Choeung Sopheap (aka Yeay Phu, aka Lao Meng Khin's wife, aka Bun Rany Hun Xen's crony) can be seen on the front row of this photo with Kep Chuktema (Photo: Koh Santepheap)Thursday, 09 September 2010
May Titthara
The Phnom Penh Post
MORE than 200 armed villagers yesterday occupied a rice field to prevent a company owned by Choeung Sopheap, the wife of Cambodian People’s Party senator Lao Meng Khin, from digging a channel through their rice fields in Pursat province’s Krakor district.
Sok Charoeun, a representative of the villagers, who live in Ansa Chombok commune, said the Pheapimex investment company had sent bulldozers in to begin digging the channel on Tuesday evening.
“Now villagers are ready to fight against the company, and they are sitting on that land to wait for the company,” he said yesterday. “If they come to clear the land today, the villagers don’t have guns but they do have knives and axes.”
He said that if villagers were made to give up all the land granted to the company, they would “lose everything”.
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Sok Charoeun, a representative of the villagers, who live in Ansa Chombok commune, said the Pheapimex investment company had sent bulldozers in to begin digging the channel on Tuesday evening.
“Now villagers are ready to fight against the company, and they are sitting on that land to wait for the company,” he said yesterday. “If they come to clear the land today, the villagers don’t have guns but they do have knives and axes.”
He said that if villagers were made to give up all the land granted to the company, they would “lose everything”.
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