Firm Owned by Ministry’s Wife Files Suit Against Four Villagers
The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has summoned four villagers embroiled in a long-running land dispute over charges of alleged incitement and violence involving a company owned by the wife of government minister, a court official said yesterday.
Two summoned vllagers, from Kompong Tralach district’s Ta Ches commune, faced similar charges last year but have continued a battle begun in 2007 with KDC company, which is owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy Suy Sem. …
The latest legal action comes after more than 70 villagers, who had left the disputed land, moved back in May and began farming their old properties. …
