Cambodia’s Deadly Land Grab Battle
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In Cambodia, disputes over land are getting increasingly violent as state authorities and private companies use armed forces to attack civilians working to protect arable land and forest. Private firms control nearly one-quarter of Cambodia’s surface area and the Ministry of Environment has signed over 10% of the national conservation areas to private plantations. With little or no public consultation or environmental assessments, land concessions by the government have affected more than 400,000 Cambodians in 12 provinces. While recent high-profile attacks have intimidated activists against land grabbing, most of them remain unyielding in the battle to gain land back to their communities.