Deal #3554 Version #62031

Villagers have requested land titles; they reportedly have been told that receiving titles depends on their loyalty to a party (CPP) in upcoming elections; one interviewee said that “Sok Chenda, president of the youth volunteers, and Kim Lour, a CPP local official, said in a meeting [… that] if the party [was] not elected, […] all the land in the district [would] be given to the company” (http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-camp-out-protest-%E2%80%98land-grab%E2%80%99 )