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. ...
