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| Youth volunteers depart Phnom Penh last month to take part in a government-initiated land measurement program. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post |
Friday, 03 August 2012
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post
Nineteen families from Pursat province’s Prangil commune, plagued by a long-running land dispute with developer Pheapimex, are in despair now that student volunteer surveyors cannot help them reclaim land they say is rightfully theirs.
Villager Tes Chhieng Ly said that the residents would be forced to take protests to higher levels, after their plans to plead for help from student volunteers measuring their land were thwarted by Wednesday’s policy backflip by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
“Now, we don’t know what to do because volunteering youths are told that they have no obligation … we seem hopeless,” Chhieng Ly said.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday revealed he had revised his land titling program – announced in June – which aimed to alleviate land disputes by employing over 2,000 university students, at $7 a day, to demarcate villagers’ land in state forests, former timber concessions and economic land concessions.
The amendment means students will no longer measure disputed land and has prolonged the original six-month timeframe of the project.
However, when contacted by the Post yesterday, government spokesmen Phay Siphan and Press and Quick Reaction Unit spokesman Ek Tha both said they had no further details on the program revision or how and when it would be implemented.
His announcement contradicts what Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim declared in June – that student workers would indeed be posted to areas where “plenty of land conflicts have occurred”.
About 12,000 families are tangled in land disputes on a Pheapimex economic land concession that extends over both Pursat and Kampong Chhang provinces and covers over 315,000 hectares.
7 comments:
flip flopping hun sen eating his own tail.
Hun Sen 's words is law of the land .
But YEAY PHOU is above Hun Sen . She holds Hun Sen secret about PISETH
Pilika affair . She has used it effectively to blackmail Hun Sen for family interest
whenever and whereever she want to .
these hun sen's gangs are good in harming cambodians
This is how Cambodian jungle law is-
thx. to ah HUN SEN "WIN-WIN policy" What a jerk!
Wake-up CPP supporters, stop being brain-washed.
All of you student volunteer surveyors please go home! You are not helping Cambodian people and the nation please just go home and stop wasting your time because Cambodian people don't have much time with all of you and without land these Cambodian people will die or go to slave in neighboring countries!
Go home! Stop standing or fucking around looking good with all smiling face! Cambodian farmers have not thing to smile about when AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave robbed their land and their life to live as human!
all you idiots students stop wasting your time and state's money doing nothing. you all been used by Hun Sen for propaganda for his own profit and you all don't even know it. all you student are not helping anybody.
Hun Sen wasting the state's money on students for his won benefit instead of using $7/day on teachers in rural areas to teach poor children. why not spend a little money on poor children's education? what a waste and backward priority Hen Sen is.
Yeay Phu is nothing...she is a front for Hun Sen and family. Dumb people and the idiot press media don't know the truth or dare not say the truth. They always blaming things on yeay Phu and Ly Yong Phat...blah...but the fact is all those people working for Hun Sen And family. they are only the front for blame, scapegoats..to divert attention from Hun Sen and Family. Come On wake up people.
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