After Protest, Government Speeds Up Land Titles for Kratie Families

31 December 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Government / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction / Public land lease
Horizon Agriculture Development / Im Chhun Lim / Kratie deputy governor Khann Chamnan / Minister of Land Management / Ministry of Land Management / Snuol commune

Government officials have agreed to speed up the delivery of land titles promised to some 1,500 families in Kratie province after about 200 of them, angered by the months-long delay, protested outside their local commune office Monday. The protesters said they had their land measured in May by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s student volunteers, who have been measuring land across the country since mid-2012, as part of the premier’s mass land-titling project. … He [Snuol commune chief Vann Doeun] said the families had been living on the land since 2000 and were disputing ownership of more than half of a 10,000-hectare economic land concession granted to the Korean-owned Horizon Agriculture Development in 2008. … The government handed out some 380,000 titles as part of the prime minister’s project before work was suspended ahead of July’s national election. Work on the project resumed about a month ago.

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