Land Dispute Families Submit Complaint Over Snake Attack
Three families involved in a land dispute with a private company filed a complaint Monday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing the company’s owner, businessman Khun Sear, of waging an ongoing campaign of intimidation as he tries to force the families from their homes in Tuol Kok district. On Wednesday, a bag of poisonous cobra snakes was thrown through the window of one of the families’ homes in Boeng Kak I commune. Ly Sreang Kheng, 58, his wife, Mok Siv Hong, 51, and their son, Ly Bun Heang, believe the snake attack was an attempt on their lives by employees of the Khun Sear Import Export Company because they have refused to accept $15,000 to leave their homes. … At the court Monday, Ms. Siv Hong said that since the snake attack, the threats have continued unabated. “On Saturday, when I was getting ready to sleep I heard a group of men outside loudly saying that next they were going to throw a grenade into our house. We are living in fear that any day we may be killed, so we have come to plead with the authorities to help us,” she said. …
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