Water plant means eviction for families in Sihanouk
Despite authorities turning a blind eye to their villages for more than 15 years, about 2,000 families living near Preah Sihanouk province’s Kbal Chhay waterfall face imminent eviction to make way for a clean-water processing plant, officials said yesterday. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent bold move to grant land to villagers embroiled in land disputes won’t apply to the thousands living at Kbal Chhay, who occupy what will become a social, not economic, land concession. Nuon Bunthol, director at Preah Sihanouk provincial hall, said that today the provincial joint working group and local authorities will travel to the area to take notes and gather statistics of households and families in the Kbal Chhay region to prepare for the eventual relocation. …
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