Last year I started thinking about a project called ‘On the Edge’, about people who need just a little incident in their life to be dragged into the spiral of destitution and poverty. I worked on it for a while and put it aside, waiting for a better mindset. This sunday I tried to get [...]
The Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila communities tried to put pressure on the donor countries which were having their annual meeting with the Cambodian Government. Basically they were saying: ‘Link the amount of money you are promising to improvements on the Human Rights situation’… In 2011 about 1/3 of the annual budget came from [...]
Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila held a cursing ceremony in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, requesting the release of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakhmony, detained at Prey Sar prison. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
One night only. But even with bad weather Kep is a breather…
Is it the organisation? Is it the heat? Is it a lack of time? Is it fear? Is it authorities’ harassment? Or is it a lack of interest? International World Peace Day assembled barely 200 people at the Preah Ang Dong Kheo pagoda in front of the Royal Palace, listening to speeches by representatives of [...]
Some 50 residents from Boeung Kak Lake, avoiding the road block set up by the police in their area, went by tuk-tuk to the proximity of the European Union and the World Bank to deliver yet another petition. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp [...]
The Boeung Kak Lake community found the time, after yesterday’s commemoration, to organise a tour of the Embassies to deliver a petition requesting the release of Yorm Bopha and Borei Keila‘s Tim Sakhmony. To symbolise their right to a decent housing they wore nests with eggs on their head. But the police was there again [...]
One year ago, excavators and bulldozers, protected by police forces, destroyed several houses from the Boeung Kak Lake community. Today the community commemorated the event with a religious ceremony and by burning puppets, representing corrupt officials, copiously stuffed with fake 100$ bills and spoonfulls of sand. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for [...]
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