Protest continues as company fills in lake, threatens livelihoods

7 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Concessions / Government / Land / Provincial and local governments / Public land lease / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
Lay Ngy Co Ltd / Long Dimanche / Phnom Penh City Hall / Prek Pnov commune / Samraong commune / Samraong lake / Tonle Sap river / Yen Im

More than 300 villagers who live around Boeng Samraong lake in Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov district protested for a third day straight Sunday against a private company they say has been filling the lake with sand, threatening the livelihoods of local rice farmers and fishermen.

The protest began Friday morning as villagers from Samraong and Prek Pnov communes called on local authorities to stop the company, Lay Ngy Co. Ltd., from pumping sand it has been dredging from the Tonle Sap river into the 336-hectare lake, which was made a conservation area in 2008. …

 Ben Sokhean
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