It is not enough to have your house with all its belongings flattened down brutally by a development company: in Cambodia you also may have to face a trial because the company who grabbed your land filed a complaint against you for violent behaviour. Verdict on February 16th… CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 11/02/2009: Dey Krohom evicted […]
Chan Sopheak, 26 yrs, will have to wait a litle more before he knows if he will have to serve his full sentence of 15 years for the murder of trade unionist Ros Sovannareth on May 7th 2004. He appeared in front of the appeals Court after having spent nearly four years in jail. His […]
An aide to Prime Minister Hun Sen arranged for a meeting between the evicted from Dey Krohom and representatives of 7NG company and the municipality at 8:00am at the 7NG office. Guess who showed up and guess who didn’t? CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 10/02/2009: Dey Krohom evicted in front of 7NG office. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 10/02/2009: […]
The 50 or so evicted families from Dey Krohom who still refuse the offer done by 7NG company of a small house at 20Km from Phnom Penh, tried to get in touch with Prime Minister Hun Sen by staying in front of his house in Takmau. They arrived at 7:45am. The Prime Minister left at […]
Spent some time at Bophana Center. Set up by filmmaker Rithy Panh, the center is dedicated to reassembling Cambodia’s memory. The visual and audio documents related to Cambodia have been destroyed or scattered during the Khmer Rouge regime, and a country without a past cannot rebuild itself. Someone (yes, you too) who has pictures, movies […]
Press conference at Group 78 this morning. They are some kind of survivors from the Sambok Chap eviction a few years back and were nearly swept away that time. Now that Dey Krohom is gone, they are really isolated in a sea of developing real estate, caught between the new city of Koh Pich, the […]
The Dey Krohom people staged a demo in front of the 7NG headquarters, adjacent to the land they were evicted from. Not many people showed up. Nearly as many NGO’s as demonstrators. Everyone photographing everyone. A car from the US Embassy slowly passed by with a (khmer) policeman next to the driver taking pictures.
Many people evicted from Dey Krohom are still waiting to be assigned a home by 7NG company… CAMBODIA. Damnak Trayoung (Phnom Penh). 3/02/2009: Evicted from Dey Krohom waiting to be assigned a home promised by 7NG company. CAMBODIA. Damnak Trayoung (Phnom Penh). 3/02/2009: Child playing in town built by 7NG company for the evicted from […]