Villagers request intervention in land dispute

26 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Aid and development / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / European Union aid / Government / Land / Land policy and administration / Land tenure and land titling / Multilateral development assistance / Provincial and local governments / Public land lease / United Nations / World Bank
European Union aid / Koh Kong Special Economic Zone / Ly Yong Phat / U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights / World Bank

Villagers from Koh Kong province delivered petitions in Phnom Penh on Friday seeking international intervention in their land dispute with powerful businessman and CPP senator Ly Yong Phat, alleging that his Koh Kong Special Economic Zone (SEZ) was encroaching on their farmland. Five representatives of the 135 families who say they have lost their farmland to the massive industrial development, which was demarcated by concrete fences in January, delivered petitions to the Office of the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Union and the World Bank. …

 Khuon Narim
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