Residents tell tycoon to back off
Families protesting encroachment onto their land by a tycoon who is expanding a road in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district filed a complaint to the Prime Minister’s cabinet and the Municipal Court on Tuesday. On Friday, employees working for tycoon Thong Sarath demolished fences on eight properties in Boeung Tompun commune’s Tnout Chrum village. The affected villagers then rejected an offer of compensation made by Thong Sarath during a press conference on Tuesday to compensate them 300,000 [about US$73] riels each and build them new fences, arguing the proposed new fences fell inside their existing plots of land.
