More land encroachment claims in Ubon Ratchathani, Trang and Buri Ram

Sommai reported on behalf of a working team about a recent inquiry into over 1,486 rai of land in the middle of the Mul River in Muang district’s tambon Kud Lad.
The land used to be for villagers’ common use for livestock, until title deeds were issued in 2008 for 46 plots, he said.
The probe revealed a suspicious survey procedure was used, with the land divided into 46 plots, each covered up to 50 rai, to avoid the need to get permission from the provincial governor for title deeds to be issued.
Sommai said Ubon Ratchathani governor has set up a committee to check on the issuing of the deeds, which will be revoked if wrongdoing is found.
He said the committee’s probe results should be out this week.
Meanwhile, in Kantrang district in Trang province, villagers in tambon Koh Libong yesterday urged state agencies to check how a private company got “Nor Sor 3 Kor” land title deeds for 12 plots covering 400 rai, which were turned into a shrimp farm.
The group said half of this land overlaps with blocks belonging to 30 families, who have documents and receipts from annual land tax payment to the Koh Libong Tambon Administrative Organisation.
The group said they would ask the National Council for Peace and Order for help and that they would block the entrances to villages so investors could not encroach on more lands, if their calls for justice were ignored. In Buri Ram, 100 villagers in tambon Nong Krating called for Lam Plai Mas district chief Jareuk Lhaoprasert to inspect a cadastral survey of the 500-rai Khok Nong Wian public forest for the issue of more illegitimate land documents.
They claimed investors and villagers encroached on 100 rai of this land for plantations. Jareuk said he would set up a committee to probe the case and inspect the scene next week.