Families Told to Prepare to Vacate Land Needed for Railway Station
Government officials met with more than 200 Phnom Penh families on Friday to lay out the state’s case for ownership of their land and the compensation they can expect when they are evicted from their homes situated along the city’s railway tracks. The $142 million project to upgrade the national railway network, which is being funded by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), is expected to displace some 4,000 families who have made their home on or next to the disused tracks. … Human rights groups say the families slated for eviction are receiving paltry compensation and are being moved to out-of-the-way relocation sites where work is scarce. …
