Pursat Villagers Get No More Compensation
A representative of the Try Pheap Group said Tuesday that villagers in Pursat province who attempted to march to a public forum on Monday to ask authorities to intervene in a land dispute would not receive any further compensation after losing the right to the land they say they have farmed since 1996. Police and military police blocked about 200 people from entering a pagoda in Veal Veng district’s Anlong Reap commune, at which provincial, commune and village officials were hosting a forum where the villagers hoped to have their complaint heard. On Tuesday, the Try Pheap Group, which has leased parts of the economic land concession back to the farmers, said it would not bow to the villagers’ requests that the land be returned to them. … The land concession, granted to two Try Pheap subsidiaries in 2011 for rubber and pepper plantations, covers 8,000 hectares, 2,000 of which are now being leased by the farmers. …
Aun Pheap
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