Villagers may get land titles

26 February 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Land / Land tenure and land titling
Andoung III / Bakan district / farming / handicapped soldiers / land-titling process / local authorities / Mines and Energy / Minister of Industry / Phnom Kravanh / Pin Syli / Pursat / Pursat residents / retired / social land concession / state land / student land measurers / Suy Sem / Touch Sambor / villager

Representatives of 171 Pursat families who claim to have been unfairly left out of the government’s land-titling process said they have reached a tentative agreement with the minister of Industry, Mines and Energy to continue farming on the Bakan district land they have occupied for years. Pin Syli, a villager from Andoung III, said he and about 150 people met with minister Suy Sem yesterday while he was distributing titles to other Pursat residents and lodged their complaint. ... The families say they were passed over for titling in November after student land measurers said the areas had been slated as a social land concession for retired and handicapped soldiers. ...

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