Tag: Bunong

Pu Lu village community representative Maly Kim holds one of the agreements he signed after five years of negotiations, but he worries the company will not deliver on its promises. (Jack Brook/CamboJA)

After Rubber Firm Deal, Bunong Fear Broken Promises, Uncertain Land Tenure

4 Nov 2022 5:07 PM|
Jack Brook|

Indigenous villages signed deals with European firm Socfin in hopes of securing communal land titles within Socfin’s rubber concessions. But after ceding most of their…

Members of the Bunong indigenous minority gathered in front of the Mondulkriri provincial hall in 2009 to seek intervention in their land dispute with French-funded firm Socfin-KCD. Supplied

French court drops case of nearly 100 Bunong families in rubber plantation dispute

15 Jul 2021 8:20 PM|
Chea Sokny|

Civil rights groups are decrying the erosion of indigenous land rights after a French court dropped a lawsuit from a collective of 97 Bunong minority…