Deal #3380 Version #60458

The allocated land covers forest and upland fallow crop land of 3 villages with the result that more than 300 households had to cut this size of land out of their upland land to make place for the paper pulp project without any compensation.

Mr. Lo Van Vinh comments these events as follows: ‘InnovGreen representatives conducted village meetings with the promise to villagers in 3 Cam Muon villages saying that: “Because the commune is in a remote mountainous area, we will give you support to build welfare facilities such as road, culture houses and help poor children to attend school”, however hitherto we did not receive any support from InnovGreen. Ethnic minority people in our villages live on forest and forest land. From now on, if we are not allowed to enter the forests, and no land for rice and cassava growing is available for us, we will definitely have nothing to do and hunger is unavoidable,’ (VietNamNet, 26th March, 2010, Vietnamese version)