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Not sure these were my best, but that was my 2012… 2013, here we come… PEACE…

Oh… Just one more thing you might want to support before I disappear until next year: click here I know: he takes 24 images in one second when I take only one, but he is committed…

All the photographs about the two days of protests in support of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony, labeled ‘Prisoners of Conscience’ by Amnesty International, near the Phnom Penh Municipal Court were uploaded on my website under the story ‘Warning Trials’ at the following URL (click here). I wish what happened to them doesn’t happen to […]

Some 40 members of the Boeung Kak Lake community (here and here), wearing signs saying ‘Cambodian Hunger for Justice’, marched to Wat Phnom to pray and give a press conference after yesterday’s condemnation (see here) of their fellow activist Yorm Bopha, accused of assault and sentenced to 3 years in prison. Yesterday was a tough […]

The supporters from the Borei Keila (see here) and Boeung Kak Lake (see here and here) communities gathered again in front of the police barricade set up on the access road to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the second day (see the first day here on my Tumbl’r page) of the trial of Yorm […]

The trial of Tim Sakmony (from the Borei Keila community) and Yorm Bopha (from the Boeung Kak Lake community) took place at the Phnom penh Municipal Court this afternoon, with some 250 supporters facing the police at one end of the blocked road. Both accused spent more than 114 days in pre-detention and were declared […]

On this day, 8 years ago, a Tsunami hit the Indonesian coastline of Banda Aceh. The estimated death toll for Indonesia alone was nearly 170,000 dead. Also 500,000 people were displaced, making the island the worst hit by the third most powerfull earthquake ever recorded. I only managed to arrive in Banda Aceh on January […]

Phnom Penh is a crowded city. A real organic city: growing, evolving, adapting spontaneously with its inhabitants. Unlike many developed countries, and still for now, most Cambodians have their roots in a rural environment, subject to the laws of mother nature. The migrants coming to the capital adapt quickly to the concrete and disorder, leaving […]