Violent Clashes Break Out Again at KDC Site

18 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Government / Human rights / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
Chea Kheng / Hul Veasna / KDC / LICADHO / Lor Peang village / Suy Sem

Violent skirmishes erupted again between workers and villagers at the restive KDC development site Thursday, with both sides blaming the other for using weapons and instigating the fracas. Clashes last occurred at the site on July 7, when about a hundred police were dispatched to Lor Peang village in Kompong Chhnang province. Kompong Tralach district police chief Hul Veasna said about 60 people were involved in the clash, the latest flare-up in a seven-year land dispute centering around a planned development project by KDC, which is owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem. …

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