Police Arrest Six Villagers Accused of Fraud
Police in Battambang arrested six villagers embroiled in a land dispute with a local businessman on Wednesday after 10 other villagers accused them of defrauding families in the area, deputy provincial governor Uy Ry said yesterday. However, villagers and rights workers in Kors Kralor district said the arrests were merely designed to put pressure on the community, which has been locked in the dispute over land in Dounba commune for the past five years. The arrests came shortly after more than 1,000 families in the area made a request for student volunteers to demarcate their land under the government’s new land-titling project. …
