Real estate boom v. land grabbing in Cambodia: A typical example
Check out this video report by Bloomberg to get a feel of what the real estate boom is like in Cambodia.
It’s true. Marc Faber, the founder of Marc Faber Ltd, is also interested.
The boom is not without disadvantages. The rich and powerful has taken advantage of the situation where many poor people do not have land titles. They take the people’s land, most often by use of force. If you speak Khmer, take a listen to this chunk of report by Radio Free Asia (RFA) Jul 30.
WARNING!!! Be prepared to fight back your tears!
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If you don’t, you can read this quick summary i wrote. A woman has been struggling to seek justice since 2007 in a land dispute in Preah Vihear province. She went to the National Assembly, which told her to go to the Ministry of Interior. The ministry told her to go to court. She also has sought help from the Cambodian premier, without any luck just yet. (These are common approaches for the poor in Cambodia when it comes to land grabbing.)
Her daughter in law was shot dead with her little baby being breast-fed in her hand as she refused to leave her home. Her son has been detained in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar Prison. All she wants now is to have her son released so he can come and take care of his four children who the old woman has, in Phnom Penh, been begging food from people to feed. Two sons, a son in law and a nephew of hers were jailed in the dispute.
She claimed it was the authority who moved her family from Anlong Veng, Battambang to Preah Vihear and that it was also them who forced her to leave her land she had lived on for more than 8 years. (Art. 18 of the land law allows for legal ownership of any vacant or not-owned land to people who have lived there for more than five years.)
Just a typical example of how real estate boom is affecting the impoverished and disadvantaged in Cambodia.
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The poor always suffer from the land-grabbing by the rich and powerful.
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