3,365 cannabis plants burned on Bayang Kor Mountain in Takeo
On 2 February 2025 Takeo provincial governor Vie Samnang led police, military police and district forces to seven illegal plantations on the Bayang Kor range, cutting and burning 3,365 plants across about 1,890 square metres and removing six water tanks. No arrests were reported.
Takeo provincial governor Vie Samnang, who chairs the provincial unified command, led a joint force
on the morning of Sunday 2 February 2025 to illegal cannabis plots on Bayang Kor Mountain in
Kirivong district.[1][2]
Police, military police, provincial military operations troops and Kirivong district
administration officers cut and burned plants at seven sites at Changkan rock on the Bayangkor
range in Prey Thom village, Preah Bat Choan Chum commune.[1][2]They destroyed 3,365 marijuana
plants covering about 1,890 square metres and removed six water tanks used to irrigate the
fields.[1][2]
Neither source names anyone arrested or identifies who planted the crops.[1][2]
Photos and video
Plants burned during the Takeo mountain eradication, credited to Khmer Times.Photo details
Khmer Times briefly said the governor would cut and burn "7 illegal marijuana plants" before giving the 3,365-plant total; the larger figure is used here.
No cultivators were named and no arrests were reported.
Poste Kh's February article adds national Anti-Drug Department statistics for January 2025 that are not part of this raid.
On 14 February 2025 Oral district military police and Kampong Speu provincial military police raided three one-hectare farms in Keng Raing Valley, burning 7,755 marijuana plants. Officers are searching for the cultivators; no one was arrested during the operation.
Police destroyed thousands of marijuana seedlings spread across eight sites covering about 2,000 square metres on Toteung mountain in Takeo's Kiri Vong district, seizing six irrigation water tanks. No growers were arrested after they fled before police arrived, continuing a cycle of replanting and eradication reported since 2019.
Police in Mondulkiri province destroyed more than a hectare of marijuana in Sen Monorom City on 4 April 2021 and seized and destroyed about 50,000 plants weighing nearly 400 kilogrammes. The plantation owner fled before officers arrived and faces a search and up to five years in prison if convicted.
Police and military police raided five marijuana farms in the foothills near the Vietnamese border in Takeo's Kirivong district on 30 January 2021, burning more than 20,000 plants. The owners fled as officers moved in, and a manhunt followed.
