Vietnamese military-held ELCs in R’kiri slashed according to government

Four Vietnamese military-controlled land concessions in Ratanakkiri province were downsized to a fraction of their original acreage as part of a government audit of land leased to private companies, officials said yesterday, amid opposition criticism of the concessions.

The economic land concessions, all joint ventures between the Vietnamese military and Cambodian investors, originally covered almost 40,000 hectares of Cambodian territory.

But Soy Sona, director of the Ratanakkiri provincial agriculture department, yesterday said that the four concessions – Rama Khmer, Chea Chanrith, Veasna Investment and Dai Dong Duong – were cut to a tenth of their size in late 2015.

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