Plight of citizens PUSHED ASIDE by progress
Looking from the West to the East, the North to the South, large-scale development continues apace across Southeast Asia, leaving a toll on people whether or not it is linked to ambitious plans proposed in Asean frameworks.
On June12, Cambodian villagers had travelled a long distance and across the border to Thai court to testify that a Thai sugar producer had illegally seized their land in Oddar Meanchay province where its subsidiary planned to cultivate sugarcane.
Transborder News reported that the court was asked to decide whether the complaints they shared with more than 700 other people constituted grounds for a class-action suit.
Piyaporn Wongruang
