Battambang families to petition Prime Minister

26 August 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Government / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Ministries and other national bodies / Provincial and local governments / Social development
Boeng Bram commune / Court of Appeal / Hun Sen / National Assembly / Tim Dareth

A group of families involved in a land dispute with a businessman in Battambang province will today submit petitions to the National Assembly and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet to plead for intervention.

The more than 300 families, from Bavel district’s Boeng Bram commune, maintain that businessman Sorng Thorn has wrongly claimed 612 hectares of their farmland.

“We came to clear the land, which we have stayed on since 2004,” said villager Chhut Mao, 68, one of hundreds of farmers who fear authorities might evict them. ...

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