SRP MPs request to delay the planting of border post no. 270 located in Anh-chanh village, Chey Chauk commune, Borey Chulsa district, Takeo province

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Subject: Request to delay the planting of border post no. 270 located in Anh-chanh village, Chey Chauk commune, Borey Chulsa district, Takeo province

Based on the subject above, we, the undersigned members of Parliament, request that the Royal Government delays the planting of border post no. 270 located in Anh-chanh village, Chey Chauk commune, Borey Chulsa district, Takeo province, because this border post that is currently being built by the Cambodia-Vietnam border committee is located inside Cambodian territories and it leads to the loss of several tens of hectares of rice fields belonging to Cambodian farmers in Borey Chulsa district.

Farmers who own rice fields in Borey Chulsa have protested once already about the planting of stakes at border post no. 270, claiming that they were planted on their rice fields, however, there was no resolution.

In fact, the planting of border posts 270 is located on rice field lands belonging to Cambodian farmers, not along the borderline as stipulated in the official 1:100,000-scale 1952 maps which were internationally recognized between 1963 and 1969.

Therefore, we, the representatives of the people, request the government to delay the planting of border post no. 270 located in Anh-chanh village, Chey Chauk commune, Borey Chulsa district, Takeo provinc, and request for a new survey based on the correct coordinates to ensure that Cambodian farmers will not lose their rice fields – a heritage from their ancestors since long ago.

Done in Phnom Penh, 27 May 2010