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Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Thursday, 19 May 2011
"Residents have reduced their demands for 15 hectares of land, set aside from the 133-hectare development, down to 10 hectares."
Residents facing eviction in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak lake development sent a request to the city on Thursday asking for the establishment of a commission to measure plots of land they think could solve the problem.
The request comes amid increased pressure on authorities to resolve a standoff between a local developer and thousands of impoverished residents who refuse to make way for an extensive commercial and residential property project.
Resident representative Tep Vanny told VOA Khmer on Friday the community had submitted a request asking for city authorities and the Ministry of Land Management’s cadastre office to measure plots of land under a new compensation plan.
Residents have reduced their demands for 15 hectares of land, set aside from the 133-hectare development, down to 10 hectares, said Ly Srey Mom, another village representative. Under that scheme, 744 plots of land would be established for 1,500 families, she said.
“We detailed the completion of our land plots and sent this to the city,” she said. “We want to talk with the city representatives and end land disputes that have taken place over four years with no resolution.”
The city has so far not responded to a May 9 request for a meeting, despite numerous protests by the residents, who say a buyout package from the developer, Shukaku, Inc., is too little. Last month, police clashed with resident protesters in front of city hall, injuring several and briefly detaining a number of them.
Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema has already promised residents the city would measure land plots, but that has not yet taken place.
Meanwhile, the World Bank, which was reprimanded by an internal investigation for failing to title the people living around the lake under a titling program, issued a statement this week calling on both parties to “reach a resolution.”
The bank said it had been assured the government was “taking a number of steps to improve resettlement processes more generally in Cambodia.”
Ly Srey Mom said the World Bank titling project had failed residents around the lake, so the bank now had a duty to support them, which would provide “transparency and justice.”
3 comments:
Man made disaster by lok ta hoon cen. He'll do anything his way, never listen to voice the people and he wants them to vote for him during the next election by threatening, intimidation and the force of guns.
You have to vote him or die. What a fine and good example leader he is to Cambodia. [sarcasm]
This was from CPP Yuon operations and administration under the dumbest Hun Sen. Hun Sen did not proved his education level because he was a son of peasant family who used to serve as Khmer Rouges and then fled to Vietnam after he was shot in one of his eyes during during the war and met with his Yuon wife falsely named Bun Rany (Cambodian name). Later dumb idiot Hun Sen came back with his Communist Vietnamese comrades and armies to invade Cambodia and captured Phnom Penh easily. Can you seen how dumb and blind Hun Sen was? Hun Sen did not have experiences to lead Cambodia when he was purposely and illegally installed as a Crime (Prime) Minister by Communist Hanoi masters in Vietnam after a form PM Pen Sovan was ousted and put in jail in Hanoi, Vietnam. Former PM Pen Sovan did not allowed illegal Vietnamese people to enter Cambodian territory and had other political problem with Communist Vietnamese masters in Hanoi. Hun Sen has been using Communist Vietnamese masters or leaders and CPP Yuon comrades as his guiders or guidance or guides for more than three decades.
Khmer/Cambodian people have already known that Hun Sen talked nonsense or talk rubbish like a Hanoi jailer or prisoner. His CPP Yuon comrades and communist Hanoi masters have been using him as their strategies to over take everything from Cambodia to Vietnam, secretly stealing the money ($) before reaching out to poop and innocent Cambodian/Khmer people (before donors blamed Hun Sen and Cambodian government instead of Communist Hanoi crooks/thieves or masters in Vietnam and CPP Yuon officials like Sok An, Hor Nam Hong, etc).
Cambodia has been beyond the problems coming the dumbest PM Hun Sen, CPP Yuon comrades under the secret control of Hanoi masters.
Cambodian people at home and abroad including the international communities and the UN can not stand those Vietnamese crooks or masters and Hun Sen any more. It is really out of control and beyond the serious issues about CPP Vietnamese officials in Phnom Penh, Communist Hanoi masters/thieves and Hun Sen as well as Hun Sen's Vietnamese wife.
this boy should stay in school, not ditching school, ok!
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