Another New Year fracas at land dispute site
Security guards at the center of a yearlong land dispute between families in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community and the Khun Sear Import Export Company on Wednesday accused the families of attacking them during a late-night Khmer New Year drinking party. Nuon Sokhannara, one of the Khun Sear Company’s six security guards, said that 10 people on five motorbikes had arrived after midnight on Tuesday night and began slinging rocks at the guards. “Those people got off their motorbikes and attacked us with rocks while we were eating and drinking on a wooden bed on the company’s land at 1:20 a.m. Wednesday,” said Mr. Sokhannara. “Some of us laid down and others ran into the house to escape from the rock-throwing attack.” He added that he believed that Ly Sreang Kheng, the father of one of the three families in Boeng Kak I commune refusing to cede their land to the Khun Sear Company, had ordered the attack “in order to take revenge for an event earlier this week.” …
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