9 Feb 2016

Three local NGOs have filed a com­plaint with international sug­ar industry group Bonsucro for re­admitting Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol even though thousands of fam­ilies forced off the company’s for­mer plantations in Oddar Mean­chey province have yet to be fully compensated.

Membership in the group confers a sort of stamp of approval in­dicating that a company practices sus­tainable sugar sourcing…

…“In plain terms, MPG ser­iously deepened the impoverishment and suffering of a large number of already very poor people, and now MPG has a responsibility to do everything within its power to remedy the damage it caused.”…

Rights groups accuse Mitr Phol of forcing some 2,000 families off their farms and out of their homes since 2008, often with the help of lo­cal authorities who burned down their houses and threw some people in jail for trying to resist…