From the story Svans in Georgia… In Western culture All Saints Day is traditionally a time to remember the deceased. As it turns out I seem to have quite a few pictures relating to funerals and rituals related to the deceased. In the following posts I will take you to different parts of the world […]
About 50 people who were evicted from Borei Keila on January 3d and who managed to stay in Phnom Penh gathered in front of the US embassy, from where they staged a demonstration taking them to the National Assembly via the tourist spots on Sisowath Quay. They were prevented by the police to pass next […]
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 […]
The Borei Keila eviction story, all the way back from 2007 until last friday, is on my website… Yet another eviction to add to the seemingly never-ending Cambodian issue of land-grabbings which I covered for the last 11 years. See here… Web-designer Robert Starkweather, writer Robert Carmichael and myself are working on an iApp about […]
This friday, two days after their eviction, many people from Borei Keila still do not have the means to even build a decent shelter. The arrogance of those responsible for the eviction prevents their stuffed brain from providing the most basic needs to those they deprived from everything, from living up to their word and […]
120 evicted Borei Keila families are dumped behind Oudong, not far from the stupas of the Cambodian kings. But 45 Km from their initial home. They join those who were evicted last November. There are two wells. For more than 120 families? Yes… And there is nothing else but dust and a blazing sun. LICADHO […]
Yesterday’s eviction left a very bad taste. The more than 300 families whose house was destroyed on the 3rd are hanging around on the site. A fence is being installed around the land. A big police force came in to push those present to put their belongings on trucks bound for some crappy piece of […]