Extra forces dispatched as KDC walls off land
A company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, with the backing of a mounting police force, pushed ahead Tuesday with walling off a swath of land in Kompong Chhnang province that has been at the center of a seven-year land dispute, which has erupted into violence three times in the past four days. With about 150 police looking on, some 400 workers continued to put up a more than 2-meter-high concrete wall around the 145 hectares of disputed land in Kompong Tralach district’s Ta Ches commune, which will make the area inaccessible to families living in the community, many of whom have farmed the land for decades. …
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