"Hundreds of villagers and town residents of Liberia`s Grand Cape Mount Country have attracted nationwide attention in their bid to recover what they say is land seized from them and turned over to a Malaysian agro-industrial concern.
A petition sent to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf`s office in January by the aggrieved people`s political representatives demanded the return of their land."
A very fair and balanced account of the dispute can be found here ;
Unsigned - Liberia : Land Grab or Development Opportunity ? 17 February 2012 at http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94882 .
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