Pursat land dispute leads to destruction
Villagers in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district, locked in an ongoing land dispute with local tycoon Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co Ltd, claimed yesterday that security forces and environmental officers opened fire and tried to burn down their houses and plantations on Tuesday after accusing them of living on state land. “Police protecting Try Pheap’s company and environmental officers came to burn our crops and houses, but they [successfully] burned only three plantations … they had not burned houses yet [because] people were stopping them,” said Phan Channa, 50, whose farm was destroyed in the incident. …
May Titthara
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