Phanimex second company to be declared "enemy of the Khmer people"

January 6, 2012

FOLLOWING BOREI KEILA INCIDENTS, PHANIMEX IS DECLARED “ENEMY OF THE
KHMER PEOPLE”

On behalf of the justice-loving Cambodian people and in defense of
countless victims of abuses and injustices in this country, the Sam
Rainsy Party (SRP), Cambodia’s second largest political party,
declares the PHANIMEX company “enemy of the Khmer people” for its
socially unacceptable Borei Keila real estate development in the
capital city of Phnom Penh that has caused heartbreaking sufferings to
hundreds of poor people over the last few years. Victims of land
grabbing and forced evictions due to PHANIMEX have been savagely
repressed until the last few days.

On September 11, 2011 the SRP Fifth Convention adopted the following
resolution (point # 2):

« Approve and publicize the watchword of the SRP: "Give back to the
Khmer people any assets stolen from them ".

The future government led by the SRP will cancel all land, forest and
mining concessions granted by the present government that were
associated with land grabbing and eviction of the legitimate owners of
the land.

Our nation’s assets will be given back to our nation.

Rice fields and other farmland, forests and mountains, rivers and
lakes, fishing zones, seashores and islands will be returned to their
legitimate owners, meaning the Khmer people, or will be used to serve
the public interest and the needs of the entire population, especially
the poorest segment of the population.

Any individual or private company that forcibly seizes land or living
areas belonging to the local population and deprives them of their
livelihood is considered as “enemy of the Khmer people” and will be
punished accordingly.

The people are the only owners and masters of the land. »

Therefore the SRP warns all legitimate companies and organizations
worldwide not to associate themselves in any way with the PHANIMEX
company, meaning, inter alias, not to detain any stake in its capital,
not to get involved in any joint venture with it, not to lend it any
money, not to give it any guarantee, not to buy any good, service or
product from it, not to sell any good, service or product to it, not
to cooperate with it in any way, and, in short, not to be perceived as
accomplices of this enemy of the Khmer people that will be treated as
such when Cambodia becomes a democratic, independent and sovereign
state.

The PHANIMEX company is owned and managed by Ms SUY SOPHAN, a ruthless
and unscrupulous businesswoman closely associated with the ruling
Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). PHANIMEX is the second private company
to be declared “enemy of the Khmer people” by the SRP. The first
company to be denounced that way was SHUKAKU Inc. which was given this
infamous title “Enemy of the Khmer people” on September 19, 2011 for
its senseless Boeung Kak Lake development project in Phnom Penh also.
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SRP Members of Parliament