Land dispute: threatened villagers protect land

Roughly 100 villagers were allegedly threatened by soldiers brandishing AK-47s yesterday, while attempting to block a company from bulldozing their farms in Kratie province’s Snuol district. Soun Vicheka, a representative of 136 families in Snuol commune’s Krasaing village, said villagers formed a human chain to prevent  Horizon Agriculture Development Co Ltd from clearing their cassava plantations, after the company had already bulldozed 1,000 square metres of land…

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