A bag of rice, a tarp and good luck…
Ms. Suy Sophan, head of the Phanimex company, who promised to build 10 appartment buildings for an on-site relocation at Borei Keila and finally only built 8 of them, this monday paid and organised (with the help of police, employees and guards) a rice distribution to the people she had violently evicted a few days ago and sent off to the forced relocation site at Phnom Bat… I’m just speculating, but she is probably convinced that she did what she had to do and that ‘her poor’ are happy now, 45 Km from their previous home, grinding the dust between their teeth, having to start their life from scratch… Hell, in her generous mood she even offered me two loafs of bread (which I politely declined)…
Monday’s pictures were added to the ‘Cambodia: Borei Keila Relocation’ story…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Bat, Oudong (Kandal). 9/01/2012: Evicted Borei Keila residents at forced relocation site, 45 Km from their previous home.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Bat, Oudong (Kandal). 9/01/2012: Ms. Suy Sophan, Head of Phanimex, company developing the Borei Keila site and responsible for the eviction of its community at rice distribution at forced relocation site, 45 Km from Pnom Penh.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Bat, Oudong (Kandal). 9/01/2012: People at rice distribution by Phanimex, the company developing the Borei Keila site and responsible for its eviction to forced relocation site.