Violence breaks out in land dispute with minister’s wife

A long-simmering land dispute between a group of villagers and a high-ranking minister’s wife turned violent this weekend as 10 people were injured while trying to block the KDC company from building a warehouse on contested land in Kompong Chhnang province, villagers and police said Sunday. Residents of Kompong Tralach district’s Ta Ches commune have been battling KDC—which is owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem—since 2007 over several hundred hectares of land claimed by Ms. Kheng. …

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