Years After Eviction, Families Return In Search of Land Titles

More than 100 families in Stung Treng province have returned to land they were evicted from in 2007, hoping to acquire property titles after student volunteers arrived in the area to demarcate land under the titling program announced last month by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Stung Treng City Governor Pheuk Sobin said the evicted families have been returning to the 100 hectares of land in Samakki commune since the beginning of the month in order to mark out their homes and replant crops on their former properties. …