By Mao Sotheany
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Cambodian by Heng Soy
Battambang province is Cambodia’s most famous rice basket, however, a report indicated that people living in the Peam Ek commune, Peam Ek district, Battambang province, are facing with severe hardship because they lack land to plant rice crop.
The Peam Ek commune chief said that the lack of land for planting rice forced the villagers to work as laborers such as corn crops pickers along the Khmer-Thai border.
He indicated that people living in the Kauk Dong village are facing severe problems and some of the villagers who have whatever little rice field land they own, were forced to sell the land to cure their disease instead: “In the village of Kauk Dong, the villagers face serious hardships that are difficult to explain because some own land and some don’t. Poor people must collect “trakuon” vegetable or catch “kantes lang” insect (to eat), they also have to leave their homes to go (work) along the border.”
Eng Chhay Eang, SRP MP from Battambang province, blames the villagers’ lack of land on the large landowners who are powerful and rich and who own most of the cultivable lands.
Eng Chhay Eang said: “It’s not just the people in Kauk Dong who lack lands, in the province of Battambang, people in many villages do not own land. Even if you can see that Battambang has vast extent of lands, they are owned by the rich and powerful.”
The Peam Ek commune chief said that the lack of land for planting rice forced the villagers to work as laborers such as corn crops pickers along the Khmer-Thai border.
He indicated that people living in the Kauk Dong village are facing severe problems and some of the villagers who have whatever little rice field land they own, were forced to sell the land to cure their disease instead: “In the village of Kauk Dong, the villagers face serious hardships that are difficult to explain because some own land and some don’t. Poor people must collect “trakuon” vegetable or catch “kantes lang” insect (to eat), they also have to leave their homes to go (work) along the border.”
Eng Chhay Eang, SRP MP from Battambang province, blames the villagers’ lack of land on the large landowners who are powerful and rich and who own most of the cultivable lands.
Eng Chhay Eang said: “It’s not just the people in Kauk Dong who lack lands, in the province of Battambang, people in many villages do not own land. Even if you can see that Battambang has vast extent of lands, they are owned by the rich and powerful.”
1 comment:
Hun Sen is so happy right now. When these people die, he will give the land to Thais or his boss the Vietcong.
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