Boeung Kak on the Embassies tour…
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 to prevent the community to leave its nest as it had set up a blockade at the exit road of Boeung Kak. It took at least 30 minutes of yelling and pleading before they were allowed to cross the blockade, as long as it happened in tuk-tuks and not on foot.
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/09/2012: Boeung Kak Lake community preparing to deliver a petition to free Yorm Bopha, jailed at Prey Sar prison. They carry a birds’ nest as a hat to symbolise their right to a decent habitat. Boeung Kak Lake has been under the threat of an eviction since 2008.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/09/2012: Boeung Kak Lake community preparing to deliver a petition to free Yorm Bopha, jailed at Prey Sar prison. They carry a birds’ nest as a hat to symbolise their right to a decent habitat. Boeung Kak Lake has been under the threat of an eviction since 2008.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/09/2012: Boeung Kak Lake community preparing to deliver a petition to free Yorm Bopha, jailed at Prey Sar prison. They carry a birds’ nest as a hat to symbolise their right to a decent habitat. Boeung Kak Lake has been under the threat of an eviction since 2008.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/09/2012: Boeung Kak Lake community, trying to deliver a petition at the U.S. Embassy to free Yorm Bopha, jailed at Prey Sar prison. They carry a birds’ nest as a hat to symbolise their right to a decent habitat. Boeung Kak Lake has been under the threat of an eviction since 2008.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/09/2012: Boeung Kak Lake community, trying to deliver a petition at the British Embassy to free Yorm Bopha, jailed at Prey Sar prison. They carry a birds’ nest as a hat to symbolise their right to a decent habitat. Boeung Kak Lake has been under the threat of an eviction since 2008.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/09/2012: Boeung Kak Lake community, trying to deliver a petition at the British Embassy to free Yorm Bopha, jailed at Prey Sar prison. They carry a birds’ nest as a hat to symbolise their right to a decent habitat. Boeung Kak Lake has been under the threat of an eviction since 2008.