PHNOM PENH, Apr 14 , 2010 (IPS) - When villagers in Kandal province near the Cambodian capital blocked National Road 2 in early April, it was just the latest protest by rural villagers angered by yet another alleged land grab.
They had blocked the road in a bid to raise awareness about the loss of hundreds of hectares of their land to a private developer, whose bulldozers had started clearing the land in late March.
Ten of the villagers were arrested, the latest in a seemingly unending string of land evictions that have engulfed this South-east Asian country in recent years.
The problem is likely to get even worse, critics say, because the government’s moves to allocate vast tracts of land to foreign and local companies are often done without consulting locals.
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