Boeng Kak families reach out to embassies, EU
Members of 34 families facing eviction from Phnom Penh's Boeng Kak community yesterday called on five foreign embassies and the European Union to pressure the government into granting them land titles. They are among the 46 poor and untitled families living in Boeng Kak who have found themselves cut out of a government plan endorsed by Prime Minister Hun Sen last month to let the hundreds of families living around the former lake keep their modest homes... Heng Mom, one of the residents, said some of the unlucky families have agreed to negotiate for compensation with the firm developing the area, CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin's Shukaku Inc, in exchange for moving out...
