{"id":665,"date":"2011-10-13T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adhoc-press\/?p=665"},"modified":"2011-10-13T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:09:51","slug":"villagers-seek-pms-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/villagers-seek-pms-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers seek PM’s intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 26 January 2011, Kim Yuthana<\/em><\/p>\n

About 50 representatives from four villages in Kampong Speu province protested today outside Prime Minister Hun Sen\u2019s house to seek his intervention in a land dispute with Master International Corporation Group.<\/p>\n

Protesters delivered a petition to an official at the prime minister\u2019s office stating that Kampong Speu Governor Kong Heang ordered the developer to bulldoze their land without providing them with any certified document of approval.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are asking the Premier Hun Sen to immediately stop the developer\u2019s activity, because if the developer takes our farmland, how can we make a living,\u201d said village representative Soa Phum.<\/p>\n

The protesters, representing 250 families in Kampong Speu\u2019s Phnom Srouch district, said the developer began bulldozing their farmland in December and resumed again earlier this week, accompanied by armed security guards.<\/p>\n

Soa Phum said that Phnom Srouch Governor Tep Mean visited the project without offering any help to the villagers at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authorities do not help their people, but are likely to stand behind the developer and give away our land,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Tep Mean said that Master International Corporation Group was legally granted 950 hectares of land from Kampong Speu Governor Kong Heang in 2009 for acacia and cashew plantations.<\/p>\n

Kong Heang could not be reached for comment today.<\/p>\n

He added that the developer was working only within the area granted in the land concession and had not destroyed the villagers\u2019 land.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authorities asked the villagers to point out their property so that we could issue them land titles, and many complied with our request,\u201d he said, adding that he had created a commission to negotiate with the developer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue discussions with other villagers about their needs in order to deal with them accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ouch Leng, a land programme officer with the rights group Adhoc, said there had been no resolution for villagers who continued to lose their farmland to economic land concessions granted by the government.<\/p>\n

Ean Ellen, director of Master international Corporation Group, could not be reached for comment today.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.phnompenhpost.com\/index.php\/2011012646378\/National-news\/villagers-seek-pms-intervention.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phnom Penh Post<\/p>\n

Wednesday 26 January 2011, Kim Yuthana<\/p>\n

About 50 representatives from four villages in Kampong Speu province protested today outside Prime Minister Hun Sen\u2019s house to seek his intervention in a land dispute with Master International Corporation Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unused"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adhoccambodia.org\/km\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}