Vietnam Firms Involved In Massive ‘Illegal Land Grabs’ In Laos And Cambodia: BBC
An environmental group has accused two Vietnamese rubber firms of involvement in massive land grabs in Cambodia and Laos.
In its report, Global Witness said HAGL and Vietnam Rubber Group had been allocated over 280,000 hectares for rubber plantations in the countries. Residents had been evicted and offered inadequate or no compensation, it said. It described the companies’ operations as leaving “a trail of environmental and social devastation”.
There is now a well-documented pattern of land disputes in both rural and urban Cambodia, where poorer residents are evicted from land they may have lived on for many years to make way for development projects. These projects are usually run by wealthy entrepreneurs connected to …..