Ratanakkiri official defends disputed land

30 October 2015
The Phnom Penh Post
Land tenure and land titling
Keh Chung commune / Rattanakiri Provincial Land Management Department

A Ministry of Interior immigration official at the centre of a long-running land dispute in a gem mining district of Ratanakkiri spoke out for the first time yesterday, just days after 200 villagers protested what they termed their illegal eviction.

The villagers from Bakeo district’s Keh Chung commune claim they had been farming and mining for gems on the land in Keh Chung since 2005, and said Heng Socheat had no right to evict them as he had bought the land using aliases and possessed invalid land titles. …

 Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-official-defends-disputed-land

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