KDC families want compensation deal revoked

24 June 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Government / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Ministries and other national bodies / Provincial and local governments / Social development
Hul Chanthor / Hun Sen / KDC company / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Surya Subedi / Suy Sem / Ta Ches commune / UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a court complaint Monday to demand their agreement with the company be nullified. In April, 32 families from Ta Ches commune in Kompong Tralach district accepted a compensation deal with the KDC company, which is owned by Mr. Sem’s wife Chea Kheng, after the provincial government established a joint committee with the company to try and settle the dispute. …

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