Villagers say soldiers blocking land

Twenty-seven families in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district filed a complaint with Hun Sen’s cabinet and the rights group Adhoc on Monday, maintaining that soldiers have been preventing them from farming since October 2012. A representative of the villagers, Soeung Sophea, 59, said yesterday that troops from the Number 6 Intervention Brigade have threatened the families and prohibited them from planting on a 150-hectare plot of land, a charge the army denies. …

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