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18 Jul 2012

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"Cambodia Clean Sugar" campaign - company responses & non-responses

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[T]he Clean Sugar Campaign issued its “Response to the Ve Wong Corporation”, which welcomed Ve Wong’s statement that “if there is any evidence proving that...the land [was illegally acquired] from residents, the companies are willing to return [the land] and compensate all relocation costs of all affected families.” ...[T]he statement also detailed that “illegal land seizures, forced evictions and other human rights violations and criminal acts…have been substantiated by numerous third parties.”...Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited the two companies named to respond to the statement [Khon Kaen Sugar (part of KSL Group) did not respond; Ve Wong responded that it contacted its subsidiary in Cambodia, but the subsidiary had not yet replied]

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Kho Kaen Sugar operations in Cambodia "breached right to life & self-determination" of local villagers (National Human Rights Commission of Thailand)

Cambodia: Villagers file complaint with US National Contact Point alleging land seizure for sugar plantation supplying American Sugar Refining breached OECD guidelines

Cambodia: Representative of Thailand's Khon Kaen Sugar visits Koh Kong community involved in land case, says company wants to end dispute ‘as soon as possible’

Cambodia: Koh Kong Sugar manager says company will return disputed land to villagers, calls on govt. to find alternative land for company