More than 1,800 families seek help
About 60 people representing 1,850 families from seven villages in Battambang province’s Sampov Loun district yesterday petitioned Interior Minister Sar Kheng and Prime Minister Hun Sen for intervention in a land dispute. Villagers claim that district authorities leased 4,095 hectares of their land in Chrey Seima and Serei Meanchey communes to Suon Mean Sambath Co Ltd for 70 years to cultivate agro-industrial crops. So Phy, president of Sampov Loun district council, said yesterday that when the villages were created in 2008 the residents had not been granted land rights.
