Police eviction of Sambok Chab are in Phnom Penh in June 2006 (AFP)Dara Vong
VOA Khmer
Siem Reap
23/03/2007
Authorities say 300 families in Siem Reap, the gateway city to the famed temples of Angkor Wat, face eviction.
Officials from Apsara, the government authority that takes care of the temples and tourism in the city, said Friday the land belongs to the government and the squatters must leave.
Siem Reap has seen a boom in development in recent years, and tourism to the temples is one of the strongest economic engines in the country. As a result, the city and province around it have experienced growing pains.
Some squatter houses and fences have already been knocked down to spur the move, officials said.
Officials from Apsara, the government authority that takes care of the temples and tourism in the city, said Friday the land belongs to the government and the squatters must leave.
Siem Reap has seen a boom in development in recent years, and tourism to the temples is one of the strongest economic engines in the country. As a result, the city and province around it have experienced growing pains.
Some squatter houses and fences have already been knocked down to spur the move, officials said.
3 comments:
These military are not representing Cambodian National interests. They are working as slavevery for a few individual. As an authority, they must protect the interest of people at all cost instead of listening to a few monkies.
Apsara Authority must have dealt with the land claimed by MP Son Chhay to be his in Siem Reap before moving on to evict 300 families from their land.
Did the Authority end up paying full value for the land the MP claimed to be about $3 million?
Or, has the MP lost the land the Authority claimed belonged to the State and worth less than $20,000.
Or, has the problem been quietly settled to the satisfaction of both parties, and no one needs to know?
BB
Ah Son Chay is a land graber,
period. What part of that don't
you understand?
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