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OCIC bulldozing in Chroy Changvar rolls on in spite of dispute

Pech Sotheary and Ananth Baliga | Publication date 22 April 2016 | 06:35 ICT Shares  0  0

Workers use machinery to level a plot of land in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district yesterday morning.
P Hong Menea

Under the supervision of 50 security guards, construction rm Overseas Cambodia

Investment Corporation (OCIC) resumed bulldozing land on Phnom Penh’s Chroy
Changvar peninsula yesterday, despite two families laying claim to the land being cleared.

Early yesterday morning, OCIC, run by tycoon Pung Khieu Se, used 10 earthmoving
machines to clear the land in the district’s Prek Leap commune to make way for a new road
and drainage system for its planned satellite city.

However, Hul Savoeun, a 45-year-old resident of the area, said that the land belongs to her
and that she had not been compensated for it.

“If they want to build the road and drainage system, they should have a solution rst,” she
said. “Do not clear the land and rob people’s land like this.”

Chea Sophat, a representative for the communities a ected by the project, said that OCIC’s
o er of $15 per square metre was unacceptable and maintained a demand of $400 per
square metre, adding that the going rate in the area was $2,000.

e new road was being constructed to ease tra c congestion in Phnom Penh, claimed the
district o cial in charge of the construction Sen Narin
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district o cial in charge of the construction, Sen Narin.

“We have to do it even though they have not received compensation, because we have
invited them [to negotiate] many times already,” Narin said.

OCIC project manager Touch Samnang said residents’ claims of having titles for the land
were incorrect, given that “there are no land titles for that area”.
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