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30 Mai 2012

Author:
100 national and international NGO signatories

Open Letter to World Bank President Robert Zoellick and President-Elect Jim Yong Kim

Dear President Zoellick and President-Elect Kim, ...[N]ow is the wrong time to end the suspension [of new loans to Cambodia]...The past month has seen a series of shocking and inexcusable events in Cambodia...[An]environmental activist was shot dead by armed forces after taking two journalists to a logging area...[A] 14-year old girl was killed by a soldier during a brutal forced eviction of a village in Kratie province..[F]emale residents of Boeung Kak staged a peaceful demonstration...[A] mixed force...used violence to break up the demonstration and then arrested 13 women....[W]e remain deeply concerned about the 3500 Boeung Kak families, who had...reluctantly accepted the inadequate compensation package and left their lakeside homes under extreme duress...We are also concerned about the 94 families that have been excluded from the benefits of the Prime Minister’s sub decree...