Families near airport push for land titles
About 600 families living next to Phnom Penh International Airport urged the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation on January 23 to help speed up the process of giving them titles to their land. While submitting a petition to the SSCA on January 23, resident representative Chray Nim said the Land Management Ministry could not give residents their land titles before receiving location plans from the secretariat. Ms. Nim, representing those living in Por Senchey district’s Kakap commune, explained that residents were anxious about the delay as they feared that living without land titles makes them vulnerable to land grabs. “We will wait and see if the secretariat will still prolong the process and until then, we will continue to protest,” she said. “We won’t let this go on until after the elections. If our people have yet to receive the titles, we still fear eviction and one day, our land may be taken away for some sort of development. We don’t know.
