Gem miners protest in Ratanakkiri
About 200 villagers gathered in Ratanakkiri’s provincial capital of Banlung town on 26 October, calling for a resolution to a longstanding land dispute in the province’s gem-rich Bakeo district.
In 2013, a man named Heng Socheat sued five village representatives from the district’s Keh Chung commune, alleging they had been squatting on 186 hectares of land he bought at an unknown date.
