
Almost three-quarters of the arable land in Cambodia has been ‘leased’ to companies by the government. That equates to almost one-third of the country. On 80% of the leased land, rubber is now cultivated. In almost all cases, these leases lead to evictions, which are mostly accompanied by violence on the part of the police and military against the civil population. More than half a million Cambodians are already victims of land conflicts. The profiteers are both the Cambodian elite and international concerns. It is a true catastrophe for a country like Cambodia, but however, scarcely recognized by the German public. By Jens Berger
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