Two More Villagers Are Arrested Amid Evictions in Pursat
Two more people in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district were arrested Tuesday in connection with what local authorities are calling a secessionist plot, a forestry official said yesterday. Veal Veng district forestry chief Thorn Bunthet said that Kuy Van, 55, and Leng Chhoeuk, 50, were arrested Tuesday in Krapoeu Pi commune’s Kompong Kdey village for illegally living inside state forest and measuring plots of land for other villagers. “We arrested them because they measured and grabbed state land for ownership,” Mr. Bunthet said yesterday. “We will send them to the provincial court tomorrow to charge them.” Authorities demolished more than 200 houses in Kompong Kdey village this week in response to the supposed secessionist threat. …
