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| Residents threatened with eviction from the Boeung Kak lake area protest outside City Hall in Phnom Penh last Friday. (Photo by: Sovan Philong) |
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
Resident of the Boeung Kak lakeside said yesterday that they would organise protests if a meeting scheduled for today with Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Kep Chuktema did not achieve a resolution to their alternative development plan for families threatened with eviction.
City Hall on Monday issued a letter confirming the meeting between Kep Chuktema and five villager representatives to discuss a request for the allocation of 15 hectares of land for villagers at the site of a commercial and residential development project on the Boeung Kak lakeside.
Huot Muth Dy, a resident of Village 20 in Daun Penh district’s Srah Chak commune, said that she hopes the meeting will end in a victory for potentially displaced villagers.
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