The government failed to consult with landowners who lost parts of their land to the divisive border, the Paris-based president of Cambodia’s Border Committee (CBC) claimed.
“It is illegal under national and international law. Only absolutely communist countries do things like this,” Sean Pengse told VOA Khmer, and also slammed the National Assembly, calling its lifting of opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s parliamentary immunity “undemocratic”. The Council of Ministers, however, dismissed Sean Pengse’s concerns in a statement Tuesday. “It is not true that the border markers were planted illegally because landowners were not informed. Border land is not recognised as privately owned land,” the statement read. Land titles in the area were never issued, the statement continued, because the precise border was never clear.
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