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Cambodian villagers to challenge farmland eviction

In the Cambodian province of Kampong Speu, west of the capital Phnom Penh, villagers say they will continue to fight against their eviction from farmland, after a week in which seven people were seriously injured in violent clashes with police.
A 2009 Supreme Court ruling awarded 65 hectares of land in the province to a Taiwanese businessmen.
Last week, 300 police were sent to Kampong Speu to enforce that ruling.
Cambodian rights groups are outraged, saying the and was sold illegally and its sale deprives around 90 families of subsistence farming.

 

Presenter: Liam Cochrane
Speaker: Phung Chhiev Kek, President of the Cambodian human rights group LICADHO