Questioning begins in two Boeng Kak court cases

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned two residents of the Boeng Kak lake community to appear for questioning today and Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit filed against them by City Hall, a court official said yesterday. The families of the accused have been left out of a plan to grant land titles to some 800 Boeng Kak households who were facing eviction to make way for a real estate project of Shukaku Inc, a private firm headed by CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin…