About 130 vendors from Kompong Cham province demonstrated at the National Assembly in Phnom Penh on Monday against plans for a new market in their district.
The protesters claimed the district’s land authority colludes with middlemen to charge $4,000 to $6,000 for stores at a proposed market in Prey Chhor district.
“We need Second Prime Minister Hun Sen to help us solve these problems,” one of the protesters said. “If the land authority wants to build a new market, let them go build it in O’Smach.”
District officials couldn’t be reached Monday. Kompong Cham Provincial Police Chief Sourn Chheangly said he wasn’t familiar with the squabble.
You Sunlong, a Hun Sen adviser, met with the protesters and asked them to wait 15 days. But protesters said they would seek a direct meeting with Hun Sen.
