In Washington today, attendees of the World Bank’s Annual Conference
on Land and Poverty will hear a flattering account of Prime Minister Hun
Sen’s ambitious project to furnish nearly half-a-million Cambodian
families with new private land titles just in time for July’s national
elections.
But in a small village in rural Kompong Chhnang province, local
farmers are among a growing list of communities worried that the project
is cheating them of their land rights.
According to villagers and officials in Rolea Ba’ier district, two
separate survey teams showed up in Kraing Leav village earlier this
month only days apart to measure the same 45 hectares of rice paddy
being tended by 76 families.
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