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|date=2021-05-21
|category=Enforcement
|title=Eight marijuana sites destroyed in Bayong Kor mountains; police report maps four-commune cultivation zone
|summary=Takeo provincial police destroyed marijuana plants at eight locations covering 2,732 m² in Dob Thmor Changkran village, Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, along with five reservoirs. District police chief Yuk Sarath led the operation. Commune police chief In Savuth described tracking methods: "we looked for signs in the forest, footprints and traces of people walking on the rocks." A provincial police report revealed the Bayong Kor mountain range spans four communes in Kirivong district — Preah Bat Choan Chum, Prey Ampok, Som, and Kiri Chung Koh — all near the Vietnamese border and "ideal for growing marijuana and smuggling to Vietnam." Border guard battalion unit 603 conducts regular joint operations. Cumulative 2019–H1 2021 statistics: 97 operations, 443 locations burned, 282 reservoirs destroyed, 80.5 kg dried marijuana confiscated, total cultivated area of 609,687 m² (60.97 hectares).
|source=https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hunt-takeo-marijuana-growers
|part_of_campaign=Cambodia eradication campaigns (2021)
|country=Cambodia
|admin1=Takeo
|admin2=Kirivong
|locality=Dob Thmor Changkran village
|coordinates=10.6441, 104.8715
|growing_region=Southern Cambodia
|growing_area=Kirivong
|agency=Takeo Provincial Police; Kirivong District Police; Border Guard Battalion 603
|hectares=0.2732
}}