{"id":24370,"date":"2022-05-26T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T03:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/?p=24370"},"modified":"2022-07-07T14:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T07:32:16","slug":"running-for-re-election-after-sale-of-indigenous-burial-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/running-for-re-election-after-sale-of-indigenous-burial-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Running for Reelection After Sale of Indigenous Burial Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"zoomie\">\n\t<div>Sen Monorom commune, Mondulkiri<\/div>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sen-monorom.jpg\">\n<\/div>\n<style>\n.zoomie {\n\tfloat:left;\n\twidth: 240px;\n\theight: 150px;\n\tborder: dotted;\n\tborder-width: 1px;\n\tborder-color: #ff0000;\n\tbox-shadow: 0px 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\n\toverflow: hidden;\n\tposition: relative;\n\tmargin-right: 15px;\n}\n.zoomie:hover {\n\tborder: solid;\n\tborder-color: #c0c0c0;\n\tborder-width: 1px;\n}\n.zoomie > div {\n\tposition: relative;\n\tz-index: 10;\n\tfont-family: \"Source Serif Pro\", serif;\n\tfont-size: 11px;\n\tfont-weight: bold;\n\tline-height: 1;\n\tmargin: 5px;\n}\n.zoomie > img {\n\twidth: 100%;\n\theight: 100%;\n\ttransition: width 1s, height 1s, left 1s, top 1s;\n\tposition: absolute;\n\tleft: 0%;\n\ttop: 0%;\n\tmax-width: none;\n}\n.zoomie:hover > img {\n\twidth: 200%;\n\theight: 200%;\n\tleft: -90%;\n\ttop: -45%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p>Tay Ngerb walks down a grassy hill, heading straight for a bamboo shrub. After walking 10 meters through the thicket, Ngerb points to a concrete grave littered with bamboo leaves. Two people immediately start brushing off the dead leaves, and an elderly lady \u2014 the deceased\u2019s wife \u2014 cracks open a can of soursop juice and places it with other offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ngerb takes water from a <em>peang<\/em>, a dull ochre traditional Bunong jar that has been left beside the grave, and pours it on the concrete. He repeats this a few more times. He explains that the <em>peang<\/em> is used to store items \u2014 like farm tools and personal items \u2014 and, more importantly, demarcates the location of the graves, most of which are unmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in late 2018, the indigenous community noticed missing <em>peang. <\/em>It first started with fence posts coming up on the 30-hectare hillside land in Mondulkiri\u2019s Sen Monorom commune, in O\u2019Reang district. Then the <em>peang<\/em> started disappearing, leaving graves unmarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey wanted to eliminate the evidence that we buried the dead there,\u201d Ngerb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The missing <em>peang<\/em> posed a precarious dilemma for the residents \u2014 how would they locate their ancestors\u2019 graves. \u201cWe dare not dig to find the graves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young man said village residents had met with commune officials and asked for help, but all the commune chief and councilors would do for them was suggest they accept compensation for the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was perplexed by the councilors\u2019 suggestion. Ngerb said they have never been approached by a broker or the supposed landowner offering money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe said we didn\u2019t want to accept the money at the meeting, because this land is not private land, nor does it belong to any one individual,\u201d Ngerb said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you accepted, you would be guilty because this is the land for the common interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sen Monorom Bunong community\u2019s experience is far from one-off. Mondulkiri is riddled with land disputes and land sales propagated by land speculators and development projects, including a proposed airport in the province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lust for land had the complicity of local and national politicians. An Interior Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/mondulkiri-district-governor-transferred-over-illegal-land-grabbing\/\">investigation from 2020 named 10 individuals<\/a> \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/senator-apologizes-over-land-grab-still-protected-by-immunity\/\">a senator<\/a>, district governors and commune chiefs \u2014 as being involved in illegal land sales or grabs. The investigation and release of the report was a rarity in a country where land disputes run rampant, often with little acknowledgement of wrongdoing by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tay Blong is the nephew of the man \u2014 a former Pu Rang village chief \u2014 buried at the Sen Monorom traditional gravesite. He is also the chief candidate for the Cambodia Indigenous People\u2019s Democracy Party in Sen Monorom commune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blong is hesitant to identify who is responsible for the land sale, only placing blame with the commune office for failing to protect the land. \u201cI can&#8217;t say their names, but I can only tell you that they are the local officials,\u201d Blong said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He adds that he and some residents had removed the fence posts appearing on the hillside, but were threatened by the alleged owner of the land. They again went to the commune hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe asked [the commune officials] to solve it for us, but they didn&#8217;t,\u201d he said. \u201cThey asked us to negotiate or keep quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_004-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"A Bunong grave in Mondulkiri\u2019s Sen Monorom commune, in O'Reang district, in May 2022. (Ananth Baliga\/VOD)\" class=\"wp-image-24371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_004-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_004-464x290.jpg 464w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_004-240x150.jpg 240w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_004-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_004-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_004.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A Bunong grave in Mondulkiri\u2019s Sen Monorom commune, in O&#8217;Reang district, in May 2022. (Ananth Baliga\/VOD)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_007-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"Sen Monorom commune chief Thvan Trel, in Mondulkiri\u2019s O'Reang distirct, in May 2022. (Ananth Baliga\/VOD)\" class=\"wp-image-24372\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_007-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_007-218x290.jpg 218w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_007-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_007-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_007.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><figcaption>Sen Monorom commune chief Thvan Trel, in Mondulkiri\u2019s O&#8217;Reang distirct, in May 2022. (Ananth Baliga\/VOD)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thvan Trel arrives for an interview with reporters 60 minutes late. Trel is one of the 10 officials implicated by the Interior Ministry in land grabs, and is running again for commune chief at the June 5 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sitting CPP commune chief places two phones and a pink plastic pouch on a wooden table at the commune hall. She then proceeds to make a 45-minute defense of her tenure as commune chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commune chief is also Bunong, and grew up in the area until her family moved north to Koh Nhek district, fleeing American bombing in the 1970s. She was first elected in 2012 and is in her second term heading the commune council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She admitted that the commune, and district at large, had seen its fair share of land disputes. She listed small land disputes between villagers and private companies or individuals and the proposed Mondulkiri airport site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she admitted to no wrongdoing on her part, and said she had resolved any dispute that was brought to her attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere were some small land disputes but we solved it peacefully,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about the Interior Ministry report, Trel immediately evades blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat I heard is that grandfather Noy Sron made a request and we signed it,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trel had signed documents presented to her by CPP Senator Noy Sron, transferring around 500 hectares of state land to the politician, she said. She didn\u2019t even put a date on it or use the commune stamp, just her signature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe told us he had a request from his superior,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the only time she had signed a document under pressure from a senior official, Trel said. The commune chief said she was punished for the incident \u2014 Trel did not elaborate on the punishment except to say she was warned not to sign documents without closely reading them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Trel and two other commune chiefs were given minor penalties, Sron was<a href=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/senator-apologizes-over-land-grab-still-protected-by-immunity\/\"> let off with an apology<\/a>. The senator enjoys immunity. Of the 10 people implicated, only<a href=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/mondulkiri-district-governor-transferred-over-illegal-land-grabbing\/\"> a Koh Nhek district governor was transferred<\/a> to the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow, that case has ended,\u201d she said. \u201cThe land is transferred back to the Ministry of Environment, and the ministry patrols that land every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also denied any dispute with Bunong burial grounds in Pu Rang village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRegarding the clearing of burial grounds, there is no such case happening here, nephew,\u201d she told a reporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_006-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Tay Blong walks near boundary posts on the hills of Mondulkiri\u2019s O\u2019Reang district, in May 2022. (Ananth Baliga\/VOD)\" class=\"wp-image-24373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_006-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_006-464x290.jpg 464w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_006-240x150.jpg 240w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_006-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_006-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vodenglish.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/signal-2022-05-25-195954_006.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Tay Blong walks near boundary posts on the hills of Mondulkiri\u2019s O\u2019Reang district, in May 2022. (Ananth Baliga\/VOD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Another Dispute<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andoung Kraloeng is a village on the southern extreme of Sen Monorom commune, bordering the Keo Seima protected forest. Even in this village, fingers point at Trel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe lost burial land that our ancestors had built; it has affected our traditions,\u201d said Sokha Thot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thot is the head of the Bunong community center. He said indigenous people in the village had communal lands they were using as a burial ground and for agriculture. Around four years ago, excavators entered the land, cleared the graves and placed fence posts around the land, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The land had been given to a local oknha to build a resort. Again, village residents asked Trel for help but with no luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe should not stay with the powerful. She serves the people, not the oknha,\u201d Thot said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thot said the community was given some compensation for the lost land, but did not provide additional details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trel sidestepped the controversy when asked by reporters about the land dispute and only said residents were given money for the land and were using another site for their burial grounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all the land disputes during her term, the commune chief heaves a deep sigh when asked about her chances at the upcoming election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRegarding the vote, I don\u2019t know whether I will lose or not. Let\u2019s wait and see the obvious,\u201d she said. \u201cI think people should not get mad at me about this because I\u2019m not in control of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, residents\u2019 opinion of Trel is far from cheery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know who will win, I think there must be a change,\u201d said Ngerb, standing near his uncle\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitting near the Bunong community center in Andoung Kraloeng village, Thot said, \u201cI think she should quit. But in this generation, the wrongdoer becomes right and the right person becomes wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thvan Trel is one 10 officials implicated by the Interior Ministry in Mondulkiri land grabs, and is running again for commune chief at the June 5 election. 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