Former Borei Keila villagers drive stakes demarcating plots on land near Oudong Mountain, the site of their future homes. Photograph: Pha Lina/Phnom Penh Post
Just a few weeks after her house was bulldozed at Borei Keila last January, grandmother Both Choun was told she would not be granted land at her new home, a relocation site at the foot of Kandal province’s Oudong Mountain.
The documents the 70-year-old needed to prove she was entitled to a plot at the site – compensation from Borei Keila developer Phan Imex – had been destroyed with her house.
“I felt so angry when they demolished my home and sent me here – and even angrier when they denied me land,” she told the Post last week.
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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – January 28, 2013)
