Jarai man gets day in court

15 November 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
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A Ratanakkiri Provincial Court prosecutor yesterday summoned an ethnic minority Jarai man in O’Yadav district to explain to the court his allegations that local authorities had threatened to kill him for exposing a land-sale corruption racket. Romas Chhvang, 45, filed a complaint to the court at the end of October against three commune chiefs he alleges have threatened to kill him for meddling in the secret sale of 480 hectares of state forest land in Ratanakkiri to a private company…

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