Plot thickens for evictees
Scores of families in Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila community tore down a corrugated metal fence and took up temporary residence in developer Phan Imex’s unfinished Building 9 as anger over smaller-than-promised relocation plots boiled over yesterday morning. The occupation began after local and municipal authorities came to the site yesterday to measure plots of land for displaced families embroiled in the long-running land dispute. The plots became a point of contention, however, when it was discovered they were only three-by-four metres – half as big as the four-by-six-metre plots residents were promised, Borei Keila resident Chher Phan said. … Development at the site has been stalled for years after Phan Imex declared it had run out of money, and yesterday building occupier Chum Ngan said that if the development was bankrupt, the building should go to the community. …
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Stuart White
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