Preah Vihear families seek top-level intervention
Families continuing to defy eviction orders in Preah Vihear fear police and authorities will use violence to remove them from their homes this week, villagers told the Post yesterday. Representatives of Svay Chum village in Choam Ksan district’s Kantuot commune trekked to Phnon Penh on Friday to make a desperate plea for government intervention over the Samdech Techo land dispute. The National Authority for Preah Vihear on December 19 ordered 132 families to leave their house by this Wednesday...
