Published on Spiegel Online International, by Andreas Lorenz, Nov 27, 2013 (Photo Gallery).
Each year, foreign agricultural corporations deprive thousands of Cambodian farmers of their fields — with the government’s help. Human rights groups claim German taxpayer money is used to fund a program that benefits land grabbers.
Everyone in the Cambodian village of Chouk remembers what happened on the morning of May 19, 2006, when bulldozers appeared on National Route 48, which cuts through the town. Men from a Thai company, Khon Kaen Sugar Industry PCL, presented the Cambodian villagers with documents and said: « This land now belongs to us. » Continuer la lecture de « Land Grab: Foreign Firms Drive Cambodians from Farms »