PM institutes land concessions moratorium
Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued an immediate and indefinite moratorium on the granting of new economic land concessions and called for a review of all existing concessions, a regulation signed by the premier yesterday states. Dated to an April 27 Council of Ministers’ meeting, the new regulation specifically threatens the seizure of concessions that are left undeveloped along with a range of other transgressions. “For the companies that have already received permission in principle from the royal government, but have not … developed on the land, have been doing commercial logging, invaded additional land, sold off parts of their concession land, conducted illegal exploitation [for minerals], or grabbed additional land off people and communities, the Royal Government will seize back all those economic land concessions,” the regulation states. …
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