Pursat land dispute makes hay in capital

Rough[ly] 40 representatives of some 370 families locked in a years-long land dispute with a rubber concessionaire in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district demonstrated outside the Phnom Penh offices of Adhoc yesterday to publicise their situation. The villagers, many of whom are family members of soldiers stationed along the Thai border, maintained that they had occupied their land legally until 2010, when it was granted to a rubber plantation called MDS Company, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, without an adequate survey of who was occupying the land to begin with, an assessment Adhoc echoed. …

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