Kreung Tola, a prominent coordinator for the Indigenous People Network in Mondulkiri province, is currently living and doing business in Lam Me village of Pech Chreada district’s Bousra commune.
Mondulkiri provincial Military Police have summoned three members of the Bunong indigenous community in Sokdum commune’s Laoka village of Sen Monorom town to appear on May 19 over accusations that they disregarded the court ruling and used violence and made death threats against a local property owner.
The Mondulkiri provincial Department of Culture and Fine Arts will organise an event to celebrate indigenous cultures on April 11-12 at Phnom Dos Kramom hill in Sen Monorom town’s Sokdom commune. The event is open to the public and everyone is welcome to attend and learn more about the cultures of ethnic minorities in Cambodia in order to help preserve them, the department stated.
The Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province is still under threat from poaching, trapping and logging, so it remains important to educate people and raise their awareness of the 2020-2024 five-year plans designed to protect it, said provincial Department of Environment director Keo Sopheak.
Mondolkiri provincial governor Thong Savon told district governors and commune chiefs in the province to take all possible measures to prevent the unauthorised splitting of plots of land for sale and illegal construction.