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Cambodia has around 200 government-provided land concessions, totally 2 million hectares.
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Prime Minister Hun Sen announced last week he wanted the men arrested.
Some of Wednesday’s female protesters tore off their shirts as they faced off with riot police carrying batons and shields.
Hun Sen said Tuesday he would take back land concessions if the violence continues.
Nearly 80 land cases involved government land concessions that affected more than 30,000 families.
Sia Phearum told “Hello VOA” people are being forced off land they earned through “backbreaking” work.
Provincial Police Chief Chhoung Seanghak said police are working the case and focusing on the two guards.
Nearly 400 families were forcibly evicted from the Borei Keila site this month.
A number of Asean countries have conflicts with China over maritime territories in the South China Sea.
The group counted nearly 50 community evictions last year alone, affecting almost 12,000 families.
The letter was delivered to China, France, Russia, the UK and the United States.
Phan Imex was supposed to build 10 buildings to house evicted residents and built eight instead.
A US official said this week that Obama could participate in an Asean summit to be hosted in Cambodia in November.
Witnesses said security guards for the TTY Company opened fire with AK-47s.
Escapees climbed over the walls or jumped the metal gates of the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center Wednesday in full view of observers.
Asean countries are facing a multitude of issues which includes a dispute over the South China Sea.
Thirty-eight people remain in unlawful detention after they were seized by authorities as they protested outside City Hall this week.
The demonstrators were seized Wednesday, where they had demanded the courts release eight representatives arrested earlier this month.
Around 300 families lost their homes in the Jan. 3 forced eviction of Borei Keila.
The site, at Phnom Bath mountain, is 50 kilometers outside the capital and lacks clean water, electricity, and health care facilities.
Moek Dara is accused of abusing his post to gather hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and organizing drug trafficking.
