Fear still lingers in Pro Ma

16 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando / Casotim / Cassava / Chhlong / Chhlong district governor Som Sarith / deforestation / eviction / forced eviction / forest clearing / Kan Sovan / Kratie Province / Land dispute / land eviction / land title / land-titling program / Mam Sonando / Pro Mar / Pro Mar shooting / Som Sarith / Sreng Pho / Touch Rem

A year to the day since armed soldiers stormed into the remote village of Pro Mar in Kratie province, killing a 14-year-old girl, arresting her husband and evicting hundreds of families, Sreng Pho still has nightmares. “I’m really scared when I think back to that day the authorities came to crack down on our village,” she said yesterday. ... Pho said villagers had been left without farmland and wanted to return to plant cassava but wasn’t sure if authorities were building a military base in the area, as reported by the Post in February. ... Prior to the eviction, villagers had been locked in a dispute with the company Casotim. ...

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