Liberia: Locals Accuse Salala Rubber Company, Liberia Agricultural Company of Land Grabbing

May 29, 2019 | FrontPage Africa
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Two major Liberian rubber plantation companies, including the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) and Liberia Agricultural Company (LAC) are under intense pressure from project-affected communities to immediately halt further illegal expansion and encroachment of their ancestral lands and withdraw from those illegally occupied areas.  SRC and LAC hold concessions of more than 128,000 hectares in Liberia but the operations of the two companies have been characterized by reports of gross human rights violations; land gripping, sexual harassment, violation of customary and international laws, forceful eviction of whole communities, devastation of crops, sacred spots and water sources with little or no compensations to project affected communities.