Half a million Cambodians affected by land grabs: rights group
More than half a million Cambodians have been affected by land conflicts involving the government since 2000, with more than 2,000 families across the country subjected to largely violent land grabs during the first few months of this year, local rights group Licadho said Tuesday. The number of people involved in state-related land conflicts in the past 13 years surpassed the 500,000 mark last month, Licadho said in a statement, calling on the government to end land grabs. Some 2,246 families had been affected by “a renewed wave of violent land grabbing” since the beginning of 2014 in provinces the group monitors, it said. …
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-04012014170055.html
