Minister meets NGOs over ongoing UDG dispute

25 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Concessions / Economic land concessions and plantations / Government / Human rights / Land / Land policy and administration / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Environment / Public land lease / Social development
Botum Sakor National Park / Ministry of Environment / NGO Forum / Say Sam Al / UDG / UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights / Union Development Group / Wan-Hea Lee

Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Thursday met with U.N. and NGO representatives to discuss the ongoing dispute between the powerful Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) and villagers in Koh Kong province who say they were kicked off their land and had their shelters torched. In February, Mr. Sam Al visited UDG—which in 2008 was granted a 45,000-hectare land concession to build a hotel, airport and golf course within the boundaries of Botum Sakor National Park. But villagers in the affected Kiri Sakor and Botum Sakor districts said they were disappointed when he failed to meet with them to hear their grievances. …

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