General hit by links to land grabs, arrests
NGO Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO) director Chea Hean and two families have accused two-star general Chea Yothin of suing them at the Kampong Speu provincial court for defamation in a 105sqm land dispute in Phnom Sruoch district.
Hean said on Thursday that the two families and Yothin were locked in a land dispute in Chambak commune after the latter accused the families of grabbing his land.
The families sought intervention from Hean, after which Hean found out that the land Yothin had taken was located inside the Kirirom National Park which is protected by a royal decree.
“After I posted on Facebook that I would investigate the site which the families claimed Yothin had grabbed, he responded by suing me on February 25 for defamation,” he said.
Soth Koemsoeun
