Villager shot by soldier at site of land dispute

10 November 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crime and law enforcement / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development
Land dispute / Lumphat district / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber company DM Group

Military police in Ratanakiri province arrested an RCAF officer Monday evening for shooting a 20-year-old villager who was riding his motorcycle across land at the center of a long-running land dispute between ethnic minority villagers and rubber company DM Group, officials said yesterday. RCAF second lieutenant Sin Vanny, 50, was moonlighting as a security guard for DM Group in Lumphat district when he shot Im Den in the leg as he was riding to his farm, said district governor Pao Ham Phan…