The Phnom Penh Post
RESIDENTS of Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district said Sunday that military police visited their village over the weekend with the aim of arresting two men involved in a land row with the Heng Development Company.
Residents said the raid occurred one day after about 200 police violently disrupted a protest in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh villa; however, the chief of the military police in Kandal Stung district denied the allegation.
About 150 villagers from Kandal Stung and Takhmao districts gathered in the capital on Friday to protest plans by the Heng Development Company to develop an 878-hectare expanse of disputed rice fields that they say currently provide for 2,513 families. Villager representatives say the families have been farming the land since 1986, but district and provincial officials have said that the company purchased the land legally in 1996.
Police broke up the protest at around 12pm on Friday, arresting six villagers.
Residents said the raid occurred one day after about 200 police violently disrupted a protest in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh villa; however, the chief of the military police in Kandal Stung district denied the allegation.
About 150 villagers from Kandal Stung and Takhmao districts gathered in the capital on Friday to protest plans by the Heng Development Company to develop an 878-hectare expanse of disputed rice fields that they say currently provide for 2,513 families. Villager representatives say the families have been farming the land since 1986, but district and provincial officials have said that the company purchased the land legally in 1996.
Police broke up the protest at around 12pm on Friday, arresting six villagers.
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