
Security Guard Shot Dead in Clash With Kampot Land Claimants
Villagers allegedly shot dead a plantation’s security guard with a homemade gun this week amid an escalating dispute that has seen houses burned to the ground in Kampot province.
Villagers allegedly shot dead a plantation’s security guard with a homemade gun this week amid an escalating dispute that has seen houses burned to the ground in Kampot province.
Six representatives of villagers involved in a long-running land dispute with a sugar company in Koh Kong have been summoned for questioning again by the provincial court over disputed allegations brought by tycoon Heng Huy.
Residents of a village in Koh Kong province rallied for the release of their village guard who made a death threat against a provincial deputy governor amid a land dispute.
Defense and government lawyers, and even the judge, exchanged fiery accusations over alleged prejudgement, criminal intentions, lack of evidence and use of a controversial ethnic slur in a tense first trial hearing against labor leader Rong Chhun on Friday.
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