Penunjuk perasaan Kemboja bertembung dengan polis
tentera (tidak kelihatan) dalam pakaian pekerja membantah untuk menuntut gaji
yang lebih tinggi di hadapan sebuah kilang di Phnom Penh pada 3 Januari 2014. (AFP Photo – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
JohnnyAdam – Sekurang-kurangnya
3 orang terbunuh di ibu negara Kemboja, Phnom Penh, selepas pasukan keselamatan
melepaskan tembakan ke atas pekerja pakaian rali untuk gaji yang lebih tinggi,
menurut saksi kejadian.
2
pekerja hak asasi manusia, yang menyaksikan peristiwa-peristiwa, dilaporkan
mangsa kepada Reuters. Mereka berkata pasukan keselamatan bersenjatakan
senapang serangan dan pistol ditembak di penunjuk perasaan yang membaling batu,
botol dan bom petrol di bandar di luar sebuah kilang.
Selepas
menembak tembakan amaran ke udara, polis mula menembak penunjuk perasaan,
jurugambar AFP di tempat kejadian yang dilaporkan.
Pasukan
keselamatan Kemboja telah mengakui bahawa seorang telah mati dan beberapa yang
cedera akibat tindakan keras, yang menurut agensi-agensi penguatkuasaan
undang-undang, telah didorong oleh penunjuk perasaan yang cedera 9 pegawai
dengan batu dan lastik.
“Kami
takut mengenai keselamatan, jadi kami terpaksa mengambil tindakan keras ke atas
mereka,” AFP melaporkan Kheng Tito sebagai berkata. “Jika kami membenarkan
mereka untuk terus menyerang, ia akan menjadi anarki.” Aktivis hak asasi
manusia telah dipanggil untuk berjaga 3 hari bagi memperingati mangsa-mangsa
keganasan polis.
Dianggarkan kira-kira 350,000 pekerja di lebih daripada 500 kilang-kilang pakaian kini mogok di Kemboja, menuntut gaji minimum 2 kali ganda $ 160 sebulan. Kerajaan telah hanya menawarkan kenaikan gaji 20 % daripada $ 100 sebulan, dan menegaskan ia tidak akan berkompromi mana-mana lagi.
“Tidak akan ada lagi rundingan, kerana kementerian telah memutuskan untuk mening-katkan gaji minimum untuk $ 100 sebulan,” kata jurucakap Kementerian Buruh Heng Masam berkata, Wall Street Journal melaporkan.
Pada hari Khamis, tentera Kemboja bersenjatakan cota dan senapang telah dikerahkan di Phnom Penh untuk menyuraikan tunjuk perasaan. “Askar memukul semua orang. Mereka mempunyai kayu, cota elektrik, lastik dan batu,” kata aktivis hak buruh Chhorn Sokha Komuniti Perundangan Pendidikan Pusat, kepada Reuters, yang jurugambar di antara mereka dilanda cota.
Aktivis itu berkata sekurang-kurangnya 10 penunjuk perasaan ditahan. Terdapat juga laporan sami-sami Buddha yang dipukul.
Cambodian protesters killed as police crack down
on garment workers' rally . . .
At least
three people have been killed in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, after
security forces opened fire on garment workers rallying for higher wages,
according to eyewitnesses.
Two
human rights workers, who witnessed the events, reported the casualties to
Reuters. They said security forces armed with assault rifles and pistols shot
at demonstrators who hurled rocks, bottles and petrol bombs outside a factory
in the city.
After
firing warning shots in the air, police began firing at the protesters, AFP’s
photographer at the scene reported.
The
Cambodian security forces have acknowledged that one person has died and several
are wounded as a result of the crackdown, which, according to law enforcement
agencies, was provoked by the demonstrators who injured nine officers with
stones and slingshots.
"We
were afraid about security, so we had to crack down on them," AFP reported
Kheng Tito as saying. "If we allow them to continue the strike, it will
become anarchy." Human rights activists have called for a three-day vigil
in memory of the victims of the police violence.
It’s
estimated that around 350,000 workers of more than 500 garment factories are
currently on strike in Cambodia, demanding the minimum wage be doubled to $160
a month. The government has only offered a 20% pay rise of $100 a month, and
has insisted it will not compromise any further.
"There
will be no more negotiation, as the ministry has already decided to increase
minimum wages to $100 a month," Labor Ministry spokesman Heng Sour said,
The Wall Street Journal reported.
On
Thursday, Cambodian troops armed with batons and rifles were deployed in Phnom
Penh to break up the protest.
"Soldiers beat up everyone. They had sticks, electric batons,
slingshots and stones," labor rights activist Chhorn Sokha, of the
Community Legal Education Center, told Reuters, whose photographer was among
those hit by batons.
The activist
said at least 10 protesters were detained. There were also reports of Buddhist
monks being beaten up.
Para pekerja membaling batu selepas pertempuran
tercetus ketika protes di Phnom Penh 3 Jan 2014. (A worker throws a stone after
clashes broke out during a protest in Phnom Penh January 3, 2014.
(Reuters/Samrang Pring – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Penyebaran
ganas pekerja pakaian dengan bantuan tentera telah dikutuk oleh aktivis hak
asasi. “Penggunaan [tentera] Unit Perintah Khas 911 untuk menyekat demonstrasi
ber-hampiran kilang Yak Jin di daerah Pursenchey Phnom Penh pernah berlaku
sebelum ini dan isyarat taktik baru membimbangkan oleh pihak berkuasa untuk
membatalkan apa yang telah protes sebahagian aman,” kumpulan hak asasi manusia
tempatan LICADHO adalah dipetik sebagai berkata oleh AP. “Sebahagian daripada
mereka yang ditahan diper-cayai telah dipukul dengan teruk kerana mereka telah
ditangkap.”
Pakaian
dan kasut industri pengeluaran adalah perniagaan eksport terbesar Kemboja,
setiap tahun pendapatan negara ini kira-kira $ 5 bilion. Amerika Syarikat dan
Eropah peruncit telah tertarik kepada rantau ini dengan kos upah yang rendah,
punca utama rasa tidak puas hati pekerja yang semakin meningkat. Tahun lepas
menyaksikan 131 serangan berasingan di antara Januari dan November, meningkat
daripada 121 untuk semua tahun 2012, menurut perangkaan persatuan pengeluar
pakaian ini.
The
violent dispersal of garment workers with the help of the army was condemned by
rights activists. “The use of [military] Special Command Unit 911 to suppress
demonstrations near Yak Jin factory in Phnom Penh's Pursenchey district is
unprecedented and signals a disturbing new tactic by authorities to quash what
have been largely peaceful protests,'' local human rights group LICADHO was
cited as saying by AP. “Some of those held are believed to have been severely
beaten as they were arrested.''
The
garment and footwear production industry is Cambodia's biggest export business,
annually earning the country around $5 billion. US and European retailers have
been attracted to the region by the low wage costs, the major cause of the
workers’ growing discontent. Last year saw 131 separate strikes in between
January and November, up from 121 for all of 2012, according to the garment
manufacturers' association’s figures.
Seorang pekerja membawa batang logam bertindak balas
selepas pertempuran tercetus ketika protes di Phnom Penh 3 Januari 2014. (Reuters/Samrang Pring – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
Seorang pekerja pakaian cedera dibantu oleh
rakan-rakannya selepas pertempuran tercetus ketika protes di Phnom Penh 3 Jan
2014. (Reuters/Samrang
Pring – think IN pictures @1WORLD Community)
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