HE Gives Land Titles to Families
Prime Minister HE yesterday announced that he had instructed Takeo provincial governor Lay Vannak to give land titles to 31 families after they had asked him via Facebook to intervene in their long-running land dispute with the provincial department of commerce.

The dispute started in 2007 when the commerce department issued an order to demolish 5.1 hectares of rice fields in Roka commune.

“I got this suggestion and have discussed this case already. This evening [yesterday] the governor will prepare the documents and land title for these residents,” Mr. HE wrote in reply to their message.

Soun Sophal, a representative of the families, told Khmer Times that he was grateful for the prime minister’s intervention in saving the land they had farmed since 1986.

“After having the conflict, we used to summit complaints to provincial authorities but received no solution. But today Samdech HE announced that the land titles would be given to us. We are very happy and would like to say thank so much to Samdech.”
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No doubt these families will find a way to say thank you when the time comes.

Well over 90% of the Cambodian people are better off than they were a decade ago. At least 20% of Cambodian
people are conspicuously better off; there are piles of builders' sand and truckloads of delivered bricks everywhere
you look in and around Siem Reap.

The bad news is that for a minority of rural people, life is far worse - people are being booted off land they have farmed (and thought
they more-or-less owned for many years - even for two or three decades.

This does NOT seem to be much of a political issue, because it affects a minority of people. Poor people, too.