Circling Boeung Kak Lake
The sand pumped into Boeung Kak Lake by development company Shukaku Inc. has now reached the North Western edge of the lake, forcing even more families out of their homes. And these are homes made out of bricks and stone, not just timber and tin sheets. Compensation: 8500$… Another compensation: the house where some of company’s security guards were living was also evacuated (with trucks from the municipal police…).
Only the Northern and the Eastern side of the lake remain free of sand.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 25/12/2010: Workers destroying houses from Boeung Kak Lake who agreed on eviction terms with developing company Shukaku Inc. Some 4000 families will be evicted by the filling of the lake by Shukaku Inc.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 25/12/2010: Floods caused by the filling of the Boeung Kak Lake by development company Shukaku Inc. reaches the houses on the N.W. edge of the lake.