PM’s advisor accuses district governor of grabbing land

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s advisor Pen Ean has sent a letter to the Interior Minister Sar Kheng, accusing Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district governor Seik Mony of grabbing state land and spirit land of indigenous people.

According to a letter sent to  Kheng yesterday, Ean said that he had visited O’Raing district in Mondulkiri province and that some indigenous people had reported to him, accusing Seik Mony, the district governor and some O’Raing district officials, who often use their power to intimidate indigenous people and conspire to systematically document state land and indigenous peoples’ land and sell them to traders.

He added that he had sent a team and lawyers to conduct further research and found that some indigenous people had built homes and lived at the foot of the mountains and along streams for a long time. However, these land had been confiscated on the pretext that it was state and not spirit land. Ean said the land was later sold to rich and powerful people who built fences.

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