Officials own land, claim villagers

16 July 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Land / Land tenure and land titling
Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Choam Ksan district / Choam Ksan District governor / DARPO / Disputed Land / Drug and Aids Research and Prevention Organisation / human rights abuses / Kantuot commune / land conflicts / Land dispute / land titling / Lor Chan / Muol Mab / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / Preah Vihear Provincial Cadastral Commission / Prime Minister Hun Sen / protests / RCAF / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / SLCs / social land concessions / Sok Hay / Sre Am commune

Local cadastral land officials, a district governor and RCAF personnel all own plots of a social land concession in Preah Vihear originally intended to be distributed to poor villagers, local rights group Adhoc alleged.

In 2007, the government granted 556 hectares of land in Choam Ksan district’s Kantuot and Sre Am communes to the now-defunct Drug and Aids Research and Prevention Organisation (DARPO). …

According to villagers and Adhoc, the provincial authority last week announced that temporary land titles had been awarded to a number of officials holding the disputed land after it was measured by student volunteers. …

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