Deadline for 10,000 people by next Tuesday
Lakeside eviction deadline set Friday, March 4, 2011
BUTH REAKSMEY KONGKEA AND KHOUTH SOPHAK CHAKRYA
Some 10,000 people living at the Boeung Kak lakeside have been given a deadline of next week to leave their homes or be forcibly removed, raising the prospect of what could be the largest single forced eviction in the Kingdom’s recent history.
In a letter dated March 2, Daun Penh district governor Sok Sambath said the villagers would be forcibly evicted if they do not leave their homes voluntarily by next Tuesday.
“In case you fail to heed this announcement, the authorities will take strict measures and actions to push the villagers to leave the Boeung Kak area,” the letter states.
“The authorities will not be responsible for the loss of your property in case your homes are removed.”
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Local developer Shukaku Inc, owned by ruling party senator Lao Meng Khin, received a 99-year lease in 2007 to develop the lake and has since partnered with China's Inner Mongolia Erdos Hung Investment Co in June on the project in a joint venture. The 4,000 families were offered as compensation: $ 8,500 per not house or a new house outside of Phnom Penh and $ 500 "It is important
Whether their homes are big or small because the government has set the payments at $ 8.500 million riel or two, "she said.
well equal or equally bad, 8,500 dollars per house?
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