Keo Van, a villager from the Phi Thnou Commune at the protest, Kratie Province

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About 10:30am, security guards opened fire on the villagers
after they pleaded with the guards to let them harvest 
the cassava before the company cleared their land.



They said to us that if we did not leave, that one or 
two people would die. We did not allow them to clear our land, 
and after they spoke, they took five AK-47s and opened fire. 
They shot at us like a fight during the war. 
They ran and followed the villagers into the jungle 
to fight them when they fled for safety.