Bunong Say They Don’t Want Private Land Titles
Ethnic Bunong villagers living in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have sent a petition to the Ministry of Land Management, urging the government to refrain from issuing them private land titles, local officials said yesterday. This way they may instead to eligible for a communal title in the future. Bunong residents of Bosra commune’s seven villages have long been divided over whether to accept individual land titles, or hold out for a race communal title, which is designed to protect the ancestral land of indigenous communities and conserve their tradition of rotation farming techniques. …
