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Aloun Farm Workers Plight Detailed
Submitted by HPI on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 00:06
The two brothers who own Aloun Farms, Alec and Mike Sou, have plead guilty to forced labor charges. The sentencing portion of the trial is scheduled to resume on September 9. If the brothers are jailed, it is feared that their Ewa plain farmland, among Hawaii's best, may be lost to an eager developer, D.R. Horton-Schuler Hawaii. by Malia Zimmerman A delay in sentencing two brothers who plead guilty in federal court to forced labor charges at their Oahu farm operation will put the workers’ impoverished families in Thailand six weeks closer to losing their farms and homes. Michael Mankone Sou and Alec Souphone Sou, owners of Aloun Farm, were able to get their sentencing in U.S. District Court postponed from July 19 to September 9, after their attorneys told Judge Susan Oki Mollway that their clients who operate the 3,000 acre farm in Kapolei were bullied by federal agents into signing a guilty plea this past January. Samporn Khanja, one of 44 men the Sous admitted to bringing to Hawaii from Thailand in September 2004 to work at Aloun, was in federal court to witness the proceedings with his wife Joanna Thakhamhor. They were hoping for a resolution in the criminal case – Samporn’s family is counting on it. As Thai recruiters directed him and the other workers to do, Samporn borrowed $20,000 to pay them on their promise that he would make that money and much more back over a three to four year contract with Aloun. However, Aloun released him and most of the other Thai workers without paying for their transportation home after only employing them from September 2004 to February 2005, and according to Samporn and federal prosecutors, paying them far less than the promised $9.60 an hour. The collateral for Samporn’s two loans are the family’s 35-acres of rice fields and their home in Maha Sarakham, Thailand. If Samporn doesn’t pay back the entire $20,000 plus $13,000 in interest for a total of $33,000 by this December, his family will lose everything they own. Read more . . . Farm owners describe wrongdoing Aloun Farm Owners to Be Sentenced [HPI] Why it matters to everyone in Hawaii Aloun Farms' Fate Will Have Major Impact on Local Agriculture Aloun Farms Owners, Thai Recruiter, Indicted [HPI] Story by the investigative reporter, Malia Zimmerman of Hawaii Reporter, who brought the workers' plight to light TSA Negligence Helps Gain Not Guilty Verdicts in Oahu Case [HPI] Aloun Farms neighbor Jefts Farms in court for their illegal alien workers Protest Saved Prime Farmland [HPI] Aloun Farms and Jefts Farms work prime farmland on the Ewa plain that is classed as the best in the world. In 2009 it was almost lost forever to a housing project. As is usually the situation in political causes, persistence and awareness continue to be necessary to protect against losing this irreplaceable farmland in the future. »
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Under conditions that smack of human trafficking, Thai workers at Aloun Farms were charged fortunes in terms of their Thai standard of living to come to Hawaii and earn incomes that were far less than what they were promised, writes Malia Zimmerman of Hawaii Reporter.