Six evicted Boeng Kak families strike land deal

Six families that were evicted from the Boeng Kak lake community, including long-time activist Heng Mom, confirmed Wednesday that they had accepted a deal from Phnom Penh City Hall for plots of land and titles in the same neighborhood. The families have agreed to plots of land measuring 4-by-18 meters in Boeng Kak’s Village 22, reducing to 40 the number of families still without land. More than 100 families were omitted from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s August 2011 plan to give land titles to the remaining families fighting eviction in the area. …

Khuon Narim
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