Rights report decries Thai sugar firm’s tactics

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Phak Seangly and Shaun Turton

Asia's largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol, is responsible for violating the rights of hundreds of villagers in Oddar Meanchey who saw their land grabbed, homes destroyed and livestock killed to make way for plantations, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT).

The Thai company, one of three major suppliers to Coca-Cola, withdrew from its three economic land concessions, covering nearly 20,000 hectares in Samroang and Chongkal districts earlier this year, amidst complaints of human rights abuses and alleged irregularities.

Yesterday at Meta House in Phnom Penh, NHRCT commissioner Nirun Phitakwatchara launched the results of the body’s investigation into the dispute.

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