Concerns over ID Poor Card confiscations in Cambodia

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More than 50 families travelled to Stung Treng provincial hall yesterday to file complaints about withdrawn  ID Poor Cards. The villagers came from Anlong Phe commune, Thala Borivat district, in Stung Treng. Local villager, Un Phaly , told Khmer Times yesterday  that she joined the protest to ask for intervention from provincial authories to get  back  the cards that were withdrawn.

 

She confirmed that the ID Poor is very important for her family, and that she has used the card for medical treatment four times since she received it almost one year ago. Another villager, Choeun Keun, said that he didn’t know why the commune chief confiscated the cards, because the commune authorities did not tell them beforehand.

 

Anlong Phe commune chief Eun Khen said that about 100  people in the commune have the cards,  and that he was following up on instructions from the provincial governor to confiscate some of them.

 

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