아 인민당'(CPP) 소속 상원의원이기도 한 라오 멩 킨(Lao Meng Khin) 회장 소유의 기업이 매립과 개발에 나서면서, 호수 주변 지역 주민 3천 가구 이상이 강제철거를 당했던 곳이다. 주민들 중 일부는 아직도 보상금 및 해결을 위해 투쟁하고 있다.

 * 삼 랑시 총재의 벙꺽 공동체 방문 상황은 다음의 기시물들을 참조하라.

      - "[동영상] 캄보디아 야당 삼랑시 총재 : 벙꺽호수 철거민들 방문"(2013-8-5 월)

      - "야당의 삼 랑시 총재, "유엔 개입" 촉구 - 화요일(8.6) 대규모 집회 예고"(AFP 2013-8-5)

- 삼 랑시(삼랭시) 총재는 월요일(8.5) 벙꺽호수 철거민 공동체를 만난 자리에서, 벙꺽호수를 매립하고 개발하는 데 책임이 있는 자들을 감옥으로 보내야 한다고 역설.

- 그는 "프놈펜의 홍수를 방지하고 관광산업에 활용돼야만 했던 벙꺽호수에 모래를 매립한 자들은 범죄자들이며, 따라서 투옥돼야만 한다"고 발언.

- 그는 벙꺽호수 개발계획을 주도한 께입 쭉데마(Kep Chuktema) 전 프놈펜시장을 비난하면서, 아직까지도 수감되어 있는 철거민 여성 욤 보파(Yorm Bopha) 씨의 석방을 촉구.

- 삼 랑시 총재의 방문 중, 16가구의 주민들은 집회장에서 떨어져 참여하지 않음. 그들은 프놈펜 시청에서 여당을 지지하는 대가로 잃어버렸던 주택을 보상받기로 약속을 받았다고 함. 본지는 이 사실을 시청 당국에 확인해보았으나 관계자들이 연락이 닿지 않음.

기사작성 : Aun Pheap 및 Zsombor Peter

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday vowed to return Phnom Penh’s beleaguered Boeng Kak neighborhood to its residents and to have those who filled the lake with sand thrown in jail, should the opposition CNRP ultimately prevail in contesting the unofficial results of last month’s election.

The Boeng Kak neighborhood witnessed some 3,000 families forcibly evicted after the city leased the land to CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin in 2007. The area has since become the flashpoint of years of anti-eviction protests around the city, and also led the World Bank to suspend loans to the government over the unfair treatment of the area’s residents.

Mr. Rainsy, who made land rights a central theme of his election campaign and is contesting the ruling CPP’s claim of having won the July 28 poll, made a brief tour of the Boeng Kak area on Monday trailed by more than 200 excited residents waving CNRP signs.

“The people who filled in the lake are criminals and they will be put in jail because we need to keep this lake to relieve flooding in the city and this lake is also for tour­ism,” Mr. Rainsy told a crowd outside the home of the neighborhood’s leading activist, Tep Vanny.

Mr. Rainsy alleged that both Mr. Meng Khin, whose real estate firm filled in the lake, and former city governor Kep Chuktema, who oversaw the evictions when he was in charge of Phnom Penh, should be held legally re­sponsible for their actions.

“Kep Chuktema conspired with Lao Meng Khin, the owner of Shukaku Inc., who filled in the lake and took this land for their own interests, so they must be responsible for the filling,” Mr. Rainsy said.

Mr. Rainsy also demanded the release of Boeng Kak anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha, who is serving a three-year jail sentence for an incitement conviction her supporters believe was politically motivated to stop her protesting.

“We do not believe the current development is right, because we have seen that the development confiscates people’s land and destroys their homes. Real development creates progress for all people throughout the country,” Mr. Rainsy said to cheers and applause. “We will not act like the previous government, which will step down soon because the people voted to drop the old prime minister,” he said.

Mr. Chuktema, who gave up the governor’s office earlier this year to mount a successful bid for Parliament on the CPP ticket in Phnom Penh, denied any criminal wrongdoing when contacted for comment Monday. “He is not prime minister yet, but he threatens to arrest people and put them in jail. So does he deserve to be a political leader? And can the people believe him?” Mr. Chuktema said. “I did nothing wrong,” he said.

Mr. Chuktema conceded that no development drive happens without mistakes, but then denied any responsibility for what had occurred at Boeng Kak because he was merely following un­specified orders from the national government. “I just want to stay in peace because I have retired,” he added.

Mr. Meng Khin and representatives for his firm could not be reached for comment.

Throughout their protests, the Boeng Kak activists have often professed their devotion to the CPP, even bringing along framed pictures of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany and pleading for their help.

But Ms. Vanny, who has been at the center of those protests, said many of them have lost faith in the ruling party. “We have lost belief in the CPP since they have been evicting people because of Kep Chuktema and Lao Meng Khin, and they always use the court system against the protesters,” Ms. Vanny said after Mr. Rainsy’s visit. “I hope the new prime minister for the fifth mandate will be His Excellency Sam Rainsy, and I hope he will not disappoint the people and that Cambodia will become a real democratic country.”

Mr. Rainsy has not swayed everyone, however.

Heng Mom, a former ally of Ms. Vanny’s, said she stayed away from opposition leader’s visit to the area because she and 15 other families cut a deal with city officials just ahead of the election in which they would all receive titles to their threatened homes in return for their votes for the ruling CPP. “The municipality promised to give land titles only to the 16 families because they promised to vote for the CPP,” she said.

Ms. Mom said she received a phone call from municipality administration chief Ket Chhe soon after the election promising the families that the titles would be delivered as soon as the NEC announced the official results, which are expected some time in September. Mr. Chhe could not be reached for comment regarding the votes for land titles deal.

Municipality spokesman Long Dimanche declined to comment.

Housing rights groups say the government violated its own land laws in Boeng Kak by failing to give the thousands of families who once lived there the chance to apply for land titles.

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