Villagers fear eviction looms

Villagers who fear eviction from their homes of 30 years in Kratie province travelled to Phnom Penh yesterday to plead for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s intervention. Fifteen representatives of 88 families who live close to Kratie Airport, in Kratie town’s Srei Padav village, said provincial authorities had warned them in January that they had until February 28 to move from their homes or be evicted. Representative Soum Sovanny, 47, said families were yet to be evicted, but lived in fear of being forcibly removed and their houses being demolished. …

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