Prime Minister Hun Sen’s sister Hun Sinath has resigned from her job as a secretary of state over what she said was her colleagues’ fear of investigating a land dispute between villagers in Kampong Speu province and tycoon Ly Yong Phat.
Yong Phat, an ethnic Thai CPP senator and director of the Phnom Penh Sugar Company, declined to comment on Sinath’s resignation. Phnom Penh Sugar has been at the centre of the years-long land dispute since the forced evictions of hundreds of families from Yong Phat’s 8,343-hectare land concession in Kampong Speu started in February of 2010.
Source: Phnom Penh Post
Yong Phat, an ethnic Thai CPP senator and director of the Phnom Penh Sugar Company, declined to comment on Sinath’s resignation. Phnom Penh Sugar has been at the centre of the years-long land dispute since the forced evictions of hundreds of families from Yong Phat’s 8,343-hectare land concession in Kampong Speu started in February of 2010.
Source: Phnom Penh Post
