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Aggrieved villagers come to Phnom Penh for protest

About 100 residents of Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district gathered at Phnom Penh’s restive Samakki Raingsey pagoda on Wednesday ahead of a planned march calling for justice in their long-running land dispute.    ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/aggrieved-villagers-come-to-phnom-penh-for-protest-103757/

Pagoda rejects city’s claims of violence

The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat Samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ...

Mench Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pagoda-rejects-citys-claims-of-violence-77350/

Pagoda rejects city’s claims of violence

The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat Samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ...

Mench Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pagoda-rejects-citys-claims-of-violence-77350/

Police block villagers’ march to Hun Sen’s house

About 100 villagers locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm from Kratie province were blocked from marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house Tuesday by hundreds of military police and municipal security guards after walking from Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda. The villagers, who ...

Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-block-villagers-march-to-hun-sens-house-65804/

Villagers blocked from marching to Hun Sen’s house

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district were blocked Friday from marching on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house to call for intervention in their ongoing land dispute. More than 20 Meanchey district security guards met the group at the gates of Samakki Raingsey pagoda, where ...

Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-blocked-from-marching-to-hun-sens-house-65565/

Villagers seek refuge in Phnom Penh pagoda again

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district embroiled in a land dispute with a plantation owner are the latest evictees to take residence in Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda. A spokesman for City Hall, which has made repeated efforts in recent months to prevent the ...

Aun Pheap and George Wright
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-seek-refuge-in-phnom-penh-pagoda-again-64942/

Phnom Penh pagoda offers haven for the marginalized

When 200 villagers from Kratie province walked into Samakki Raingsey pagoda seeking safety and shelter early this month, they weren’t the first to do so. The villagers, whose homes in Snuol district had been torched by authorities just days earlier, were walking a well-trodden path—a path ...

Mech Dara and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/author/matt-blomberg/

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