About 400 families from Svay Rieng province’s Tras commune, Romeas Hek district, say they have yet to receive assistance from the government or NGOs in a land dispute with a rubber company, despite having filed a complaint with local authorities. “I heard representatives from the company claiming that Samdech Hun Sen had already given them the land, but I don’t believe what they said,” villager representative Yea Yeng said Sunday. The Tras commune residents have accused the Peam Chaing Rubber Company of seizing 400 hectares of cassava and cashew-nut farms as part of a 3,960-hectare planned rubber plantation, the families filed a complaint on December 21. Government officials claim the villagers have been living illegally on state land.
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