Families Watch as Land Flattened for Road
Cambodia Daily | 22 April 2016
Helmeted state security guards on Thursday blocked landowners from entering their plots in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district as heavy machinery razed crude structures and leveled the earth to make way for a hotly disputed road construction project.
Members of about 10 of the roughly 200 families affected by the development arrived in the morning to defend the land—which sits on a 100-meter-wide strip between National Road 6A and the site of a planned satellite city, for which hundreds of families have already been displaced—and demand fair compensation for their loss.
But they could do little more than watch the bulldozers at work.
The municipal government has defended the road project as a necessary infrastructure upgrade that will benefit locals, but residents are skeptical, saying it will mainly serve the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC), which has close ties to the government and is developing the 387-hectare satellite city.
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