“Land-row vow sows doubts and hope”, 2 September 2014

The parliamentary commission on human rights has promised villagers from four provinces embroiled in long-running land disputes that their problems will be solved in the next month, community representatives and a ruling party lawmaker said…Villagers from Lorpeang in Kampong Chhnang province locked in a dispute with politically linked KDC International were told that their woes would be over within a week. The intervention of lawmakers is the latest development in a seemingly re-energised effort to tackle the plethora of festering disputes in the Kingdom that was kick-started by Prime Minister Hun Sen…The promise to the villagers – who had trekked to Phnom Penh to seek a solution directly from Hun Sen – came after the government awarded land titles to hundreds of Kratie villagers…ending a years-long dispute…“Settling the matter within a week, unless it is settled with force like before, and settling the matter by offering real justice [in that time], will be impossible,”…[a community representative] said…