NGOs Criticize Flouted Land Grant Ban

20 June 2012
Radio Free Asia
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
Ban / ban on land concessions / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Hun Sen / invest / land / Land concessions / land disputes / land reform / land transfers / NGOs / Ouch Leng / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Private Companies / Radio Free Asia (RFA) / RFA / rubber plantations / State-owned land / subdecrees

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has given approval to grant state-owned land to three private companies despite issuing a temporary ban on land concessions, drawing criticism from local NGOs concerned about increasingly frequent land disputes in the country. Copies of three subdecrees obtained by RFA showed that Hun Sen approved a total of over 21,000 hectares (80 square miles) of land to be handed over to three companies to invest in rubber plantations. … Ouch Leng, land reform project coordinator for the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the three land transfers contradicted the temporary ban issued by Hun Sen. …

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-concessions-06202012182023.html