Police block villagers’ march to Hun Sen’s house

6 August 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Economic land concessions and plantations / Government / Human rights / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Provincial and local governments / Social development
Horizon Agriculture Development / Hun Sen / Sam Nal / Samakki Raingsey pagoda / Sothearos Boulevard

About 100 villagers locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm from Kratie province were blocked from marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house Tuesday by hundreds of military police and municipal security guards after walking from Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda. The villagers, who have been camped in the pagoda for two weeks while attempting to petition Mr. Hun Sen for help, eventually handed a petition to a cabinet official, who arrived at Wat Botum park after a two-hour wait. …

 Aun Pheap and George Wright
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