Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Fire victim resettlement plan axed

A resident of Tuol Kork district’s Boeung Kak 2 commune, where hundreds of homes were destroyed in a March 8 fire, stands by a stake marking her land soon after the blaze. (Photo by: Heng Chivoan)
Monday, 14 June 2010
By Khouth Sophakchakrya
The Phnom Penh Post

TUOL Kork district officials have announced the cancellation of a plan to relocate 170 families made homeless by a March 8 fire in Boeung Kak 2 commune, saying they will instead need to rebuild on smaller plots at the site of the blaze.
At a meeting between families and district officials on Friday, Thim Sam An, Tuol Kork’s deputy district governor, said that because an additional 67 families had refused to move, the city had scrapped the relocation altogether. Distribution of replacement plots will begin “soon”, he added.
Until Friday, officials had promised to move 170 families to 5-by-12-metre plots of land in Dangkor district’s Choam Chao commune.
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