Families in Boeng Kak asked to give up land for titles
Families still waiting for promised land titles in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood said Sunday that the municipal government is offering to give them their long-awaited tenure rights only if they agree to give up part of their land. About 100 Boeng Kak families were left out of a plan, announced by Prime Minister Hun Sen in August 2011, to give land titles to the hundreds of neighborhood households facing eviction at the hands of a real estate project by CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin. Now those 100 or so families are slowly getting titles, too. But some of them are being asked to give up half their land first, sometimes more. … Boeng Kak resident Sles Musha said he, too, was asked a few weeks ago to cut his 168 square meters down to 72 and, like the others, refused. He accused Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong of going back on a promise he made at a meeting with villagers about three months ago. …
Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
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