Ethnic Bunong Groups Granted New Land Titles
The government has completed the communal land-titling process for three ethnic Bunong communities in Mondolkiri province living on 1,000 hectares of land in Keo Seima district, villagers and a rights group said yesterday. The three new titles-which will bring to six the total number of communal titles granted since the country’s Land Law was passed in 2001-will be given to about 100 families living in Sre Preah and Sre Khtum communes and are expected to be delivered by the end of the year. … While efforts have begun to issue titles for Cambodia’s ethnic groups, human rights groups have long criticized the slow implementation of communal titling. …
