1. Executive Summary
ANNUAL REPORT 2015 TO
Norwegian People Aid (NPA)
In Preah Vihear province is having many land conflicts through Economic Land Concession to do mining, and Agriculture projects. As result of these ELCs caused huge deforestation and rampant illegal logging by the profiteering oligarchy and illegal mining activities backed by powerful people. From Jan-Dec 2015, a drastically surge of land conflicts at NTFP’s targets at 2 communes, 8 villages (Romniey and Ruos Roan) in Rovieng district. Ruos Roan commune is having land conflict against the PNT company. Communities will lose hundreds hectares of rice fields, cashew, cassava and soybean farms, and including their resources such as, grazing field for cattle, sacred forest and cemetery forest, and losing forest for collecting Non-Timber Forest products. Romniey commune is facing land grabbed by Green Chhory company. Communities have lost thousands rice fields and farms. The issue of land’s conflict affected endemic to Romthom commune. Romniey communities are not only affected by economic land concessions and also mining companies, such as 1DELCOM, CWS2, and other small companies from Vietnam and also small scale of private miners that use machines for mining.
